Xbox Owner Sues Microsoft for $500 Billion (Yes, Billion)

[robert01]

If he wins this, I have officially lost faith in humanity as a whole. This isn't "teaching corporates a lesson for consumers", this is just a fucking idiot, trying to legally scam his way to insane wealth. Technically that whole "do not respond in 24hrs I win" thing is bullshit. Don't you have to first pass it through court and all that shit first for it to be legal? otherwise I could just walk into any shop and go "yeah you didn't respond, I own all this now"

Pretty much that.
You can't just say hey unless you respond in 24 hours all your bases belong to us.
The guy even said he sent the documents by mail. Legal cases don't work like that. Up here in Canada if you even want to get a divorce you have to get the paper work couriered. Dude is going to lose in a fiery bath of his own stupidity.

 

[immortalfrieza]

If this actually goes anywhere, I wish him luck. I absolutely hate the "the Terms of Service are subject to change without notice" part of so many contracts. Practice like that should be illegal. And though I know there's no way he'll get the absurdly large amount of money he thinks they owe him, even if it ends in settlement it'll make things change.

That, and the fact that nobody even reads the terms of service anyway, and that's because:

1.The TOS are made as long, complicated, and boring as possible, far more so than they need to be so that nobody WANTS to read them.

2. They all say roughly the same thing, and that is " do not infringe on our copyright, and our company is not responsible for anything that could possibly happen, even the things we are clearly responsible for."

3. Unless they happened to work in law, nobody is even going to UNDERSTAND the TOS to know whether they're going to be screwed over thanks to overly and unnecessarily complicated legal jargon.

As for this guy, he's neither going to get 500 Billion or make a point, this is going to be immediately thrown out by the first judge that sees this case and have no impact on either corporation's business practices or any laws whatsoever, this case isn't going to accomplish anything at all.

 

[immortalfrieza]

If he wins this, I have officially lost faith in humanity as a whole. This isn't "teaching corporates a lesson for consumers", this is just a fucking idiot, trying to legally scam his way to insane wealth. Technically that whole "do not respond in 24hrs I win" thing is bullshit. Don't you have to first pass it through court and all that shit first for it to be legal? otherwise I could just walk into any shop and go "yeah you didn't respond, I own all this now"

Pretty much that.
You can't just say hey unless you respond in 24 hours all your bases belong to us.
The guy even said he sent the documents by mail. Legal cases don't work like that. Up here in Canada if you even want to get a divorce you have to get the paper work couriered. Dude is going to lose in a fiery bath of his own stupidity.

It wouldn't surprise me at ALL if this guy won, there are far, far more ridiculous moments in law than this one.

 

[robert01]

If he wins this, I have officially lost faith in humanity as a whole. This isn't "teaching corporates a lesson for consumers", this is just a fucking idiot, trying to legally scam his way to insane wealth. Technically that whole "do not respond in 24hrs I win" thing is bullshit. Don't you have to first pass it through court and all that shit first for it to be legal? otherwise I could just walk into any shop and go "yeah you didn't respond, I own all this now"

Pretty much that.
You can't just say hey unless you respond in 24 hours all your bases belong to us.
The guy even said he sent the documents by mail. Legal cases don't work like that. Up here in Canada if you even want to get a divorce you have to get the paper work couriered. Dude is going to lose in a fiery bath of his own stupidity.

It wouldn't surprise me at ALL if this guy won, there are far, far more ridiculous moments in law than this one.

He won't win, because everything he did to make is case 'legal' he didn't actually do. Microsoft might settle so he goes away, but it won't even be for .0000001% if what he is asking for because he is asking for such an insane amount of money.

 

[Karma168]

Idiot, should have given them 90 days to respond (think thats a usual time frame) instead of a day. It's like saying "read the entire works of Shakespeare in less than an hour or you owe me £10 trillion" there is no way it would have been physically possible for the letter to be reviewed and responded to in less than a day; It would take about a week for the legal team to find all the case law alone. And they are not going to respond with legal answers without knowing where they stand.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

If this guy sees even 0.001% of that money, I will eat my own face.

