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Originally posted by Tylo
One thing I would like to know is the software we have made... CommChat is using Flash Comm. server and to the best of my knowledge from a good source from Macromedia people buying software from Macromedia cant in now way be effected by there bullshit calms because Acacia would have to go after Macromedia before they would go after the person using the technology and I don't think Acacia has to balls to do that..
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I don't see that as the case.. i see that Macromedia makes a server piece, much like an Apache web server, or a streaming server, that is a piece in the puzzle for delivery of audio/video.
In going by Acacia's DMT patent claims:
-Content - you have some audio or video to include
-Digitized - you convert it into digital form
-Compress - you include the A/V file in flash
-Storage - it's stored on a server and served up with either HTTP or the flash server
-Transmission - the remote user access a remote server to download the content
-Playback - the user listens/views the content
Macromedia can't be sued for infringement for making a piece of the process.. the whole point of the patent is it's broadness and absurd interpretation.
Now if Macromedia included content on their site, ie a demo, a sample, etc.. that had A/V.. then they would be infringing.. because the last piece of the process is the addition of content.. which they would have now had on their website.
Fight the Broadness!