Acacia’s Threat to Adult Industry

The adult industry currently faces a threat from Acacia Technologies since it initiated to seek approval of a class action lawsuit opposing the whole Adult Internet Industry. The lawsuit contains Acacia’s patent claim on all information streamed or downloaded over the internet.

Getting an approval to this law suit, Acacia will eventually possess power in processing the validity of their patents to either single company rather or against the entire industry. In short, they will be on your way asking money.          

Acacia Technologies adopts, acquires and permits patented technologies. Acacia’s Digital Media Transmission (DMT) Technology, refers to the reception and transmittance of video-on-demand and audio-on-demand and audio/video streaming or simply termed digital audio and/or audio video substance. These elements include cable, satellite, wireless systems and the Internet.

The DMT transmission procedure includes a source material library, identification encoding process, format conversion, sequence encoding, compressed data storage, and transmission. The DMT receiving procedure includes a transceiver, format conversion, storage, decompression, and playback.

The strategy of Acacia effectively wants to put a tax on every single person who uses the Internet. This covers video-on-demand services, internet radio, pay-per-view movies, video news clips from sites like CNN.com, and even songs from Amazon.com or iTunes. Counteracting the lawsuit, the adult industry are firmly arguing that the systems covered by Acacia's patents and the patents themselves are invalid.

The drawback of Acacia’s lawsuit greatly affects the adult industry but the burden will be definitely felt by the internet users as a whole.

In Acacia’s effort to get unwarranted fees for alleged infringement of its patents, it is creating an offensive attempt in targeting the adult industry. Acacia desires a cut for all that moves on the Internet. As Acacia's "tax" will be passed on to users, everyone will pay the price for Acacia's prowling practice. That is, if Acacia wins.