Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

Geek Culture / Unusual lawsuit against Microsoft

Author
Message
Accoun
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Jan 2006
Location: The other end of the galaxy...
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 11:22
Link
Well, I'm speechless. Just read it...
http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=952316

Make games, not war.

Back to top
Profile PM
Alucard94
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Jul 2007
Location: Stockholm, Sweden.
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 11:52
Link
That's... Wow.


Alucard94, the member of the future of the past.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
White Fang 12
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 28th Aug 2007
Location: In my office coding
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 12:11
Link
I um. er. I dont know what to say. Alucard you just summed it up.

I'm a noob help will be accepted
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Roxas
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 11th Nov 2005
Location: http://forum.thegamecreators.com
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 12:22
Link
Well.. Lets see how this turns out.

Back to top
Profile PM Email
BatVink
Moderator
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Apr 2003
Location: Gods own County, UK
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 12:53
Link
Brain-control, this is ridiculous. Microsoft and Wal-Mart are innocent, buy their products now. I live my life by Microsoft and Wal-Mart, buy their products now. They are innocent, buy now.

Back to top
Profile PM Email
Alucard94
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Jul 2007
Location: Stockholm, Sweden.
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 12:57
Link
A sales person at a store tried to fool me into buying something... I KNOW! Lets sue him for 2 billion dollars!


Alucard94, the member of the future of the past.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
CoffeeGrunt
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Oct 2007
Location: England
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 13:48
Link
.....

Some people!

Back to top
Profile PM Email
Zotoaster
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 20th Dec 2004
Location: Scotland
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 13:55
Link
He probably just wanted his name on the news

Back to top
Profile PM Email
Oolite
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 28th Sep 2005
Location: Middle of the West
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 13:57
Link
This is brilliant, people really will try anything to get money.


...i hope he wins.


<yes, the link doesn't work, deal with it.>
Back to top
Profile PM Website
draknir_
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 19th Oct 2006
Location: Netherlands
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 14:06
Link
That Judge is a freakin' idiot.

That, or his job is really mind numbingly boring so he decided to spice it up. Maybe next time he can do it without costing companies legal fees they really shouldn't have to pay.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
David R
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Sep 2003
Location: 3.14
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 14:11
Link
Although this lawsuit is obviously ridiculous, it does raise an interesting point if brain-computer interfaces ever become widespread


09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Sid Sinister
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Jul 2005
Location:
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 17:42
Link
Lol, that's crazy. I say good on the judge though. If Microsofts wastes our time and money with crappy OS releases and bugs and work arounds, then I say let's waste their time and money in court. Just the fact that it's a crazy case rubs it in even further lol.

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants" - Isaac Newton
-Computer Animation Major @Baker.edu-
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Green Gandalf
VIP Member
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 3rd Jan 2005
Playing: Malevolence:Sword of Ahkranox, Skyrim, Civ6.
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 17:46 Edited at: 15th Nov 2008 17:53
Link
IIRC mind control of a sort IS possible - unless the frame-rates used by monitors have been chosen to eliminate it.

"Subliminal advertising", more correctly "subliminal suggestion", works by repeatedly displaying an image for a brief instant in the middle of a sequence of regular images. So, for example, an image of a refreshing cool beer could replace every 50th image produced by the regular scene (which could simply be your Windows desktop "scene"). The point is that the rogue image is displayed so briefly your conscious mind doesn't notice it - but the sub-conscious mind does and is affected accordingly. "Subliminal advertising" is a well-documented phenomenon known since the early days of cinema and television and is illegal ... at least I think it is. Perhaps it's not illegal in Canada?

Edit And here is a very interesting link on the topic:

subliminal advertising

Beyond that rather remote possibility the claim does seem rather bizarre.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Satchmo
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 29th May 2005
Location:
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 17:49
Link
Are you saying.... Microsoft advertises beer? That's why it's so good!

Back to top
Profile PM
Green Gandalf
VIP Member
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 3rd Jan 2005
Playing: Malevolence:Sword of Ahkranox, Skyrim, Civ6.
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 17:54
Link
Quote: "Are you saying.... Microsoft advertises beer? That's why it's so good!"


It could explain a lot.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
tha_rami
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 25th Mar 2006
Location: Netherlands
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 18:48
Link
Odd. If he's under mind-control, why is filing a lawsuit?

Quite bad mind-control, maybe?


