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Originally posted by footguy
Therein lies the problem KingFish.
We leave our houses every day thinking that if we don't steal, kill or hurt someone that we will be ok....just the very basic stuff.
You want to stream video so you go and buy an MS product or buy a REAL server. Where are you told that you may be held responsible if you use their system to stream video? Would it not be their responsibility to let you know if such a thing existed?
I am not at all questioning whether or not Acacia has a legal claim. I simply do not know. That could go either way. But to pull this out of the blue so many years after streaming started and to ask for retroactive damages is ridiculous. Especially when you were never told.
As for free site/TGP owners yes you may be able to get off the hook more easily it seems. Not being a lawyer I repeat..it SEEMS.
Long term you will be left with fewer and fewer sponsor choices, less innovation and higher and higher site prices. Think of what that means. It means two things:
1. Free sites will eventually have to close.
2. It means they want to return to the days when only a select few were producing any kind of adult content so as to control the hell out of them.
Just when the "big guys" start feeling comfortable, having gotten out of the Acacia thing, there will be yet another wave to further dilute them.
I sincerely believe this is yet another attempt from much much higher up than Acacia.
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I agree that intellectual property law is screwed up. It is all weighed towards big business, it favors them and it is unfair. That is what they payed their lobbyists to get. The US law has always required the citizen to know the law. How does the old saying go ?ignorance of the law isn?t a defense to it? or something like that. I also believe it is a dirty, underhanded thing to do, squeezing free site webmasters, (95% of which) probably make under $500 per-month, but just because it is slimy underhanded and dirty doesn?t mean it is illegal. Big business is brutal lawsuits fly around all of the time. If you don?t like the system you have to vote the big business goons out. (BTW: they are in both political parties)