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Originally posted by TheLegacy
so WTF is with webmasters who dont want to buy live feeds on their site for fear of getting a letter from acacia??
they should be more afraid of movies??
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It is a very difficult and confusing issue that a webmaster faces in thinking of putting any kind of digital audio or video on their website.
While USA Video and SightSound are contenders, they haven't poked their head into the adult biz, so we can put them aside for a bit.
Acacia has definitely shown their hand in trying to target the Adult Industry.
Most people have gone on with biz like business as usual... the defendants against Acacia are still offering video downloads. I have not heard of any new adult-biz websites being targeted for licensing.
Acacia may have their hands full with the current defendants, and also starting to see that the defendants will crush their definitions in the Markman Hearing, so Acacia is focusing more on cable sector.
Does this mean that webmasters should feel relieved and rollout their video offerings? I can't answer that.. there is definitely a risk of them finding more targets.
If you have already been sent a "licensing notice" before, then they have put you on notice in a way. It's questionable whether they can target you for "willfull infringement", but I am sure they would try to intimidate a webmaster with that line of thinking.
Fight the no definitive answers!