Acacia Climbing the Food Chain

superflex writes "CNet and others have articles today related to a story that appeared here a couple months ago regarding Acacia Media Technologies, who hold several U.S. and international patents that they claim give them exclusive rights to compressed digital media transmission technologies. The previous article, for the lazy among you, was an AskSlashdot about whether the askers' pr0n site should pay license fees to these guys. Seems that since then, they've moved on to some internet radio sites, and are actually getting fees out of them. Their claims haven't been challenged in court yet, but they appear very broad, possibly covering PPV on cable/satellite as well as internet-based streaming. One wonders if they might try going after one of the big boys soon."

What about the important stuff???

[LordYUK]

Like a link to the "the askers' pr0n site"?!? huh? huh??

sheesh... =)

Time Machine

[hbean]

Someone should build a time machine, go back, get a patient on making crappy broken operating systems, come back and sue mircosoft!

Simple way to solve this

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone fax goatse.cx to their fax number!!! =)

Acacia Research Corporation
500 Newport Center Drive, 7th Floor
Newport Beach, California 92660
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Then post it to them, then email it to them, then phone them up and say, imagine an old man, bending over and spreading his rotten arse-band for you to give him a tonsil inspection.

Who would have thought that Goatse.cx would, one day, represent all that is free in this world!

Their contact details - voice your opinion!

[Anonymous Coward]

Acacia Research Corporation
500 Newport Center Drive, 7th Floor
Newport Beach, California 92660
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

I would argue in favour of mass sending of goatse.cx to every communication channel we have with them.

After all, that is a compressed digital transmission! (JPEG - no I didn't check, i just guessed!)

Patent ?

[KoolDude]

Thank god nobody patented what is shown in the pr0n videos. ;)

Oh wait, where's the Patent Office btw ?

Re:They won't go after the big boys until..

[Anonymous Coward]

If you do invent a time machine, you'll go back in time and patent it before them yourself. And, if you invent teleportation, you'll just teleport their lawyers into the middle of the ocean.