A mod has been erased by your signature because it was larger than 600x120
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
White Fang 12
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 28th Aug 2007
Location: In my office coding
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 20:00 Edited at: 15th Nov 2008 20:02
Link
I believe the guy, i looked at the case for windows vista and found inverted pentagrams. Why did i buy vista anyways after the one update for xp, i had the need to buy it. Strange i now want to burn my mac book.
But really I don't think microsoft is preforming Satanic rituals, or practising witchcraft and if they are can you sue for that.

this is how i feel about his lawsuit.


I'm a noob help will be accepted

Attachments

Login to view attachments
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Green Gandalf
VIP Member
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 3rd Jan 2005
Playing: Malevolence:Sword of Ahkranox, Skyrim, Civ6.
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 20:17
Link
Quote: "If he's under mind-control, why is filing a lawsuit?"


Who said it was MS controlling his mind?
Back to top
Profile PM Email
ionstream
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Jul 2004
Location: Overweb
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 20:17
Link
Hello citizens! There is no conspiracy, Microsoft is COOL with the times! Let us all enjoy a rad soda pop and play a video game celebrating our independence and uniqueness, our minds at ease.

Quote: "If Microsofts wastes our time and money with crappy OS releases and bugs and work arounds, then I say let's waste their time and money in court."


Why did they never invent that stabbing-people-across-the-internet device .

Back to top
Profile PM Website
draknir_
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 19th Oct 2006
Location: Netherlands
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 21:22
Link
Quote: "Lol, that's crazy. I say good on the judge though. If Microsofts wastes our time and money with crappy OS releases and bugs and work arounds, then I say let's waste their time and money in court. Just the fact that it's a crazy case rubs it in even further lol."


If making a supposedly 'crappy' OS is punishable by law, then you should bring a lawsuit against them. Justifying this absurdity like you just did is ridiculous, it's just bullcrap and that judge obviously is an idiot.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Omega gamer 89
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Sep 2007
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 21:24
Link
WHY does everyone I hear from think Vista is "Crappy"? Vista is 10 times better than XP, and I have never seen any of the supposed problems people have.
I honestly believe most of these "problems" are made up.


www.threeswordsproductions.com
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Grandma
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Dec 2005
Location: Norway, Guiding the New World Order
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 21:51
Link
Quote: "WHY does everyone I hear from think Vista is "Crappy"? Vista is 10 times better than XP, and I have never seen any of the supposed problems people have.
I honestly believe most of these "problems" are made up."

And here we go.

This message was brought to you by Grandma industries.

Making yesterdays games, today!
Back to top
Profile PM Email
David R
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Sep 2003
Location: 3.14
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 22:07
Link
Quote: "Vista is 10 times better than XP, and I have never seen any of the supposed problems people have."


Why "fix" what isn't broken?


09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Satchmo
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 29th May 2005
Location:
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 22:17
Link
The Super Nintendo wasn't broken, but now we have the WII, the Xbox etc.

Back to top
Profile PM
Alucard94
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Jul 2007
Location: Stockholm, Sweden.
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 22:32
Link
Quote: "And here we go.
"

You forgot the again. Your sentence just became invalid by the lack of it.


Alucard94, the member of the future of the past.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Benjamin
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Nov 2002
Location: France
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 22:36
Link
Yay, OS war!

Quote: "Why "fix" what isn't broken?"

It's called business I think.

Quote: "Vista is 10 times better than XP"

Well, if you say so. It does have UAC and such, but other than that I can't really see what's so good about it. I prefer XP.

Oh and funny article.

Multisync - TCP Server/Client Multiplayer Plugin (DBP/DBCe)
Back to top
Profile PM Email
CoffeeGrunt
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Oct 2007
Location: England
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 22:44
Link
Vista, I've got it, it's ok, I like it.....

That's it really...

Back to top
Profile PM Email
David R
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Sep 2003
Location: 3.14
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 22:58
Link
Quote: "It's called business I think."


No, my point is, rather than incrementally improving, or drastically changing the OS, MS merely sort of 'restarted' but only built it back up the feature set of the original, if not less - and with drastically inferior performance on the same hardware. Where's the progress?


09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Benjamin
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Nov 2002
Location: France
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 23:19
Link
I don't know. Maybe MS are retarded.

Multisync - TCP Server/Client Multiplayer Plugin (DBP/DBCe)
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Benji
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 17th Dec 2005
Location: Mount Doom
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 23:45 Edited at: 15th Nov 2008 23:47
Link
Quote: "I don't know. Maybe MS are retarded."


Maybe MS is a genius for creating the best looking AND best performing OS ever made.

