As you all know, or should, I'm very anti Acacia even to the point of being boring. What I'm trying to do now is find a way to raise money for the defense fund other than just giving money ourselves, which we are doing.

So put on your thinking caps and come up with ideas. These can be applicable and used by anyone else, content providers, sponsors, hosts, 3rd party processors. We all need to fight this together.

Paul,
MikeAI will be doing some promo at his booth in Las Vegas, with 50% procceds donated to the cause...
he'll fill you on the details later.

In the two weeks of the Patent This Auction has been running, we have raised over $900.

We sent off a check this week for the first weeks auction of $616.00 (Still waiting on one guy to send his $130) And this week we raise over $880 which will go off as soon as we get the money in.

So not bad for a half arsed attempt to raise money. I promise it will get better and the raffle will also be running properly, have to work out who won that from the orders placed for the sets.

YOu should talk to AVN about giving some space to you, so you can solicit donations and educate webmasters and the masses.

That or have some kind of drawing, have some prizes donated sell raffle tickets for $1 a pop at show, last day have the drawing.