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Originally posted by keyman
US patent 5,132,992 does not cover streaming audio and/or visual information because a subset of the invention, which is actually a process, states that a complete copy of the audio and/or visual information must be stored on the receiving system.
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Acacia's patent does cover the use of streaming audio or video, but only for pre-recorded stuff.. not live.
A pre-recorded file exists on the server, and is served up by a server that communicates to a client software to view/listen to the digitized file.
Downloading an AVI, MP3, etc using an apache web server helps to distribute the file, so that's also covered by their (aburd) patent claims.
If you have live audio/video like a net radio site or live broadcasting, you are not infringing.
BUT, if you have archived footage, you are...
Fight the Patent!