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Acadia Streaming Patent Contested

Posted by chrisd on from the streaming-greedhead-crap dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Since last year Acadia Research has sent hundreds of letters to various porn web sites to arrange royalty deals, picking on the small fry before trying to take on well-heeled companies such as Disney. However, many small fries refused, and now 40 firms have joined forces and are embroiled in a suit with Acadia. Fish & Richardson (a prominent intellectual property law firm) have taken their case. The best part? CEO Paul Ryan's obvious sour-grapes-syndrome, he goes from describing the web porn industry as a "billion-dollar industry" where the money is to a "sideshow" that's "maybe 1% of our potential revenues". Check it out here"

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  1. Amazon by kmac06 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, Amazon plans to sue every site on the internet that uses cookies, as well as Microsoft for allowing sites other than Amazon to stores cookies.

  2. Uh Oh... by FFtrDale · · Score: 4, Funny
    Is Acacia going to file a patent application for sex, too, along with their patent on streaming video? We know that the US Patent Office hasn't been too alert about prior art...

    Yeah, yeah, go ahead & reply w/ the obligatory joke about /.ers "not having to worry about getting sued for infringement."

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  3. Slapped...buckling... by canning · · Score: 4, Funny

    Eight firms agreed to Acacia's terms. But 40 didn't, and Acacia promptly slapped them with lawsuits. Rather than buckling, though, several of the porno sites joined together and stood their ground. Now Acacia is in the fight of its life and may even face a shareholder revolt as a result.

    Searching for sexual innuendos..... searching......

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    1. Re:Slapped...buckling... by antibryce · · Score: 4, Funny
      Searching for sexual innuendos..... searching......

      You must be using MSN's search engine. Here's the output from Google:

      Searching...82374982734987298347289347982 Results found.

      Hope that helps. :)

  4. Note to Editors and Posters by Entropy_ah · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't EVER post a story about porn sites and end it with a link entitled "Check it out here"
    You really got my hopes up :(

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  5. How long before... by cyril3 · · Score: 4, Funny
    your bad English gets you into trouble with Disney.

    sent hundreds of letters to various porn web sites to arrange royalty deals, picking on the small fry before trying to take on well-heeled companies such as Disney.

    I imagine they will feel insulted at being called a well heeled porn site.

  6. Simple Solution by cranos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Make them watch twenty hours of Ron Jeremy, they'll buckle quicker than Asia Carerras panties come off

  7. Re:yet one... by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 4, Funny


    yet one... more case of Patents gone crazy.

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