received a second package from *cacia today
 

apparently even more swank than the one i already have (i haven't been able to look at the new one myself yet).

their presentation costs must be going through the roof :)

shocked and flawed

this fight will make or break them and they know it.

fuckers are going down.

btw quiet, im upping you some BVSC..cheers

so how exactly are they targeting you given your canadian status?

I prefer fruit of the loom.

Bullshit.

Good question?

underwear is for losers....free ballin is the life baby :thumbsup

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

probably they noticed your new signature :(

That sucks quiet. Keep trudging along, do your thing.....When I get mine, I will do the same. Fuck em.

quiet, are you going to give in to their tough attempts at bullying now? Two letters must be twice as scary. :1orglaugh

I bet they actually thought the adult industry would be a bunch of pussies.

Too bad for them.

i'm not really sure. i assume they check high traffic sites like the hun and track down every domain being linked. very easy to do. i was actually one of the first to be contacted, so you've got to laugh at all the hype about Canada being some sort of haven.

Cheers TDF... you mentioned Miles in another thread, I was thinking of uploading some too :)

They dont have a patent in Canada. So it is a haven. We are a Canadian company and therefore are not breaking any US patent laws.

On top of that......Canada does not have a patent treaty with the US. You will find that is so "in the package".

it's strange... I mean are they just hoping that people that don't need to sign up do so because they aren't aware they have no patent in that particular country? I find this to be a confusing issue, but it fits in with their modus operandi.

do you process in the US? if you aren't a paysite, do you use a US sponsor for your income? Do you host in the US? Do you do traffic deals in the US (or any country that they do hold a patent in)?

lol

unless you are some sort of floating entity, they will get you where it hurts (if they are allowed to win).

promoting a US sponsor that isn't doing anything illegal in your own locale isn't a canadian's problem. It's like saying the hun is liable for the beast stuff he promotes because it's illegal in the US.. not so - it's ok for the netherlands.

the only thing i think they could get you on would be hosting. don't get me wrong im not saying they're not bloody minded enough to try get you on everything but most people should be able to swat the rest of it down pretty easily. Don't take this as downplaying the threat, just trying to rationalise the situation.

uh, how are you promoting the sponsor? through text?

if you are using video to push a US sponsor, you have a problem.

talk to a laywer.

I doubt posting screen caps of ibill earnings helped keep them away!!

or worse, having your site linked just below every single post you make!

Photoshopped! :helpme

im not doing that - as a hypothetical though, I don't see how it would make you liable. I looked into patenting a product, nothing to do with the internet and this situation, but you're basically pretty screwed if someone in an area not covered by the patent is pushing it. You can go after someone in your legal duristriction and try and stop them from infringing on it, but some barely affiliated third party in thailand pushing the product the infringing company created?? maybe I wasn't approaching it from the stance of having millions of dollars to waste scaring people..

*sigh*.. maybe it is time to talk to a lawyer about what we can and can't do as foreign entities.

Servers are certainly located inside the USA therefore you can't break patents inside the USA. Its like that beastiality is legal in the Neatherlands but you sure don't see any beast sites hosted in the US now do you??

Sure you do. Bestiality isn't actually illegal in most states!

This could be the mistke they made, there must be international laws governing the restriction of free trade. Do they have the right to stop non US companies trading, if they are not based in the STates, hosted in the States or money is processed in the States can they legally stop us?

If a US webmaster buys from us who is breaking the law him or us?

Those states just prosecute you on charges of animal cruelty instead. PETA is after you ;-)

All the money Fantasy Man is giving them is paying for those nices packages.

"Acacia also recently entered into License and Settlement Agreements with adult content providers Babenet Ltd. and White Sands Communications Inc., bringing the total number of licensees of Acacia's DMT technology to twenty seven (27)."

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030716/165180_1.html

What now? Use another format? Quicktime, Real audio vivo or do they have rights to anything that streams?

And all the money he's giving the IMPA is going to help bring them down. :winkwink: