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Originally posted by berg.the.red
think of it another way: everybody is bitching about hustler signing. maybe it was a business decision on acacias part to come and offer hustler a sweetheart deal just so they didn't have to see them in court. "hey Larry --we'll give you a royalty free license for the life of the patent and we'll even give you, say ... $50,000 just to sweeten the pot. o.k. --and we'll give you affiliates too." no hassle for Hustler or acacia. and acacia get's the plus of adding Hustler as another "notch in their belt" ( ohhh --and what a notch they are too ...  ).
but what these companies who settled didn't seem to look past was what happens now that acacia is going after site owners. does every single person running any kind of web site and linking to their program have the "deep pockets" to either fight this thing or pay the license fee ? what happens when 50% or possibly more of the folks running sites say "fuck it" and pull the plug rather than get taken to court and try to fight it or have to try and cough up a license fee ? maybe y`all who settled should have thought about what would happen to your business AFTER an obstacle wasn't presented to the acacia juggernaught and they come along and steamroll the rest of the adult industry. think about what happens the next time some tom, dick or harry comes prancing in with a chunk of other peoples money for backing and waiving around a patent claim. IIRC --didn't somebody just get a patent on pop-ups and other forms of consoles? what are these folks gonna go for ? 2%? 5%? 10% ?! maybe they're watching these acacia proceedings real close just so they can build their list of companies to start approaching ...
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It seems like these bigger companies are looking at the short term affect and not the long term. There is now a backlash at the companies that have signed. Seems like they are just shooting them selves in the foot.