Acacia patent on audio/video streaming

Re: Acacia patent on audio/video streaming

by Don Quixote -
Number of replies: 0
For all those who want to read the Patent Fulltext, it's here.

As usual, it's not an invention (all average skilled professionals have this idea for 20 years, we just didn't have the bandwidth yet), nothing that wasn't known before 2001, nothing new that hasn't been done similarly in other contexts.

One more stupid patent. I am still waiting on the precedent of a lawsuit for a "fraudulent business strategy by using patents" against one a these firms.

I think copyright and intellectual property is okay and stealing the work of someone else is bad. But this also applies here: It's just a strategy to steal the work (or the money earned by it) from others by a fraudulent misuse of "patents".

Andreas