[thelist] Patents screw plug-ins

[bruce]

but you know...

for my $0.02 worth... if this were really that laughable... real/microsoft
should hae by now, come out and said that this is laughable, given that
real/msoft are two of the largest providers of the audio/video servers which
are used to support the streaming biz....

so who knows... the claims will either survice..or they won't....

so all you guys/girls.. dust off those old thesis/research docs from your
old libraries... demonstrate that somebody had something similar but didn't
bother to scream it from the rooftops!!!! show the world that the patents
should be tossed!!

peace!!


-----Original Message-----
From: Dougal Campbell [mailto:dougal at gunters.org]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 7:57 AM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: RE: [thelist] Patents screw plug-ins


On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, bruce wrote:

> [....]
> ps. for laughs...check out the patent issues/fights that are slowly
starting
> with streaming audio/video.. acacia research..(sp?) they're going after
the
> adult industry, claiming that streaming of content infringes on their
> patents...

Except that Acacia isn't limiting it to the adult industry anymore
(probably because they're fighting back in court). They've been going
after small colleges which use audio and video for online classes. I
think that their strategy is to go after businesses that are too small
to fight back, figuring that it's cheaper for them to roll over and pay
the licensing fees than it is to fight it in court.

I'm pretty sure that somebody will be able to dig up some prior-art to
get their patent claims invalidated, though. Read more about it at:
  http://fightthispatent.com/

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