Acacia sues Club Jenna
 

Court documents were filed on 12/18 against Club Jenna Inc. by Acacia.



Additional lawsuits filed against:

Orgasm.com
Webpower Inc.
Cybernet Ventures
Global AVS
ICS Inc.
National A-1 Advert



In addition, Acacia is proposing to the judge to allow for 2 class action lawsuits that cover the entire adult industry.

At InterNext, on Jan 5th (monday) at 4pm, Spike, Gregory Clayman, and I will be discussing how patents affect businesses and what can businesses do.


This should really get interesting.



Fight the Suits!

National A-1 Advert - What is this just an advert where they used streaming video? Sorry for being stupid but I am....

i think this can be officially the end of acacia


Is Meni still the webmaster of clubjenna?

Doing a quick search, they run free.com

based in Philly.

Not sure if they have an adult side to them...anyone know if they do?



Fight the Cheapos!

They definitely taking on the wrong people. National A-1 can and probably will get the best lawyers in the biz to fight this.

Just going on 'advert'... it sounds like they're going to try and go after hyperlinks now. rotfl

And now they got General Dynamics which makes lots of military things, odds are ol Dubya is going to be ticced that one of his toy factories is being messed with. :Graucho

what sites do they run?



Fight the Wrong!

They own one of the best, if not the best domain portfolios on the web.
singles.com, sextoys.com , girls.com , guys.com , ladies.com, slaves.com , celebrities.com, cash.com and hundreds of other top names.

I can see why: http://www.gdc4s.com/PressReleases/G...s_10-29-02.htm


They are into Video on Demand.



Fight the dub-dub-dub!

Cash.com is an adult program.

The other names are big! and isn't ICS the owner of this board?

Realisticly here it comes

Nobody of those guys is going to fight them, they are going to settle for yearly contracts of a lower number so Acacia can put them on their DONE list.

Its cheaper to pay 10k per year for a license fee than pay 1 Mil. to fight a Patent

Yup, it's their adult program..

Yes. I think so anyway.

be interesting what some of these companies getting sued now do. Even though acacia says the introductory rates are gone, I think some of these big ones will still be given sweethearts as a last ditch effort to try and seem credible.

A company doesn't have to shoulder the financial burden of fighting alone.... there is a Defense Fund of the CURRENT 11 defendants to pool their money.

No company should think they have to fight alone...that is the part of the intimidation being put out to convince webmasters to settle.

The CURRENT defendants will start their court proceedings on Feb 6th.

I am sure these new defendants have already contacted Spike to learn how they can join their Defense Fund, and be able to defend their companies as well as all other webmasters, by banding together as a united front.


No man is an island, and neither are companies.



Fight the References!

Well it depends if these guys join the fight or weazle out like Hustler did.

We either fight Acacia to the finish or you can bet Acacia will squeeze as much money as they can out of us. Then they walk away with a fat profit and the next firm of patent lawyers come knocking on our doors. Will those fighting today, want to fight again?

Remember Acacia are trying to make a profit not protect a patent, they do not stream video or audio nor offer any product connected with streaming. It's about making a profit and if we let them this will all happen again.

Support the licensees and you send money to Acacia,

Sooner or later they need to start making money and stop giving away sweetheart deals.

Hustler's licensing money wasn't part of the $186,000 collected in third quarter as some acacia cheerleaders have stated.

Given that Hustler's internet side makes about $1.3M/month and has non-internet revenue streams of Video on Demand, you would think it me a large spike in revenue for Acacia n 4Q.. but most likely it will be peanuts.

Also remember.....Acacia's DMT patent is not ONLY specific to internet downloads of audio and video.

It also applies to satellite and cable for Video on Demand.. so for all those video based companies that think they are clear of Acacia because they don;t do any internet-based streaming, you are mistaken.



Fight the Supply!

Exactly. I wish the fucking pinheads on this board would get the message not to do business with anyone that capitulated to Acacia's demands.

One of the things acacia has achived is to convince many that you need $1mil or other crazy amounts to fight their patent. Reality is far away and every middle size company has the funds to protect their interests.

If my Auction site works we can pay all the defense costs.

If we boycott the licensees they will have to stand with us.

Acacia are a pip squeak company that somehow have managed to seperate us.

Devide and conquer or United we Win?

bush has 51% controlling stock in Acacia.

I don't see how they can lump the whole adult industry into these two classes...... there is two much deversity and size difference.

Are they trying to lump the TGP owners that they scared to death with letters into one of these categories? or have they decided to leave them out?

Site Content and Design Copyright 1997-2002 ICS, Inc.
ADULT.COM is a Trademark of ICS, Inc.



Now Acacia has gone and done it...

Fight the Oops!

heh, so if ics signs will you all stay on the board

I talked to some mainstream companies, and buying into the Defense Fund for $35K was far more expensive than paying for the bag of peanuts as their licensing fee.

It is "cheaper to keep her"... that's what businesses who are in the startup phase, or making modest revenue are faced with.

I have talked to many that have signed because they had no other choice.

Hopefully with these new lawsuits, some additional big guns will now get involved and we can get this smackdown moving along.



Fight the Elephants!

