What the heck do you expect someone to do?

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May 8, 2018
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There's a court filing by Dolby somewhere that has been posted elsewhere. When you are credibly threatened with legal suit by a large company over the continued use of their product in yours, what the heck do you expect someone to do?

So ... when Dolby requires Adobe to immediately stop allowing use or access of "their property" ... in this case, coding to process ac3 audio ... do you expect Adobe to simply ignore the legalities of the situation?

And ... in that case ... I'm trying to figure out why Adobe is to blame here. Dolby is the company requiring Adobe shut off access or use of anything whatever relating to ac3 in their product (PrPro). Why aren't you complaining to or about Dolby? Would seem at least logical. Or at the very least, acknowledging this is a two-party dance and allotting the blame between them.

Neil

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Louis Peluso

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the entity thats going to be blamed is the one contracted by the end user. aka adobe. this isnt a pr issue this is a functionality issue and nobody chooses dolby off the shelf- they choose adboe. and right now right at this moment, adobe is the only choice and looks like it will be for the future. but then ibm, microsoft, netscape and corel thought the same thing and we all know how that worked out for them. fix this and stop the spin.

R Neil HaugenAuthor

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First, I'm not an Adobe staffer. Second, that ain't spin. And the people on the PrPro team wouldn't have had a say in the matter at all. That would have been up the line in Adobe Corporate.

Your thoughts on how legal systems and lawsuits work is certainly interesting. So, if Adobe is the larger company, they can just ignore some one else's property/legal rights? Somehow, I'm not thinking that would play well in court.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Louis Peluso

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i didnt say u were. it sounded enough like spin to qualify. happy talk which solves nothing. people come here for solutions because many of their incomes depend on it. adobe makes these forums the main source of such discussion and so here we are.

If you are not a representative of adobe, but just a gadlfy (welmeaning or not) im not going to waste my key strokes explaining to you what i meant by my "legal theories" or anything else. I wish i had time on my hands to put on an adobe tech costume and pretend to be helpful in the forums but im busy. my main complaint is that they should fix their mistake. This is, as i now know by research, a dispute over allegedly unpaid licensing fees.

adobe should do whats needed to not screw over their customers and work out the economics of that with dobly off stage instead of betting that the small number of users screwed over arent going to make a big enough stink.

which is why im here. have a nice day, i dont come here to fight. but im not here to experience the forum version of being shipped oversees for customer support who can only waste people's time. if enough people scream from the rooftops, they will do the right thing. being soothed by a gadly doesnt make my footage work in premiere.

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Louis Peluso

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wait so dolby is bigger than adobe? give me a break. this is a standoff over licensing fees. adobe as the little guy being picked on by goliath dolby is silly. do what has to be done so u dont screw over your customers and cut the garbage about mysterious magic guys in dark suits. i have multiple law firms working for my company. they do what i tell them.

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