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Going after the adult firms was a spectacular miscalculation, according to Greg Piccionelli, an Internet attorney with Los Angeles-based Brull, Piccionelli, Sarno & Vradenburgh, who often represents adult entertainment firms on first amendment issues. "Many of these Internet firms have ties to the larger adult entertainment business, which generates as much as $40 billion each year, more than the entire professional sports industry," he explains. The larger adult firms banded into a coalition and refused to pay. Acacia then initiated patent infringement litigation in the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California against 39 adult entertainment companies.
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