Imagine Acacia using a link spider to grab all the links in sigs, do an automated WHOIS lookup and fire off junk mail and spam.

I'll let you know when i get one

:Graucho



Fight the Grabbing!

Your information is incorrect, it's Cheney.



Fight the Halleberry!

AVn article from the 22nd about proposed class action lawsuit by Acacia against the adult industry:

http://www.avnonline.com/issues/2003...122203_3.shtml




Fight the Class Warfare!

Isn't Club Jenna part of Hustler? and didn't they already settle? or was I misreading something in another post?

They own some of the best domains online and are serious players in this biz, they have more then 1000 sex and chat lines as well.

Im far too busy right now, but someone must make a list of those who caved, or took sweetheart deals, and then have webmasters who agree not to promote them post their intentions not to promote any companies who cave ... companies need to know that if they cave, they are going down the shitter ... and webmasters, you need to care about this. I will help organize or host this list, or whatever i can do to help it, i just am buried and cant get the ball rolling on it. I think it would be a good idea however to not send your traffic to programs that are funding extorcia, and furthermore to pressure these high profile companies to take a stand.

:2 cents:

translator:

Orgasm.com

Webpower Inc. = Click Cash

Cybernet Ventures = Adult Check

Global AVS = ProAdult

ICS Inc. = adult.com

National A-1 Advert =
singles.com, sextoys.com , girls.com , guys.com , ladies.com, slaves.com , celebrities.com, cash.com



Fight the Engrish!

The court docket shows Club Jenna Inc.

The company may have a close connection to Hustler, but they are an independent company.


Fight the Dependants!

Are you kidding? A-1 is run by Rich Cohen, up in Philly, one of THE biggest players in the biz. His domain portfolio is outstanding and second in quality only to Ricks (Webfather). He has some of the elite adult names.

FTP you missed one, and this is a biggie, watch the stock start the climb now.


Acacia Technologies Licenses Digital Media Transmission Technology to General Dynamics Interactive Corporation

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--12/24/2003--Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTG)(Nasdaq:CBMX) announced today that its Acacia Technologies group has entered into a License Agreement for its Digital Media Transmission ("DMT") technology with General Dynamics Interactive Corporation.

General Dynamics Interactive Corporation's Intrigue(R) Multimedia System delivers digital video-on-demand and high speed Internet access to the lodging industry throughout the world.

Acacia has now entered into 110 license agreements for its DMT technology with companies in the hotel in-room entertainment, e-learning, and online music, movie, and adult entertainment industries.

ABOUT ACACIA RESEARCH CORPORATION

Acacia Research Corporation comprises two operating groups, Acacia Technologies Group and CombiMatrix Group.

The Acacia Technologies group licenses its DMT technology to media and electronics companies. The DMT technology covers the transmission and receipt of digital audio and digital video content, commonly known as audio on-demand, video on-demand, and audio/video streaming, and is supported by 5 U.S. and 17 international patents.

thats a nice list

I am almost certain club jenna is jenna's hehe... she's one of the best business person this industry has... she's the shit :D

STOP FUCKIN' US!!

Fight the Class Warfare!

General Dynamics Interactive settled.. they are not named in a lawsuit...


Fight the Settling!

I like this part...

That contract administration fee - which a licensee will be required to pay only once - will be $500 for the entire month of January 2004. From Feb. 1-29, it will be $750; from March 1-31, $1,000; from April 1-30, $1,250; from May 1-31, $1,500; from June 1-30, $1,750; and, from July 1-31, $2,000.

They can kiss my fat ass.

I promote club Jenna on erotic skins and thumb whore and the stats for that site are with my hustler stats.

Makes you think.... :winkwink:

interesting page

http://www.prontonline.netfirms.com/

That's not creative to copy my tag line

:Graucho

Maybe I should file a patent on the process of signing a message/post with a one-liner that reflects back to the text/context of the message.



Fight the Re-Use!

It makes you think that the same people who decided to settle, than fight, will influence Club Jenna's decision on what to do.



Fight the Tug-of-War!

I hate law suits... I just lost mine against the local chamber for not paying me... but my attorney was an IDIOT. He NEVER argued intelectual property, all he stressed was I did the work and did not get paid... so the judge (another hick, the fucking courtroom is in a strip mall) ruled he said/she said.

On the plus side, he also ruled we each pay our own legal bills... so at least I don't have to pay their legal bills too.

I have to appeal this... did the intelectual property laws change in the last year? I mean I created the artwork for the site.. it is mine right? especially if they never paid me.

allright, who has settled so far, can we come up with a complete list here?

National A-1 Is pretty big they own spanking.com enema.com and several other high profile big name domains. dont really know much about them just know they run some large websites.

O'well In anycase Acacia can eat a cock before they ever see a single dime from this extortion from me. I will remove every movie I have all off all of my websites first. FUCK THEM!

Meni will crush acacia!

As for ICS, no real surprise after some of the plain ass stupid stuff posted on this forum, that they target Lens. Will be interesting to see how many settle.

Take them off? Screw that. Be a man and fight them. If you take them off they win. Sort of like cancelling a vacation because you are afraid of terrorists.

I hope it is a joke :1orglaugh