Absurd patent case?

It seems to have died down. When months ago a company claiming to be a Singapore company started sending letters to webmasters of local websites demanding payment for the image linking codes they use. Quite absurd too and it shocked the WWW world. They smell fishy from day one when such code are freely in use and these fishes out of no where start to ask for payment and claimed that they own the codes. This fish even hide under as a Singapore company when they are registered in Australia. So if they think people are stupid to believe it is a Singapore company, we could easily find out who they really from. Most people think it is a replay of the Odex case. These people only knows to use lawyer letters to frighten people. In this case, it is even absurd to have someone asking for payment on a common internet language code that is in use by everyone in the world. So what will be next? Someone asking to pay up for JPG files?