0.001% of 500,000,000,000 is 500,000,000. or in other words, 500 million, rather than billion.

Actually it's 5,000,000 not 500,000,000. 500,000,000 would be 0.1% of 500 billion.

 

[immortalfrieza]

If he wins this, I have officially lost faith in humanity as a whole. This isn't "teaching corporates a lesson for consumers", this is just a fucking idiot, trying to legally scam his way to insane wealth. Technically that whole "do not respond in 24hrs I win" thing is bullshit. Don't you have to first pass it through court and all that shit first for it to be legal? otherwise I could just walk into any shop and go "yeah you didn't respond, I own all this now"

Pretty much that.
You can't just say hey unless you respond in 24 hours all your bases belong to us.
The guy even said he sent the documents by mail. Legal cases don't work like that. Up here in Canada if you even want to get a divorce you have to get the paper work couriered. Dude is going to lose in a fiery bath of his own stupidity.

It wouldn't surprise me at ALL if this guy won, there are far, far more ridiculous moments in law than this one.

He won't win, because everything he did to make is case 'legal' he didn't actually do. Microsoft might settle so he goes away, but it won't even be for .0000001% if what he is asking for because he is asking for such an insane amount of money.

I don't expect him to win either, just saying that much more stupid things have happened.

 

[ultrachicken]

This just sounds like the latest asshole trying to exploit the system under a banner of good intentions. Even if he were to win, has he considered how much damage this might do? Microsoft isn't some faceless, amorphous blob of automatons, it's a company filled with real people, and if the company lost half a fucking trillion dollars, you can bet that plenty of those people would suffer.

 

[Saulkar]

*cites wikipedia article*

Yeah that explains everything. Aspergers has nothing to do with this.

 

[Zing]

It's also far from Stebbins' only lawsuit; he's filed more than a dozen within the past year, including similar far-fetched attempts at contract arbitration and claims of hiring discrimination because of his Asperger's Syndrome.

LOL, is this guy a joke? I was with him until this, I thought he was making a statement against Microsoft and company's changing their terms. But this is sad and ridiculous.

Unless you're applying for a job that requires extensive social skills, Asperger's is not going to hinder you, mentally or physically. And even then it can be overcome, and you just wouldn't be getting the job because you can't do it, not because of discrimination.

Millions of people successfully hide Asperger's for years, or even their whole life. It's a crutch excuse for something that can be overcome(poor social skills). And yes, I'm talking about people who have actually been diagnosed by a doctors as well as the stupid self-diagnosis people.

 

[Saulkar]

Xbox Owner Sues Microsoft for $500 Billion (Yes, Billion)

claims of hiring discrimination because of his Asperger's Syndrome.

Well that explains it right there. Aspergers - A medical term thrown around by those who act like dicks and don't care.

Which royally pisses off the ones of us who ACTUALLY HAVE IT!

Seriously fuckheads like this make everyone give us even more shit than they do normally. Mind you that they tend to give us quite a lot of shit normally to because we do not conform to their idea of how people should think and act.

I half wanted to sue some employers for discrimination, particular when it was an easy enough crap job I was doing fine, and they gave the most bullshit reasons for it. Granted I didn't as I figured I'd never win it, and I'm not fully sure that was the reason, and particularly I didn't know I had it at the time and did not disclose it which would have probably covered their asses even though they may well discriminated against me for stupid reasons which that is just related to my disorder.

Besides, even though society screws me over fairly royally, repeatedly for shit I can't help like this, I don't act like a dick to other people and assume they should bend over backwards for me for stupid things.

Honestly I want to hurt this fuck, even if he really is an aspie, he's also a colossal asshole and is making us all look bad, regardless of whether or not he actually does have the disorder.

Thing is he has absolutely no intention of winning at all. He is being a dick and askng for a completely hopeless amount of money for the sole purpose gaining attention that can be directed to asinine business practices related to the EULA/TOS agreements. Though being human I would not doubt that he would like to see at least a microscopic fraction of that dow. Lastly he never once brought up Aspergers as a reason for sueing Microsoft or to further his cause. It was related to workplace discrimination on an entirely separate occasion. The details of which however I am not aware of.

