Ummm, perhaps this would solve the problem entirely.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is224...l#_Toc447982103
The first meetings regarding digital MPEG encoding took place in 1988. Quite simply, there was an idea and a working project on the encoding and digital distribution of motions pictures 4 years before the Acacia patent.
Is this not a no brainer now?
Alex