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Originally posted by Choker
After they publicly state they will not seek payment from me? Besides it would be up to a jury to decide if it is or not.
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If you read the question that was asked.
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YNOT NEWS: As far as affiliate Webmasters are concerned, what if a free adult site uses video that is hosted by a sponsor company? Does the sponsor company need a patent to cover themselves as well as the free sites that have teaser videos hosted by the sponsors? Is that what you are talking about with your affiliate license?
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What they were saying is that they were choosing not to go after free sites at that time. It doesn?t put them under any obligation not to go after free sites at some point the future. I think the idea was that they would get all of the sponsors to sign-up, and then the affiliates could not be inducing infringement because the sponsor was licensed. However, when most of the sponsors don?t sign up you have to look to easier pickings. Furthermore,
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Free adult entertainment sites that do use our technology to stream audio / video content on their free sites and also send traffic from those sites to affiliate programs do need a license.
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So in other words their theory (based upon what other people that have free sites and received letters have posted in here) is if your free site is linking to another free site that is directly infringing by streaming video off their own domain then you are inducing their infringement by sending them traffic. Did they ever say they wouldn?t publically seek payment from you if you linked to a non-sponsor site that was a direct infringer? Even if they did that is an unenforceable promise that doesn?t mean much in court.