I find it funny when people whine about an OS (or anything) just because they hear other people complaining about it. And that's not directed at you, Benjamin.

EDIT

Oh yeah. What a stupid judge...

My signature is empty.
Back to top
Profile PM
Benjamin
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Nov 2002
Location: France
Posted: 15th Nov 2008 23:50
Link
Quote: "Maybe MS is a genius for creating the best looking AND best performing OS ever made. "

And then they followed up with Vista. I'm thinking the same thing as David R (although I'm cooler).

Multisync - TCP Server/Client Multiplayer Plugin (DBP/DBCe)
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Benji
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 17th Dec 2005
Location: Mount Doom
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 00:00
Link
Quote: "And then they followed up with Vista."

...and created an even better OS! I don't know what this nonsense about "restarting" is about. I'd say there are large differences between XP and Vista. One that comes to my mind, DX10? Also, the start menu, all programs menu, window switcher, and a lot more.

My signature is empty.
Back to top
Profile PM
Benjamin
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Nov 2002
Location: France
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 00:22 Edited at: 16th Nov 2008 00:23
Link
Quote: "One that comes to my mind, DX10?"

You like the fact that they didn't let it work on XP?

Quote: "the start menu"

...Sucks, in my opinion. I much prefer XP's. I also prefer the way certain settings are accessed in XP, such as theme/wallpaper/power management/etc, in Vista everything seems separated so much that it takes longer to adjust these things. As for the window switcher, I'm not particularly bothered.


Not that any of this is on topic with the thread.

Multisync - TCP Server/Client Multiplayer Plugin (DBP/DBCe)
Back to top
Profile PM Email
AndrewT
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 11th Feb 2007
Location: MI, USA
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 00:26
Link
Quote: "I also prefer the way certain settings are accessed in XP, such as theme/wallpaper/power management/etc, in Vista everything seems separated so much that it takes longer to adjust these things"


Oh ya, cause Ctrl+Right Click then clicking 'Personalize' takes a lot of work, right?

Back to top
Profile PM
Benjamin
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Nov 2002
Location: France
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 00:32
Link
I'm sorry, where's that rather quick tabbed window XP had where you could just click through the tabs to look at all the settings?

Oh, that appears to be what I'm referring to.

Multisync - TCP Server/Client Multiplayer Plugin (DBP/DBCe)
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Phaelax
DBPro Master
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th Apr 2003
Location: Metropia
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 01:32
Link
Quote: " if brain-computer interfaces ever become widespread"


OCZ's brain mouse???


Whatever the real reason for the lawsuit, Mr. Rose claims they stole an invention of his and he has proof. I'd love to see what this proof is.


Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Aaron Miller
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 25th Feb 2006
Playing: osu!
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 01:52
Link
*sigh* I really hate going off current page to load another page... It's like a symbolic link (shortcut) that you have to follow manually :/.

Quote: "NANAIMO, B. C. - A judge has refused to dismiss a civil lawsuit brought by a B. C. man who is seeking $2-billion in damages from Microsoft, Telus, Wal-Mart, the RCMP and other defendants over alleged brain-wave control, satanic rituals and witchcraft.

Justice Fraser Wilson heard from five lawyers on Monday, who argued that the case brought forward by Jerry Rose is so outrageous it should be dismissed.

Mr. Rose's claim says "he has been subject to invasive brain computer interface technology, research, experiments, field studies and surgery" and also names the University of B. C. and B. C. College of Physicians and Surgeons as defendants.

Jennifer Millbank, a Nanaimo lawyer hired to represent Microsoft in the case, said that Mr. Rose's two-page statement of claim is "nothing short of bizarre" and that it would be "impossible this would ever be a case for trial on the merits."

But Judge Wilson, while admitting the case was "certainly an unusual one," said he had to be convinced there was nothing in Mr. Rose's claim that could be litigated.

Ms. Millbank said there is no scientific evidence to prove brain control is a possibility.

"I think this is akin to someone saying they sustained injuries because their boat fell off the edge of

the world," said Ms. Millbank. "My clients ought not to be subjected to what is a nuisance lawsuit."

Judge Wilson raised the notorious case of a CIA-sponsored experiment at McGill University between 1957 and 1964 in which people without their consent were given LSD and other drugs. But Ms. Millbank said that in this case there are no material facts that a court could act upon.

Microsoft had no direct contact with Mr. Rose, and his statement of claim gives no details on how or when the defendants may have harmed him, Ms. Millbank said.

Mr. Rose, reading from a three-page statement, said the mind-control harassment continues with "brain-drain technologies" under the RCMP and tactics to prevent his case from going forward.

