07-20-2004, 10:41 AM
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Forbes: Acacia wanted a fight with the porn industry, now it's got one
"I couldn't be any happier," says E. Michael "Spike" Goldberg, chief executive officer of the company that owns HomeGrownVideo.com, a site featuring videos of amateur performers engaging in sex acts. After being slapped with one of Acacia's lawsuits last year, Goldberg has since become one of its most outspoken opponents, and has helped to make Acacia a rallying cry for opponents of sweeping technology patents.
"Acacia is now on the defensive," Goldberg boasts. "They're fighting for survival. Godzilla got his eye poked."
To help their cause, several porn firms banded together and enlisted Fish & Richardson to defend their case, in addition to trotting out busty porn superstar Jenna Jameson to draw more unwelcome attention on Acacia.
The controversy has inspired a small brushfire of opposition to the patent process, even among agitators outside of porn. Something called the Electronic Frontier Foundation recently named Acacia to its "ten most-wanted patents" list, a rogues' gallery the group describes as "the worst Internet and software-related patents in the U.S." Among Acacia's "crimes against the public domain" are the company's "laughably broad patent" and an "infringement campaign that threatens to chill freedom of expression."
http://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech...720acacia.html
Berman had no idea what he was getting into when he fucked with Spike. 
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