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Originally posted by Rolo@Oct 16 2003, 02:14 PM
4. Take a stand - join http://www.impai.org/ and hope that enough people will do this, so the IMPA can have their day in court with Acacia 
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IMPA is not the ones that are going to court against Acacia's patent claims.
IMPA is an association that also has its founding members as the defendants in litigation. Money donated to the IMPA doesn't go towards paying the defendant's attorneys, it goes to furthering IMPA's efforts in the area of prior art patent searches, challenging the "virtual sex" trademark, etc.
Fight the Patent Foundation and IMPA have an overlap in the area of patents, whereas FTPF is only focused on patents, IMPA is looking after all different kinds of issues for webmasters. But where we overlap, is where we are working together with great synergy.
I would recommend reading up at
http://www.FightThePatent.com to learn more about Acacia and the OTHER patent holders who claim ownership over audio/video.
I also recomment joining IMPA to be a MEMBER (
http://www.impai.org/join.html) since membership has some privileges to it, as well as making a $100 pledge to Fight The Patent Foundation if you support it's charter, described at
http://www.FightThePatent.com/go
Fight the Patent!