Lurking and the Acacia "problem"

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For those that have affiliate programs or content producers that have webmaster email lists, you can help to spread the word.

If you could send the message below to your email list, maybe more webmasters will come forward to pledge and to take a stand.

So many people have settled, more than you realize... For those that did settle, i ask you to consider making "anonymous" or private pledges.

Acacia is just one company, there are many more patent abuse cases coming.

Thanks in advance to those who forward this message on to their email list:

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For those that haven't been following the threads and news about Acacia, let me briefly bring you up to speed:

Acacia Research (http://www.acaciatechnologies.com) has some patents (http://www.acaciatechnologies.com/patents.htm) that claim essentially to owning the process of downloading audio or video files from a web server.

They sent out "information packets" to many companies, some adult, some to schools and universities.

They are demanding license fees (http://www.acaciatechnologies.com/te...t_adultent.htm) for payment of using their "patent".

Some adult websites have licensed their patent (see Press Releases at http://www.acaciatechnologies.com) while others have joined together to form the IMPA (http://www.impai.org) and to also become defendants in litigation.

FightThePatent.com (http://www.FightThePatent.com) was formed on August 12th as a one-man crusade to bring awareness to these issues and to assist the defendants to find prior art (with no compensation).

Many webmasters jumped into the search for prior art, using this page http://www.FightThePatent.com/v2/Searching.html to help find stuff to look for, and http://www.FightThePatent.com/v2/Squirt.html to see what prior art examples were posted.

FightThePatent.com has now broadened its scope to propose the start of Fight the Patent Foundation ("FTPF")(http://www.FightThePatent.com/go) to help fight against patent abuse.

Learn more about the issues and make your pledge to stop patent abuse cases like Acacia by going to http://www.FightThePatent.com/go


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