[MPlayer-dev-eng] Patents ... (GERMAN) [_ at gmx.de: heise onlin e: Streaming-Spezialist Acacia erwirbt europaeisches Patent]

[Joey Parrish]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:12:39AM -0000, Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> You assume that most people can read German!
> 
> Great! 

Eh.  I'm a stupid american, I can read enough to get by.

--Joey

N.B.:
Ein Deutsche soll mein Übersetzung lesen.
Habe ich das richtig geschrieben?
And a better English speaker than me should 
probably check my spelling.  :)

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Streaming specialist Acacia has acquired a european patent for their
digital media transmission technique.  According to Acacia, with this
they have been able to expand patent protection to Germany, France,
and Switzerland.  DMT is meant for audio and video on demand over the
internet, cable, sattellite and wireless systems.  So far, Acacia has
licensed the technique to 114 companies. (NOTE: Not sure.  Auf Deutsch:
"Bisher haben laut Acacia 114 Unternehmen die Technik lizenziert.")

In October 2002, Acacia began to write the webmasters of small erotic
websites in the USA to refer to the patents.  For the offering streaming
services, the company has raised fees and retroactively charged for
patent abuse.

In July 2003 Acacia got into a patent law controversy against 5
erotica providers.  In October 2003, 3 erotica providers licensed DMT
and so further legal cases were settled.
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