 

[Astoria]

Lol what. I might have taken him seriously if he'd chosen a realistic amount of money but come on. Going on those quotes he just sounds like a idiot after some easy money.

 

[badgersprite]

Contracts. Don't. Work that way.

Hoo, boy, just reading about this made me want to write an essay. I should show this to my law faculty. They would get such a laugh out of this.

 

[Clonekiller]

This just sounds like the latest asshole trying to exploit the system under a banner of good intentions. Even if he were to win, has he considered how much damage this might do? Microsoft isn't some faceless, amorphous blob of automatons, it's a company filled with real people, and if the company lost half a fucking trillion dollars, you can bet that plenty of those people would suffer.

Agrees. Suing a large company when you have been wronged makes sense. Suing a large company, for inane amounts of money, just because you can, is a pretty lousy thing to do. It's easy to think of a corporation as a giant faceless entity, but the fact of the mater is that these said corporations supply thousands of jobs and services, not to mention the several hundred thousand people that gain income from their stock holding in the company. Suing for some asinine reason, which can probably be boiled down to a desire to hurt the company, is just plain wrong. And, if by some cosmically wacked turn of events, this guy won, you can bet that the company would downsize, thousands would lose their jobs, and goodness knows how many projects and programs would be cut. Regardless of how much a corporation might urk you, that's nothing compared to jerks like this guy.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

i think for one think i have to acept terms and conditions before i'm allowed to continue service.
there is no default acceptance if i do not agree within a certain amount of time, to my knowlledge.
i may not understand fully what i've accepted, but thats a different matter

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

Hahaha. Just another troll out to make money. Typical.

That was my first though as well, but wait...

He's not actually doing anything worse than Apple, Microsoft, Sony do every day. Their EULA's are chockful of jargon that are sometimes...playful with their legal ramifications, and even the Miranda warning ("You have the right to remain silent") isn't legally binding unless you understand it fully. (Which is why the Police have to be sure that you've heard it)

Now this guy may, and probably is, way out on the con; but in doing so, he may inadvertently put restrictions in motion that stop Microsoft from, say, banning you from Xbox from a false positive from their cheating system.

Because at the moment, you have no recompense to that apart from a call to PR.

Obviously, major companies need a certain leeway in defining their terms and conditions - and obviously legal precedents override legal loopholes, but actually having court cases that the lawyers can bring up to say "Hold on a tic, you said in blah versus blah that this couldn't happen." may yet be a gain for the legitimate consumer.

Kinda sounds like a dick. Sorry, but I have no time for fools like this. Of course he won't win anything, no one will take this twat seriously.

He doesn't seem to be out to make money, he's just chosen a ridiculous sum of money to get attention for the point he's trying to make.

Which I actually support, because the stupid sleight of hand that companies employ, as well as the hoops they make customers jump through, are a fucking pain in the arse.

I agree with you guys too, however I'm not sure this will do more than grant media attention - and looking at the responses not many will understand his point.

On the other hand, how DO you stop big companies jerking the little guy around? I've not heard of anyone winning against SONY after they removed an advertised feature (Linux support).

 

[Phoenixlight]

He really should have printed the documents off and followed up. Also, why the fuck did youtube take his channel down?!

 

[Odin442]

I agree that there have to be rules for companies as well as for citizens, and it would be nice if they were fair all around, but under the current rules, what exactly prevents some Microsoft lawyer from going before a judge, shrugging, and saying, "Oh, that? Yeah, we changed the contract right back five minutes after we got the letter, just figured his continued use of Xbox Live was implicit agreement on his part."

 

[GideonB]

So ohaider idiocy
We meet again
Seriously though, this guy should stop right now.
This is a stupid charge to be filing for half a fucking trillion dollars
Die in a Fire
Sincerely,
People who work at Microsoft/anyone with Common Sense

Oh crap I'm going to get warned/banned for that.