Divorce Lawyers Use WoW, FarmVille, Facebook in Court
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This seems like a fairly valid thing to bring up in the courts to show that one parent should get custody over another. If someone should have been at their kid's (Some function), and they weren't because they were playing WoW, it can beg the question of what else they might be letting lax because of the game.
The FarmVille thing is a bit odd though. Can't that be played from a phone? Meaning she could have been where she was expected and still have been playing that?
The FarmVille thing is a bit odd though. Can't that be played from a phone? Meaning she could have been where she was expected and still have been playing that?
Hey, Former WoW player here. Done all raids but ICC Nice to meetcha. Just the purpose of a joke. Hope ya understand. :3yoda3d2 said:
Calumon: Might wanna see someone about that Modern Warfare 2 thing... It takes control of you.
examples like this have becoming more and more popular, at least in the news. such as couples who fail to care for their children because they are too busy playing video games... using it as grounds for divorce? whatever happened to people just cutting off their internet access to stop this kind of thing from happening? clearly someone has a problem and won't volunteer to quit by themselves, so cut them off at the knees and prohibit them from having access to said service.
now, if you can prove they are being unfaithful through chat logs or emails in video games, I can understand using that. but I wonder something... in asking for alimony, can someone request a T1 line because of the "lifestyle they are accustomed to of playing WoW with zero lag"? only a matter of time before marriage therapists start wanting to sue ActiBlizzard for causing the rise in divorce rates. the smaller cases will be against Zynga.
now, if you can prove they are being unfaithful through chat logs or emails in video games, I can understand using that. but I wonder something... in asking for alimony, can someone request a T1 line because of the "lifestyle they are accustomed to of playing WoW with zero lag"? only a matter of time before marriage therapists start wanting to sue ActiBlizzard for causing the rise in divorce rates. the smaller cases will be against Zynga.
WTF? Raw potatoes are hardly, barely, not really very edible.Otterpoet said:
That's just compounding one bad decision on top of another on top of another on top of another.. but hell, I guess when you're traveling down Stupid Avenue you may as well hit all the stores along the way
Agreed. What's with women always winnin custody cases...Demented Teddy said:
I guess men are evil. Duh.
I've eaten a lot of raw potatoes when I was a kid...I think they are quite edible. :/warmonkey said:
He'd probably have fun with me too, but nowhere near your extent.SnootyEnglishman said:
OT: This is rather interesting and sad at the same time. I don't know if i should laugh with hysterics or weep for humanity.
Not surprising, divorce is a dirty ugly battle of mudslinging(just like US presidential elections)If it can possibly be used to gain the upper hand no matter how ridiculous the item is it will be used.
How did they get the records from Blizzard?
Seems to me you can't just ask for gaming records from a company. There are standards and regulations. It is kind of like this. If someone breaks into your car, and steals your radio, the cops aren't going to dust the car and put much effort into it. But if someone breaks into your car and shoots a guy in there, you can bet they will do more than ask questions.
My point is that, usually it has to be a legal case in the favor of the state for them to lean onto a company into forcing them to give up records. In some cases, the government askes without a warrant and the companies just give the info anyways. Such an example would be yahoo/google when the goverment pulled ALL of the data for the last decade or so. That being said, every single person that is reading this right now, has used the internet between now and 10 years ago. The government is complining information into large databases to sort and classify different segments of society. Lets just hope you don't fall into the radical fringe class, or you can be your life is like 1984 and you don't know it.
Let's take it a step further and get hypothetical. We all know what spyware is, and keyloggers. They are illegal, yet they exist extensively. What is to stop the CIA or what ever covert branch from having a 3rd party front company shelter them for data collection? There would be no law against that, and now that I think about it, possible legal. If a company got the information, they could willfull just hand the information over to them. But again, lets pretend its not just a simple key logger. Just about everyone has a webcam of a mic on their pc. Doesn't take much to get a trojan executed on a remote system that isn't too secure, and once that is done, you can not only watch their desktop, but literally watch them. What is to stop the government from doing this to us? We would never know, and if you reported it, they would "look into it" but I am sure you personally will never hear one way or another as to how it pans out.
But, as if I wasn't displeased with WoW enough as it is lately, to hear that they gave over documents is kinda ridiculous. Now I realise perhaps they could get a warrant or summons or something. But you would think that playing a video game might fall under the category of "Pursuit of Happiness" and thus you would think you would be protected. But then again on the flipside, it sounds like the parent was a horrible one that neglected their kids. I am not trying to defend her I assure you, just that it appears rights might have been violated.
Seems to me you can't just ask for gaming records from a company. There are standards and regulations. It is kind of like this. If someone breaks into your car, and steals your radio, the cops aren't going to dust the car and put much effort into it. But if someone breaks into your car and shoots a guy in there, you can bet they will do more than ask questions.
My point is that, usually it has to be a legal case in the favor of the state for them to lean onto a company into forcing them to give up records. In some cases, the government askes without a warrant and the companies just give the info anyways. Such an example would be yahoo/google when the goverment pulled ALL of the data for the last decade or so. That being said, every single person that is reading this right now, has used the internet between now and 10 years ago. The government is complining information into large databases to sort and classify different segments of society. Lets just hope you don't fall into the radical fringe class, or you can be your life is like 1984 and you don't know it.
Let's take it a step further and get hypothetical. We all know what spyware is, and keyloggers. They are illegal, yet they exist extensively. What is to stop the CIA or what ever covert branch from having a 3rd party front company shelter them for data collection? There would be no law against that, and now that I think about it, possible legal. If a company got the information, they could willfull just hand the information over to them. But again, lets pretend its not just a simple key logger. Just about everyone has a webcam of a mic on their pc. Doesn't take much to get a trojan executed on a remote system that isn't too secure, and once that is done, you can not only watch their desktop, but literally watch them. What is to stop the government from doing this to us? We would never know, and if you reported it, they would "look into it" but I am sure you personally will never hear one way or another as to how it pans out.
But, as if I wasn't displeased with WoW enough as it is lately, to hear that they gave over documents is kinda ridiculous. Now I realise perhaps they could get a warrant or summons or something. But you would think that playing a video game might fall under the category of "Pursuit of Happiness" and thus you would think you would be protected. But then again on the flipside, it sounds like the parent was a horrible one that neglected their kids. I am not trying to defend her I assure you, just that it appears rights might have been violated.
They wouldn't neccessarily have to...GamerPhate said:
Keeping in mind that my experience with WoW is very limited (I don't actually play the game myself), I can see numerous ways in which one could find out specific dates/times the game was played.
For example, using the WoW Armoury, one could easily see the most recent PvP matches that a player had with another player. It's limited, but it's a start.
Also, if one had access to the player's computer (and they kept chat logs of some sort), one could simply look at the timestamps on the logs (assuming that the logs are kept in the same format as MSN, SL, et cetera).
Just my two cents, though.
