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  • Amputate Your Head
    There can be only one
    • Aug 2001
    • 39075
    #1

    New interpretation of Acacia patents

    After careful review, they've decided that merely linking to another site that provides video or links to yet another site that may or may not provide video is simply too narrow.

    It has been determined that since you are capable of purchasing a computer from any number of retailers and therefore are enabled with the ability to connect to the Internet and possibly register a domain name that you could conceivably put unlicensed video on in the future, and hence, if you are breathing you are liable to Acacia for patent infringement.
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    • SetTheWorldonFire
      Confirmed User
      • Feb 2002
      • 7444
      #2
      I thought there was no double dipping
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        • Amputate Your Head
          There can be only one
          • Aug 2001
          • 39075
          #3
          i don't know anything about double dipping, but they've damn sure been dipping into the LSD when they sent me a letter.
          SIG TOO BIG

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            • triumph
              Confirmed User
              • Dec 2002
              • 3433
              #4
              Originally posted by Amputate Your Head
              After careful review, they've decided that merely linking to another site that provides video or links to yet another site that may or may not provide video is simply too narrow.

              It has been determined that since you are capable of purchasing a computer from any number of retailers and therefore are enabled with the ability to connect to the Internet and possibly register a domain name that you could conceivably put unlicensed video on in the future, and hence, if you are breathing you are liable to Acacia for patent infringement.
              ACACIA = legal extortion

              I think they have some balls, trying to sue everyone, and I also think someone big is backing them! I mean someone like microsoft, aol, etc...

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                • Dawgy
                  Confirmed User
                  • Jul 2001
                  • 5856
                  #5
                  considering some of the people in this industry,
                  im really surprised those guys are even still alive.
                  the revolution is coming.

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                    • Dildozer
                      Confirmed User
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 7519
                      #6
                      I'm curious if i'm gonna get the package, i'm in canada and i never touched video before hehehe
                      Spam link here

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                        • DiVo
                          Confirmed User
                          • Jun 2003
                          • 153
                          #7
                          I am no lawyer, but the Sony v. MPAA (aka Betamax Case) implemented a test that if there is significant non-infringing use then there is no censure.

                          Contributory infringement is not necessarily enough. With the DMCA, rules have changed a little in that there may or may not be recourse if it is easy to remove the infringing part of the program. This is where it gets really shady (i.e. grokster and other P2P cases).

                          I still cannot fathom how they could convince a judge that you can't link to third parties that may or may not infringe. Of course that is what they ruled in the 2600 case with the link to the DeCSS case.

                          I don't know if any of this changes anything. That is why there are judges and the appeals courts.

                          The central issue is always going to be that the patents ARE legal until they fail in court. All of these small but significant legal isuues would melt away if the patents were thrown out.
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