Nov. 30th Acacia Amnesty date coming up

[Hooper]

FTP... one thing that many people dont realize about the boards is that they are widely read, there are 99 lurkers for every poster and your words have power.

Q: What does Acacia need in order to influence webmasters and win licenses?
A: Awareness of their "existance", Fear of their "wrath", A strong belief that they should be "taken seriously".

How many other threads on any board do you see about Acacia *RIGHT NOW* besides yours? Collect prior art, discuss these matters tastefully when other people bring them up, and DONATE MONEY, but good lord man... if i was Acacia, i would have asked that you write this thread with the very same title.

My comment about the money was absolutely accurate, while a "go get em" attitude is wonderful and I'm sure the IMPA appreciates your moral support and whatever contributions of prior art you have given them, I'm sure they would appreciate the $40k that you received commitments for but didn't collect.

My point? You're helping IMPA, but your eager beaver attitude is actually doing more harm than good because the one thing that Acacia does not want is the "legal bowels of hell" and if 10,000 webmasters simply dont respond to their letters and actually wait for a suit before they respond, then they WILL be in the legal bowels of hell. If all of them call in asking to settle because they've "heard a lot about it on the boards from some guy named FTP" then they will have gotten exactly what they wanted.

But I congratulate you, i'm sure your efforts have lead to more than one phone call to Berman asking what his rates are.

Finally, what do you think will win this trial? Lawyers, and lawyers arent free. Lawyers cost $$$. All the moral support in the world is great, but til the lawyers are paid that moral support is empty.

Stop raising awareness of the issue and the deadline, especially so close to their "deadline". You're helping the bad guys.