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Originally posted by emmanuelle
If one is doing nothing wrong, why sign an agreement to continue doing so?
It's none of their damn business if you are not infringing on their patents.
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exactly correct.
look, acacia either has a valid patent or it does not.
my bet is that their "patent" will be invalidated shortly, as soon as the light of day shines on it.
but let's say it is a valid patent.
what will happen?
first of all:
acacia will not became a business partner to the rest of the world that uses "DMT", that ain't gonna happen.
because that will basically stop the internet as we know it.
and acacia does not "own" the information superhighway. that highway was built be the taxpayers of the United States, and the United States government will not allow the internet to be sabotaged by a bunch of bottom-feeder scammers.
what WILL happen, (if the "DMT" patent is found valid) is a large entity such as SONY, or MICROSOFT, etc. will purchase the "DMT" "patent" and license it's use into the sales price of it's hardware or services.
but there are other issues which make the acacia "patent" less valuable than many thing; the acacia "patent" is not valid all over the world, and there already is an offshore workaround, and the acacia "patent" expires in about 7 years anyway.