I just learned that some guys in our industry(I won't mention any names) Pay Acacia 10k a month!!!
I almost died when i heard this!!!
They know they can get away with it!!

Why won't you mention names?
If you tell the truth, they can't touch you.

*bump*



I wonder what those who've settled with Acacia think when they read a letter like the one Choker posted.

We must support each other and the fight against Acacia or it may be too late :thumbsup

Keep this thread bumped and everyone donate a few thousand dollars!

I'm worried about this and will donate as much as I can..It's a shame the little guys have to put in their hard earned dollars to try to fight this...I know it is a business decision for the bigger companies but we sure could have used their support to try and fight them

so that email addy is set up to accept paypal??

I guess so. I sent money, the email arrived a while later that said the money was received by him.

Have at it :D

Bump for a good cause.

I will donate 100$ today.

Lensman instead of see all these bump you could put this thread in the top of GFY for 1 weeks. For a good cause.

Check this out Lens

Rockbear

Charly boy. I don't question your motives, I question your intelligence. I don't ally myself with the stupid. Thats the only reason I avoid you.:thumbsup

Just a bump for an important issue to many.

bump to stop the evil empire

Lensman... Can we pin this.

We, you, everyone needs this

bump

Who should donate?


Program owners - yes
program admins - yes
affiliate webmasters - yes
content providers - yes
content models - yes
designers - yes
programmers - yes


Basically, if you are affiliated with the adult industry in any way you need to donate. If you're sitting there thinking you are only a small fish and will remain unaffected by this Acacia issue, wake up and think again.

Losing is not an option. I urge everyone to make a donation to this cause, be it ten bucks or $500+... whatever your budget will allow I'm sure will help the cause no matter what. Don't sit by and let others fight the cause while you do nothing.

Donating now . . we dont have much money . .but Mr. Goldberg is 100% correct. I'll give anything i can.

So is it OK to use that Paypal address?

It worked fine for me. Go for it. :thumbsup

If we don't beat Acaccia, and beat them bad, we encourage every jackass out there with a broad patent.

bump for kicking the shit out of Acaccia.

Chocker - where is the site you are setting up?

Spike - if you need anything from me let me know.








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James

ICQ: 21267736
[email protected]

...and Acacia themselves are only just getting into their stride:

"June 15, 2004--Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTG - News; Nasdaq:CBMX - News) announced today that its Acacia Media Technologies Corporation subsidiary has filed a Complaint in the District Court for the Northern District of California alleging infringement of Acacia's DMT patents against 9 cable and satellite companies. Companies named as defendants in the lawsuit include Comcast Corporation, Charter Communications, Inc., The DirectTV Group, Inc., Echostar Communications Corporation, Boulder Ridge Cable TV, Central Valley Cable TV, LLC, Seren Innovations, Inc., Cox Communications, Inc., and Hospitality Network, Inc"

All funded in part by the companies that settled with them...

We have just donated $500.

If you haven't donated yet, go and do something about it.

Acacia's stock plummeted from the high $6 to $3.88 today.

My summary of the Markman Order:

http://www.fightthepatent.com/v2/Mar...erSummary.html




Support the defense group!


Fight the Forty Pages!

Damn I see why it takes so many hours to fight these fuckers... That case is complicated and very very extensive.

Keep up the great work :thumbsup