Nov. 30th Acacia Amnesty date coming up

[FightThePatent]

Originally posted by newb@Nov 27 2003, 08:10 AM


I'm still torn if I'm going to sign or not. reasonable.

I am currently talking to a patent attorney and a corporate attorney combo, to see if they can find an angle that would allow smaller webmasters who want to take a legal stand, to band together to put money in a fund that goes directly to legal defense (there is no Fight the Patent Foundation concept anymore)

The idea is that whoever is the first to actually be sued, the money would go towards their defense (assuming that webmasters put money into the defense fund).

The next webmaster that gets sued, can join the defense fund by putting in their share (ie $1,000) and they join the group... ..the new lawsuit will get folded into the existing lawsuit and tried as a group.

This defense group would be for TGP/affiliate/linker type people, that are a different crowd than the existing defense group (made up of paysites and direct infringers).

This group of people are 'contributory infringers' where you don't have any audio/video on your website, just links.. so it's not about prior art..it's about what really defines as 'contributory infringer' and whether you are liable or not.

Still waiting on some answers..have a meeting/dinner with one of the attorneys today, so i hope to have some answers. stay tuned.

This idea will only work if a large group of smaller webmasters band together.. otherwise, there is not enough money to properly defend the case...and then everyone will be left to defend themselves on their own.

There is strength in unity.

Fight the Suits!