acacia & the federal trade commission
 

From: http://www.extremetech.com/print_art...a=34898,00.asp

Acacia reportedly began laying out its intellectual-property strategy in May 2002, which appears remarkably similar to the path taken by memory technology company Rambus Inc., which convinced smaller memory firms to license its technology. Rambus' progress was essentially stopped short by larger firms, who exposed some of the company's legally questionable business practices and prompted an FTC investigation.

Should we complain to the FTC?
If everyone complains im sure they'd take alook at it, but is this a good idea or not?

FTC Consumer Complaint Form:
https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

Good idea

Good idea... specially if u get some mainstream companies complaining. :winkwink:

Great idea. What do you have to lose?

... errr, could you please wait another 6 month, cause I just bought some shares today.

Once again, being offensive instead of defensive paid off.

What about the radio and other streaming type providers that are non adult that have been hit up by acacia?

Where do they bitch about acacia, lets go let em know :)

Thats a good idea,

I know for a fact if the FTC gets massive amounts of complaints at a certain period of time they take action really fast

They would also have a monopoly wouldn't they? I would love to see them try to enforce their patents against some of the goverment/military insititutions useing "their" technology. We could be looking at the next microsoft anti-trust suit.

These fuckers deserve to burn.

A pretty big monopoly. According to their patent, they pretty much own the internet. I wonder if theyre going after Kazaa and other forms of file transfers.

From a cool article i read:
Acacia's claims, they are asserting that they own the rights to two basic ideas:

1) Media (video, audio, images, text, etc.) stored in one location, encoded and transmitted digitally over some medium (telephone, cable TV, broadcast, etc.), and then decoded and reproduced at one or more other locations. This covers not just the transmission of online porn over the net, but also downloading and playing mp3 files, reading webpages, watching digital TV (whether over cable, satellite, or broadcast), sending faxes, using answering machines or services, baby monitors (if they buffer and encode video and/or audio digitally), pagers, etc.

2) A user at one location selecting media that is stored at a remote location for transmission to the user's location. If you've ever viewed a website (ooops, too late for you already) or logged onto a remote computer, you've used "technology" that Acacia claims is theirs and you are liable for royalty payments.

A patent, by definition, is a government issued monopoly.

Got my pretty purple Acacia packet today and plan on making a nice complaint to the FTC...any ideas on what exactly to say to them so they'll take us seriously?

Just link to a GFY thread, that should be pretty reputable.

smart thinking...:BangBang:

I am starting a small claims action first thing tomorrow then i will follow up with an official complaint from our companies attorneys to the FTC. Also sending a donation to Spike at HomeGrown Video to help the cause

I will be contacting as many webmasters as possible to get them to do the same thing. One way or another these assholes are going down.

if we all take them to court at the same time they wont be able to show and they will lose->

Monopoly... hmmm, The judges in Europe will NEVER allow that :Graucho

NOW you guys are catching on! :)

bingo!

that's what I call
THINK OUT OF THE BOX!
;-)))

They tried filing here in Canada.......but the patent office here could see through it like clean glass. And they did not get a patent.

I am sure that in time.....the US Patent office will overturn the patent.

considering how well find what has done i'm sure you can eat the losses heh