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

[Torsten Schenkel]

Am Do, den 15.01.2004 schrieb Joey Parrish um 20:35:
> 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.

Not that stupid obviously :-)

> --Joey
> 
> N.B.:
> Ein Deutsche soll mein Übersetzung lesen.

I will. Btw you missed the 'r' in 'Deutscher'

> Habe ich das richtig geschrieben?

> And a better English speaker than me should 
> probably check my spelling.  :)

Won't do that :-)

> -----
> 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.")

You got the meaning, literally it is: According to Acacia 114 companies
have licenced the technique so far

> 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.

That's not bad at all, I'd give you an A-


Torsten
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