On the off chance dose win not hard to appeal this case (and frankly Nintendo should of)so held in a less bias courtroom. I hope this goes all the way then they counter sue him for been a greedy ba**** as all these court cases of late just pathetic and a few people need a smack around the head and told to shut the hell up.
Patent Troll Ready to Sue World of Warcraft, Second Life
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Fuck this guy. And I don't mean get him laid, either.
Seriously, what anal-retentive assshole would lean over a company's shoulder and say, "Hey, whatcha makin'? Oh, you say it's a medieval fantasy realm with multiple players at once? Oh, ouch. You see, a while ago, I made a game where lost of people could play online at once, too. Mind you, it was about something completely different, but still, you stole my idea of of online multiplayer, so you owe me a ton of money. I'd prefer it in cash, please," with a straight face? Christ, you don't see H.P. Love craft popping out of his grave, walking up to Stephen King, and saying to him, "Hey, asshole, you stole the concept of horror from me! Where the fuck's my money, punk!?"
Now do you?
Fuck, if those guys in Texas let Worlds.com get away with this, I suggest we KICK TEXAS OUT OF THE UNITED STATES. Seriously, this case is grade-a, depleted uranium BULLSHIT.
Watch yer figgins.
Seriously, what anal-retentive assshole would lean over a company's shoulder and say, "Hey, whatcha makin'? Oh, you say it's a medieval fantasy realm with multiple players at once? Oh, ouch. You see, a while ago, I made a game where lost of people could play online at once, too. Mind you, it was about something completely different, but still, you stole my idea of of online multiplayer, so you owe me a ton of money. I'd prefer it in cash, please," with a straight face? Christ, you don't see H.P. Love craft popping out of his grave, walking up to Stephen King, and saying to him, "Hey, asshole, you stole the concept of horror from me! Where the fuck's my money, punk!?"
Now do you?
Fuck, if those guys in Texas let Worlds.com get away with this, I suggest we KICK TEXAS OUT OF THE UNITED STATES. Seriously, this case is grade-a, depleted uranium BULLSHIT.
Watch yer figgins.
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What are you talking about? This is the perfect time to wipe this scourge of blasphemy. His idea [that everyone has gotten once and a while during an RPG] got stolen, and he should get millions of dollars for this major inconvenience. It will help not only the economy but also be the American way.
What a total dumbass...
I mean, if you design something, and someone else designs something similar, you can't just say "my idea first." If that was the way things worked the first guy who ever made a wheel would be running around beating anyone else who thought of ROLLING THINGS and over the head with his primitive club!
When one person makes a program, and someone else makes another program that is LIKE it, it's still their own program unless they blatantly ripped off the code and dumped some shiny FECES in it.
Thank goodness there's a place we can yell at each other about how stupid people like that are.
I mean, if you design something, and someone else designs something similar, you can't just say "my idea first." If that was the way things worked the first guy who ever made a wheel would be running around beating anyone else who thought of ROLLING THINGS and over the head with his primitive club!
When one person makes a program, and someone else makes another program that is LIKE it, it's still their own program unless they blatantly ripped off the code and dumped some shiny FECES in it.
Thank goodness there's a place we can yell at each other about how stupid people like that are.
Quite true... And I know how to redistribute it properly! The game painkiller. It has a gun. This guns name is Electrodriver. It shoots shurikens and lightning.Onmi said:
Just fuckin' try it. We have more guns than you.angryscotsman93 said:
We also produce and process a huge portion of your oil. Enjoy your inflated gas prices, suckers!
Also, our small short-crust pasties containing raisins are just fine, thank you.
Now, in all seriousness:
The Nintendo case seemed pretty clear-cut to me - it was the squishy shoulder buttons and analog sticks that Anascape were upset about, and they had quite clearly filed a specific patent on that idea.
While I agree that $26 million was a bit steep, I think this was (probably unintentional) patent infringement.
This case, though, is pretty broad. I don't think the idea of MMOGs is patentable, necessarily, though architectural specifics (which is kinda what this sounds like it's really about) might be.
In any case, I'm sure some form of justice will be had.
According to the omniscient Wiki, and as I suspected; Blizzard is a French owned company which has it's headquarters based in the US. Also if his patent is in effect from '95 then it is void as you can't patent something someone already came up with, and mmos have been around long before that. He's a fraud and needs to be gank raided by bears....do they have those in Texas?SuperMse said:
Oh please. What a whiny little idiot.
Because now there's preposterous amounts of money in the MMOG business, which he thinks he's entitled to. His project didn't make him ridiculously rich, so he's trying to make money off of others' success.drop2zero said:
does this guy have some kinda brain damage or does he actually think he was the first person to think up the idea of mmog's?
Blizzard need to just place a simple statement on the front page of Wow's site.
'Thom Kidrin wishes to destroy WOW in its entirety, and although we know he lives at this address and works here between these times, having had him watched, we certainly would not condone any slightly unhinged addict who felt threatened taking things into his own hands.'
this isn't like Lovecraft suing Stephen King, this is more like BradyGames, the makers of videogame guide books, suing Dan Brown for using their concept of printing words on paper and selling them, whilst not saying a damn thing until he releases the Da Vinci Code and actually has enough to make it worth suing.
I just finding it harder and harder to think of a suitable justice system. Lawyers are corrupt fuckers just trying to drag out cases to make more money, judges seem to either be clueless, out of touch, or completely senile, and juries...well, they're the public, and we all know how good at decision making THEY are.
'Hey, he's suing some forun guy, we don' like foruners, so they're guilty!'
'Thom Kidrin wishes to destroy WOW in its entirety, and although we know he lives at this address and works here between these times, having had him watched, we certainly would not condone any slightly unhinged addict who felt threatened taking things into his own hands.'
this isn't like Lovecraft suing Stephen King, this is more like BradyGames, the makers of videogame guide books, suing Dan Brown for using their concept of printing words on paper and selling them, whilst not saying a damn thing until he releases the Da Vinci Code and actually has enough to make it worth suing.
I just finding it harder and harder to think of a suitable justice system. Lawyers are corrupt fuckers just trying to drag out cases to make more money, judges seem to either be clueless, out of touch, or completely senile, and juries...well, they're the public, and we all know how good at decision making THEY are.
'Hey, he's suing some forun guy, we don' like foruners, so they're guilty!'
