Ok guys there have been a few posts about this before?so who wants to work together??
I talked to an attourney and from the intial look over it sounds like the best thing to do is work as a group to investigate the valitidity of these patents and prepare a defense against these guys.
This is something that not only effects content providers but anyone who is delivering video over the internet.
Acacia is probably well orchestrated in shaking down people in our position and have been through this many times. If they sue, the defense mostly likely will cost tens of thousands of dollars. Fighting this alone could put some out of business or force us to change the way we do business (unless of course you pay them their fee, which I an not willing NOT do).
Anyone who wants to participate in the group effort will obviously have to contribute money for the attorney and possibly time to help research things to help keep the costs down of having the attorney do it for us. Once we know who is going to particicpate we can talk as a group about what we need to do to proceed and how things should be distributed.
Those who want to particpate please email or icq me.
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