Hasbro Trips Up Nerf Blogger With Dirty Tricks

[Jodah]

In the United States, I think the situation would be handled differently. He could have made a case for entrapment, a serious and provable offense, not to mention illegal. This reeks of entrapment to me, which is to bait someone to commit a crime.

Entrapment is when they trick you into committing a crime you normally wouldn't have. They did not trick him into a crime, they tricked him into giving up his address, thus not entrapment.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

You know at first I was going to make fun of them for so rigorously defending the designs to dart guns, but then I remembered those darts had a tendency to simply vanish. Perhaps they are defending dimensional transportation technology they don't fully understand yet.

 

[LtFerret]

anc[is]You know at first I was going to make fun of them for so rigorously defending the designs to dart guns, but then I remembered those darts had a tendency to simply vanish. Perhaps they are defending dimensional transportation technology they don't fully understand yet.

Nah, it's obviously cloaking technology. That's why you don't find the darts until years later. Their cloaking fields ran out of power.

 

[ElPatron]

Its. A. Fucking. DART GUN.
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WHO GIVES A FUCK?

The day you invent a product you can market to children and possibly man-children I am going to steal it and make a profit out of it and ask "Who actually gives a fuck?" when you try to sue me.

 

[praetor_alpha]

I'd countersue. If someone's brought out the lawyers, it's time you did too.

 

[jedizero]

The day you invent a product you can market to children and possibly man-children I am going to steal it and make a profit out of it and ask "Who actually gives a fuck?" when you try to sue me.

I'm sorry, when in this article did it state that someone was stealing anything and making a profit off of it? Or are you in fact talking out of your ass?

'Cause to me it seems more like he's showing information about something that is going to be made available to the US on a blog that is maintained for free. Not selling anything, not stealing anything, just sharing information.

 

[Lugbzurg]

He got them off of an Asian equivalent to eBay. Since most of these guns are manufactured in China, it's not hard to see how many of these guns get leaked to the online markets before street date. This isn't anything new.

Ah. This changes everything.

Oh well. Still, Hasbro gets kudos for RollerCoaster Tycoon.

Actually, it was made by Chris Sawyer and MicroProse. Hasbro Interactive just published it. Then, they got detached from Hasbro, changed their name, and disintegrated into the wind.

So... Nope.

But, really, if they were so intent on finding out where he was getting this sort of info, they could've been- no, they should've been less intimidating about it.

 

[ElPatron]

Not selling anything, not stealing anything, just sharing information.

In the piece of news it is clear that Hasbro has no idea from where the "samples" could have come from.

If you are producing a product and samples are leaked before release, you can lose a lot of money. I'm going to compare it to gaming: imagine a Call of Duty game would have a leak a few days before launch. People would start pirating like crazy because at that point even people who considered paying for the game just got it for free.

Now imagine a sweat shop in China reverse-engineering your products because of a "sample" you don't even know where it came from.

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

Actually, it was made by Chris Sawyer and MicroProse. Hasbro Interactive just published it. Then, they got detached from Hasbro, changed their name, and disintegrated into the wind.

So... Nope.

But, really, if they were so intent on finding out where he was getting this sort of info, they could've been- no, they should've been less intimidating about it.

I KNOW Mr. Sawyer made RCT. But it was Hasbro who published it, so don't they get a little treat for helping?

But it's still Sawyer who gets the main credits.

 

[weirdee]

I am getting the impression that two or more parties crossed their wires here.

 

[jedizero]

In the piece of news it is clear that Hasbro has no idea from where the "samples" could have come from.

Yes, this is true. I can understand their getting upset, but they're suing someone who has done a blog that has given then free advertisement for a long time. Under the guise of giving him freebies to hand out in a contest.

That is why I say that its not a big deal, not a big enough deal to murder your good will with the customer.