Mr. Rose said he is asking for $2-billion because of a computer technology he invented that was stolen from him. "I'm not a lawyer, but I have proof," Mr. Rose said."


Cheers,

-naota

I'm not a dictator to those that do stuff for me by will. Only those who don't.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
LD52
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 31st Aug 2006
Location: Internet
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 05:07
Link
I find the last sentence of the article to be the most interesting:
Quote: "
Mr. Rose said he is asking for $2-billion because of a computer technology he invented that was stolen from him. "I'm not a lawyer, but I have proof," Mr. Rose said."


Wonder what technology he's talking about.
Back to top
Profile PM
Omega gamer 89
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Sep 2007
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 06:50 Edited at: 16th Nov 2008 06:53
Link
OK, I will NOT start another "Omega argument", as Alucard called them.
I will not discuss which OS works/looks "better" because that is largely opinion-based.
What i was talking about, is that people say there are all these problems with Vista crashing and running slow and being unstable and blah blee blah bleebedy blah...
I'm fairly certain that NONE of these problems exist. I have never experienced them, and I have the same Vista that every other Vista user has. There can't be a bug on one copy of Vista and no bug on another copy of the exact same OS. If You messed something up by tinkering with the system, or you get a virus, that's YOUR fault. The OS itself has no problem. It MAY be a hardware thing, that Vista runs weird on certain hardware. But the OS itself is totally fine.
Really, I think that Microsoft should sue Apple for the commercials they are putting out. They are blatantly advertising lies. They have said that "Apple is the number one Laptop on college campuses nationwide." That is by no means true. I have never seen a single Mac laptop on my campus (PTI), my friend's old campus (CMU) my friend's current campus (CCAC) or my sister's campus (Pitt). I have seen hundreds of windows laptops on these campuses, and just about everywhere I go. Maybe "mac>Windows" is true in one little bizzaro-world town, but not in Pennsylvania. They also say that Vista has all those problems, which is also false advertising.


www.threeswordsproductions.com
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Deathead
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 14th Oct 2006
Location:
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 10:33
Link
Quote: "Quote: "If he's under mind-control, why is filing a lawsuit?"

Who said it was MS controlling his mind? "

Yeah, it could be Mac joint with Sony to take down MS once and for all.


"Your greatest teacher is your harshest critic"-Butterfingers
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Alucard94
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Jul 2007
Location: Stockholm, Sweden.
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 10:50
Link
Quote: "I'm fairly certain that NONE of these problems exist. I have never experienced them, and I have the same Vista that every other Vista user has."

So because you didn't experience it means that it doesn't exist?
And I'm not saying Vista is bad, I've never tried it in fact, but from what I've heard it's pretty good.


Quote: "OK, I will NOT start another "Omega argument", as Alucard called them.
"


I hope not.

Anyways, it would be sort of hilarious if the guy who sued them actually won. I would seriously LOL in real life.


Alucard94, the member of the future of the past.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Phaelax
DBPro Master
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th Apr 2003
Location: Metropia
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 11:15
Link
Quote: "I'm fairly certain that NONE of these problems exis"


So all those updates and patches MS releases for Vista are for what then? I supported Vista for multiple developers, trust me there are issues. A fresh install of Vista versus XP runs slower. I won't get into the UI differences, thats all a matter of opinion. Vista has known issues with its print spooler failing constantly and needing the service restarted. MS has admitted this and documented a not so user-friendly fix for it. Have you ever tried running VMware on Vista? With a 2Ghz core 2 duo and 3gb of ram, it was unbarebly slow for all the developers. Outlook was another issue, though I'm not sure if was Vista's problem or Outlook itself. Oh, and remember the whole issue with PCs marked as "Vista Ready" but barely had the horsepower to boot the stupid OS? MS waaay undershot the minimum specs for Vista when they sent out their stickers to Dell and others.

However, many other problems have been incompatibilities, mostly from software that ran fine on XP but not in Vista. This isn't necessarily MS's fault (unless they claimed Vista was 100% backwards compatible). Many problems are from 3rd party developers, but I'd be willing to bet at least 20% of the problems are from MS's end.

I still prefer Win2k, but will admit XP is a little more stable. I used Win2k for 7 years and rarely saw BSOD. But in XP I've never seen BSOD that wasn't related to a hardware failure. Vista? Well, it hasn't managed to run fast enough for me to even be able to use it the amount I have the others. It loads waaay too many services, uses ungodly amounts of ram, and all for what? My Windows experience didn't improve any.

