There was meeting some months back where in the room were some named in this thread and more. The unity to fight this is what willultimately allow the plantiff to crumble. The fighting spirit in that room that day was truly something to marvel.

Good Luck and God speed

This section of the article is particularly interesting. Looks like they've lost their previous court cases:

"DMT isn't the only technology by which Acacia has stepped toward what its critics call "profit by litigation." The company also acquired the V-Chip technology when it bought out SoundView Technologies. Almost immediately, Acacia launched similar patent-infringement claims involving the V-Chip, according to the Orange County Register. Those claims led to more than a dozen television manufacturers paying the one-time licensing fee, filling Acacia?s coffers with some $24.1 million in 2001 revenues, the Register said - a whopping jump from $100,000 in revenue the year before.

Other television manufacturers went to court - and Acacia lost. The Register said in December that the company is working an antitrust case claiming the winning manufacturers "colluded" to duck V-Chip licensing fees."

According to the AVN article, Global Reach is one of the companies that settled and entered into a licensing agreement with Acacia. :(

Proud to say that Matrix has stepped up to fight this with us.

Many thanks to those who will help with donations because I know this fight will be expensive... but much more so of course if Acacia prevails!

At the risk of cheesy spam, but with due sincerity under the circumstances, supporting any of the companies in the new defense organization by being a customer or becoming one is greatly appreciated. These companies are protecting all of you from having to pay as well. Remember, Acacia wants our customer lists so they can charge you a licensing fee too!!!

If you want to support the content companies that do license to Acacia, then please don't be surprised when you get a little package that spells out what you are supposed to pay a company called Acacia.

I will make sure to announce each and every company that is spending their hard earned money to defend all of us in this matter and I am always available if anyone has questions about becoming part of the solution here. (Farrell 206-391-6509)


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Good on you man, I have a lot of respect for your company if your willing to put yourself and your money on the line for setting such a large standard for the rest of us. We should all support Homegrownvideo.

Give them hell!

They name the 8 adult companies who have agreed to pay their licensing fees.

Man it seems such a waste of alot of money that each company will have to fight the same lawsuit on its own. Once one suit is underway can't a lawyer go to a judge and ask him to delay a case until the first case is concluded? Seems practical to me, save the taxpayer money and resources too.

How will the fund to help raise money for legal defense be set up? Like if Homegrown is fighting in California, at the same time Lightspeed could be fighting the same suit in Arizona. So who gets the money from the fund to help pay legal costs?

Read the article, look how much they want those greedy parasites - not just a simple licensing fee of say $2500 or even $25,000 a year - they want a percentage of GROSS revenues - in this business that would be insane, not even worth being in business if Acacia was allowed a % of gross sales.

good luck Homegrowners

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hopefully some of the larger sites on the net back you. we need to beat these fuckers because once they get a judgement going their way, the shit will hit the fan and it won't be pretty.

if they went after microsoft, bill gates would probably just buy out the company.

can someone fill me in on what exactly their patents include? they say there's alternative technologies that sites can use. what would these be?

who the hell is global reach? just need to make sure we're not inadvertently sending them traffic, money, etc..etc..

any idea who they do business as?

xxx.com

diff from the last tiem I saw it...

what else do they run?

freehost.xxx.com I think and rankhigh.com ?

Maybe you should keep an eye out on how this case goes: http://reuters.com/financeNewsArticl...toryID=2295555

Everyone will have to come to California to fight it unless they want to spend heavily to bring it local. The idea of the group is to share the burden of the defense as much as possible.

I am not an attorney and cannot speculate on what the court will do but I do know that big stupid cases that clog the courts have a tendency to piss off judges who would rather not waste time either. The court in Orange County, so I have heard, is already overwhelmed with cases and tries hard to achieve time saving strategies. Maybe there will be a stay on the other cases, I hope, but I don't know for sure.

We hope that Lightspeed will join us. I don't think any company would want to take something like this on alone. Conservative estimates for fighting all the way through on this run in the millions.

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