Another GFY related Wired.com article today
 

Web Porn Pushers in Patent Fight

Executives at Acacia Media Technologies say they've got patents on streaming, downloading and just about every other form of delivering movies and sounds electronically.

Now the firm is enforcing its legal claim -- by going after Internet porn pushers.

Twenty-one blue content providers are actively grappling with Acacia in U.S. District Court. Several firms have agreed to settle rather than risk a lengthy, possibly crippling legal battle.

Just last week, adult webmaster affiliate house CECash.com, agreed to license Acacia's patents.

The terms of the deal were not disclosed. But, generally, Acacia has been asking for 1 to 2 percent of a company's gross revenues in return for calling off the wing-tipped attack dogs.


http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59598,00.html

Noah needs to start paying Lens

It's about time someone presented this to the mainstream and made people realize what it's going to mean for everyone if Acacia wins.

I hope those greedy fuckers loose so bad.

Ain't that like blackmail or " protection" ....

blackmale and protection are ok as long as the guy doing is is not italian and has no gold chains

It's interesting that we've had two articles in such short succession. Presumably, someone from Wired happened in here, and realized this is a great place to watch news develop on an important segment of the web industry. I guess we're being watched by the press.

That's basically right. I came to GFY because of the Deepsy mess. But board members convinced me that Acacia was a big deal. So I wrote a second piece about that. It's often how journos find the next story.

nms

patent is to protect a company hard work developping a new technology... and not to protect an idea if im correct...

So the company's technology was never stolen, neither was the idea btw (sat mostly dormant for nearly a decade)...

So Microsoft, Apple, etc.. only thought of a way for people to see video on the internet... And came up with their OWN technology!

we all do

Noah,

Keep the acacia interest on your radar scope. There is a possibility someone like Larry Lessig or the EFF might take this as exactly the test case to reform all of patent law. That side might not develop quickly. Right now Spike and gang are the only significant force to be bearing the standard. I wouldn't be suprised to see Spike get a call from the Stanford center on internet and society of the Berkman Center for Internet Law at Harvard over the next couple of months to join in the fight.

I know it has sounds of delusions of grandeur, but this could be an important case law finding down the road that shifts patent law back to a more Jeffersonian footing.

"So pretty much every website streaming songs, every cable company selling movies-on-demand, and every porno firm digitally dispensing dirty video clips, Berman figures, now owes Acacia money."

Get the fuck outta here with that shit!

BTW - i have a patent on the penis, so all you fuckers owe me money! And i want it all in nickles and dimes! :mad: