Germany Bans the Xbox 360

[ThunderCavalier]

Somehow, I don't see Microsoft giving up this case so easily.

They'll probably try to exhaust every option they can to keep their products in Germany until Motorola runs out of money or patience to continue the whole process. I'm not too familiar with the specifics of the patent that these two companies are having a big courtroom battle over, but I've seen enough stories about big companies basically wearing out the opposing party's wallet until they win these kind of debates to see that, unless Motorola has a lot of financial backing, they're not particularly intimidating Microsoft.

But I'm not too familiar with Germany's judicial system, either, so this might be something to pay more attention to, I dunno.

 

[The Great JT]

Well, that sucks. Sorry, Germany.

 

[Chunga the Great]

These kinds of news always remind me of this quote:

"If the real world could be patented like software, expect to be sued every time you place one foot in front of the other to propel yourself forwards."

Oh, this thread is gonna have so many nazi jokes, isn't it? *sigh*

I can say I did nazi this coming.

Anne Frankly, I won't stand for it.

Really Reiching for puns, aren't we?

These Nazi jokes are making me Fuhrerious.

I don't know about you but I'm Goebbeling them up

So distasteful, I kamph believe you people!

Can we stop it with the Nazi puns, please; they're offensive and take me out of Mein Kampfort zone.

Come on, it's just for Auschwitz and giggles. Nothing wrong with that, SSurely?

Maybe some Luft-waffles will cheer everyone up. The we can Getstapoo with the Nazi puns?

You should have known that this was Goering to be a long thread.

Wermacht have to stop, we could seriously offend some people.

So distasteful, I kamph beleive you people!

You must stop this Reich now or you will create a bad Model for others to follow.

 

[Sangreal Gothcraft]

Hehe these puns are breaking Mien Spleen apart. I can smell a Scheiße storm brewing..

 

[thedeathscythe]

Oh wow... This is something else...
I can't tell if this is just, or just a case of patent trolling gone horribly wrong.
Why did they wait this long?

It was probably delayed in courts. Chances are it was filed shortly after Kinect came out. That's what big companies do, delay the courts until you lose interest or you make more money from it and hire more lawyers to keep stalling or come up with a defence.

OT: This is pretty shocking to be banned in Germany, but even with all they're gonna throw at them and charge them, this is mere pennies for Microsoft. This isn't going to bankrupt them or anything.

 

[Cecilthedarkknight_234]

so they are going to take all of those metals that are bi*** to get and just smash them.. makes sense to me.

 

[Saulkar]

These kinds of news always remind me of this quote:

"If the real world could be patented like software, expect to be sued every time you place one foot in front of the other to propel yourself forwards."

Oh, this thread is gonna have so many nazi jokes, isn't it? *sigh*

I can say I did nazi this coming.

Anne Frankly, I won't stand for it.

Really Reiching for puns, aren't we?

These Nazi jokes are making me Fuhrerious.

I don't know about you but I'm Goebbeling them up

Can we stop it with the Nazi puns, please; they're offensive and take me out of Mein Kampfort zone.

Agreed. I am going Rammel into anyone who posts another one.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I love clicking on a serious sounding thread and finding it full of nazi jokes.
I wish I was kidding.

OT: Are they actually going to go through with this? It's madness.

Madness? THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAA!

 

[esperandote]

Winners, sony and nintendo.

 

[vivster]

so it's not germany vs xbox it's motorola vs microsoft and they happen to choose a german court
and also the ruling isn't even in effect yet

way to blow up a title....

 

[xxcloud417xx]

These kinds of news always remind me of this quote:

"If the real world could be patented like software, expect to be sued every time you place one foot in front of the other to propel yourself forwards."

Oh, this thread is gonna have so many nazi jokes, isn't it? *sigh*

I can say I did nazi this coming.

Anne Frankly, I won't stand for it.

Really Reiching for puns, aren't we?

These Nazi jokes are making me Fuhrerious.

I don't know about you but I'm Goebbeling them up

Can we stop it with the Nazi puns, please; they're offensive and take me out of Mein Kampfort zone.

Agreed. I am going Rammel into anyone who posts another one.

