Some of you will receive the same email as I did from a feed provider with info on Acacia Media and the patent infringement lawsuit based on a claim they have a patent on all video transmission which is user controlled.
Going a step further
http://www.youmaybenext.com is a site about another internet extortion type deal
where Pangea Intellectual Properties LLC is suing companies claiming that if you use graphical and textual information on a video screen for purposes of making a sale, then you are infringing on their patent
So far it looks like PanIP
http://www.panip.com/ is suing small companies that are not in their state of California and basically extorting 5K from them
and it looks like PanIP was set solely for this purpose - the domain panip.com record was created on-> 2000-03-06
this isn't even protection money, this is pay me because my lawyer has a bigger dick that yours and the patent office isn't real familiar with computers (it seems)
This is one of their patents
and it looks um interesting, need a law doctor to look at it
If I get it correct it says about any internet transaction is covered by their patent hmmmm......
Last edited by Vick at Nov 15 2002, 07:43 PM