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Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
Do you mean that if you download a video game they will claim that it violates their patent?
What about playing video games that have audio online?
Do they claim they hold the rights to those things as well?
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I have talked to a webmaster who was speaking with Acacia, and the issue of having audio/video in a software program that would be downloaded from a web server, was claimed by them.
As I have been posting, Acacia has broadly interpreted their patent to mean what they want it to me, not what it actually means...so they will try every intimidating angle to convince webmasters to license.
AUdio/video in software is clearly not covered by the patent language, and should Acacia decide to sue any company over this angle, they would knocked down so fast..... audio in computer programs goes WAY back before 1990.
Fight the Interpretations!