Acacia Climbing the Food Chain

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 6, 2003 @07:24AM from the slithering-squelching-oozing dept.

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."

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Damn Lawyers by froth · 2003-02-06 07:26 · Score: 0, Troll

When are we going to shoot them all? Oh wait.. its probably against the law to say that. Guess I better go find my self a Lawyer.. wtf

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15 quid is all she asks for... by soupforare · 2003-02-06 07:56 · Score: 0, Troll

Everybody's got their vice

I want to have Bruce Dickenson's love child
Up the Irons

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