this is all about finding prior art to help abolish this silly ass patent.
btw does anyone have a patent on sending data packets from point A to point B? wouldn?t Acacia be infringing on that patent?
anyhow.. back to prior art..
alot of us were commodore or Atari users and most of us know that those computers at the time blew away anything that was on the pc.
we all at some point d/l some software off a bbs, tymnet, compuserv, portal, or even early ftp access.
the prob is tracking down what files where avail, when they where avail and if they are still around or could find someone to testify towards the defense.
I have a few things im looking at that have video/audio in them.
check out google groups as well, their their news feed goes back to 1980 something and there are lots of threads talking about people on the amiga d/ling demos or such that had video or audio in them.
I think someone should get a blurb on
www.slashdot.org about all of this and the search for prior art, there is nothing like the power of slashdot to take down a server or find information.
if anyone is good at writing up stuff submit a article to slashdot about FTP (fight the patent) not file transfer protocol
its not time to sit back and watch what happens its time to use all your google skills you learned to find prior art.
from my understanding this could be any sort of digital video or audio sample that COULD be d/l from another source (bbs etc)
im sure brandon can make it alot clearer.
there is alot of stuff out there, and its before the year 1990, just think of this as the ultimate scavenger hunt that will eventually help our community out.