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Originally posted by Anthony@Oct 21 2003, 12:42 PM
What makes you think that MAINSTREAM won't circle their own wagons with an organization that caters to their interest and not the scum PORNERS?
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Before when i was thinking there was an adult webmaster community, I would have said that mainstream is so fragemented, that there isn't a set of boards that webmasters hangout and post and read and share ideas.
Webmasters work for companies, it's their job, they go home at night.
Webmasters in the adult biz are many time the boss as well.
Http://www.YouMayBeNext.com is the closet to a grouping of people coming together to fight.. i think that these people will band together to knock down the patent, then go home when it's over..... probably too burnt out, or more interested in their own business, to want to create an organization that looks after others.
I already contacted EFF.org.. i exchanged several emails with the Chairman, they are spread out all over, that they don't focus on patent cases.
ACLU won't help, it's not in their charter.
There is no other entity, unless some of the big players want to start their own.. and most will just work it out themselves... who's rallying to help Microsoft against patent claims?? No one.
Now that I have accepted that there is no community with adult webmasters, and that everyone is fragmented, then the first thing to tackle, is just getting the 250K pledged.
This task already has betting odds against it by so many... so if I can pull this off, then i have a new task, which you have correctly identified, how do I convince mainstream to pledge money.
My answer is this.... they are donating to an organization that they believe helps fight against patent abuse...whether it be to help them, or just for the greater good..
Will they be bothered that "porn dollars" helped start the organization? who knows.. but FTPF isn't an adult organization like IMPA.. so there is "adult" stigma, other than what someone tries to inflect by doing a good search on my efforts within the industry.
You think a defendant is gonna ask me if the money spent to help them came from "porn"??? If they do, how can i tell them that x dollars from the "dirty porn guys" won't be used to help them, but instead, we'll use this "nice and clean" money to defend them?
I am not sure what you mean by not liking my tactics?
For posting on boards, information that answers people's questions?
Because i am being a "board whore" in asking people for donations?
i realize that no one likes an ongoing Jerry Lewis telethon, but my totals of $31,000 clearly show I have not reached a wide enough audience.
If you pledged, then you can tune me out... If you haven't and don't want to , put me in your ignore list or turn the channel.
If I am bringing this info to your attention for the first time, despite Acacia being in the news for over a year, then I have done my job...
If I fail to reach the pledge total, then that means the individual webmasters have spoken, there is no need for the solution that i propose..and i accept that... so next question, when will you give up when you see you won't reach the total?
Probably right after InterNext if the total is still short or when i get beaten down enough by negative posts and apathetic responses and give up and go back to my own world of making money for myself.
Fight the Patent!