What the Heil is wrong with you all? This is absolutely no laughing matter.

 

[Xman490]

Yes, ban Xbox 360s. Punish the consumers for something the technicians did wrong. It's not like a simple money payment could reconcile the problem. This isn't like that Zimmerman case.

Seriously, bail money for murder makes no sense, but a monetary penalty for this would make much more sense than destroying products.

 

[Saulkar]

What the Heil is wrong with you all? This is absolutely no laughing matter.

I fail to see the pun in your comment thus I assume there is no pun and that you derailed a perfectly good line of puns and thus I rewardingly pun-ish you with the golden voice of Mark Hamill laughing at matter.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Hankman would be so proud of you guys/gals. It brings a tear to my eye...

OT: Well, guess there won't be any Halo Reach: Fails of the Weak submissions from Germany anymore. On a more serious note, sheer idiocy in all parties involved. This accomplishes nothing good. Just wait, there will be a reaction from the gamers in that area.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

Calumon: They should ban Playstations! They're heavy and fall on you and you can't move no matter how hard you wriggle! D:

That is the saddest and also cutest thing I've ever seen, lol.

OT: Awesome. Just plain awesome. Copyright and IP laws are really, really important, right Microsoft? Okay. Suck on that.

Copyright infringement, eh Microsoft?
"Now the rubber band is on the other claw!"

Exactamundo.

It's all well and good to hoard your little collection of patents and secrets, but you don't like it when someone else wants to do the same, I'll bet, Microsoft.

[HEADING=2] Delicious![/HEADING]​

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

And I suppose we can chalk this up to another case where a major software company suffers greatly from violating a software patent yet fails to learn that software patents are a bad thing.

Or just fails to realise that screwing with other people's intellectual properties is a bad idea.

You know, that could actually spark a really important discussion. I don't know enough about it to feel worthy of wading in and defending my standpoint (I'm standing on some pretty shallow knowledge here) but I'd like to see the debate occur.

Oh, and for the record my standpoint is that while individuals having a right to their creations is good, the implementation of patents and intellectual property is so insanely stupid that it hurts my head. For example: Nintendo owns the rights to the D-pad (plus, cross) style of gamepad, see below.

So too does... I forget who it is, but someone owns the right, I fucking kid you not, to mini-games during loading screens.

As I said, I couldn't really defend my opinion beyond "dat's stupid, mkay," so take this comment for what it's worth.

 

[harvz]

wait, so did Motorola develop the h.264 codec? It seems that it would have been far better to allow/sell/receive royalties for the use of the codec as im fairly certain that apple use it for its videos so germany can ditch all apple products...oh wait, apple makes the iphone and the average person (by which i mean the old ass judge) has one or has kids that have one.

wait, why stop there, blu-ray players use h.264 (im not sure all the time but i do know that its a standard), divx players, hell, ban the computer as people can encode h.264 using this.

 

[teebeeohh]

except that this news is sensationalist and completely useless since all court decisions in Europe are not being enforced until a ruling in Seattle regarding a restraining order against Motorola. And even then the EU commission may just decide that American companies can keep their patent trolling in the US and overrule this.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Someone has to make a Downfall parody over this, seriously. This just sets itself up perfectly for one.

Also, it appears no-one has yet forgotten that Germany started a few wars and had a man who ruined Charlie Chaplin's facial hair style, a sacred buddhist symbol, and how people look when they are left hanging when trying to get a High Five.

In all seriousness, I think this might make Microsoft do something a bit more than a double take and they ought to go to Motorola with some nice wine and fresh lipstick.

Calumon: They should ban Playstations! They're heavy and fall on you and you can't move no matter how hard you wriggle! D:

I feel with Calumon in this case, I once had a PS2 fall on my head while sleeping, it started bleeding and I had to go to the hospital .

If I had lived in America I would have sued Sony for making the PS2 so heavy and for not warning me that putting it in a position where it could easily fall on your head while sleeping was a bad idea.

 

[Wayne Insane]

Strangely, I live in Germany and I haven't heard a peep about that. Actually was at my Gamestore yesterday. Hmmm...