People can argue all they want whether Vista is better or not. But I'd like to know what Vista has brought to the table that XP doesn't have. If Vista doesn't have all the problems that people claim it has, and everyone already knows how good XP is, then what's the point of Vista? What makes it better? Because so far, the best I've seen from anyone is that Vista is just as good as XP but nothing claiming as to what makes it better.


Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David R
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Sep 2003
Location: 3.14
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 12:21
Link
Quote: "It's like a symbolic link (shortcut) "


If you're going to use an analogy, at least use one that works (symlinks != shortcuts)


09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Plystire
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 18th Feb 2003
Location: Staring into the digital ether
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 12:38
Link
What would possess someone to file such a lawsuit? He's most likely not going to win and he'll just end up paying for some rediculous court fee.

If he DOES win, it'll end up as another legendary lawsuit, such as the "My McDonald's coffee was too hot and there wasn't a warning label telling me that! I DEMAND A MILLION DOLLARS!"


@Omega:

But nothing Apple has done is illegal. They're allowed to advertise like that. It doesn't even have to be true!

I wish it WOULD be illegal to advertise such things without justification, but it's not.

And what would Microsoft gain from filing a lawsuit against Apple other than appearing butt hurt over a few lousy commercials? They already have all the money they'd ever need.


The one and only,


Those who live in the past, are destined to insanity. Those who live only for the future, will be slaves to their ambitions.
Those who live in the moment... only they, are truly happy.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Satchmo
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 29th May 2005
Location:
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 16:32
Link
Quote: "But nothing Apple has done is illegal. They're allowed to advertise like that. It doesn't even have to be true!

I wish it WOULD be illegal to advertise such things without justification, but it's not.

And what would Microsoft gain from filing a lawsuit against Apple other than appearing butt hurt over a few lousy commercials? They already have all the money they'd ever need."


The commercials are one of the reasons I don't like Apple, it's just such a sleezy tactic, meanwhile Microsoft doesn't sink so low and desperate. I guess it just shows what a crappy company Apple is.

Back to top
Profile PM
zenassem
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Mar 2003
Location: Long Island, NY
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 16:48
Link
This lawsuit is just as unusual! lol!

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/05/1658215

Quote: "
Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate
Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 05, @12:46PM
from the they-don't-come-much-more-zany-than-this dept.
Benjamin Duranske writes

"Jonathan Lee Riches, an inmate in South Carolina famous for filing long, handwritten, rambling screeds against celebrities, politicians, and even buildings, has filed a third-party motion in Federal Court in Arizona in the MDY v. Blizzard botting case claiming that Blizzard's World of Warcraft 'caused Riches mind to live in a virtual universe, where Riches explored the landscape committing identity theft and fighting cybermonster rival hacker gangs. Riches was addicted to video games and lost touch with reality because of defendants. This caused Riches to commit fraud to buy defendants video games. Riches chose World of Warcraft over working a legit job, Riches mind became a living video game.'"
"



...And this guy has a long history of these types of lawsuits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Lee_Riches

Quote: "
On April 9, 2008, Riches filed a request for a temporary restraining order in a US District Court against Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two, developer Rockstar Games, FCI Williamsburg, and Grand Theft Auto itself, claiming that the defendants "put me in prison." The inmate stated, "Defendants contributed to Plaintiff committing identity theft. Defendant's games show sex, drugs and violence which offends me." Riches continued, "Defendants put me in prison. I face imminent danger from violent inmates who played Grand Theft Auto who will knock me out and take my gold Jesus cross."[17]
"


"When I look at that square... I wish FPSC noobs would stay on their side of the forums and stop polluting these boards." - Benjamin
Back to top
Profile PM Email
David R
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Sep 2003
Location: 3.14
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 18:33 Edited at: 16th Nov 2008 18:39
Link
Quote: "The commercials are one of the reasons I don't like Apple, it's just such a sleezy tactic, meanwhile Microsoft doesn't sink so low and desperate. I guess it just shows what a crappy company Apple is"


I assume you haven't seen any of the "Get the facts" campaigns? MS is far far worse in terms of misleading tactics and FUD - Apple have only just cottoned on to using it against them (rather ingeniously, because the attitude to Vista seems to be generally sour, and Apple is merely giving MS a taste of their own medicine in terms of FUD)


09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Satchmo
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 29th May 2005
Location:
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 21:43
Link
Yes, I have. The majority of the claims MS made are true.

Back to top
Profile PM
ionstream
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Jul 2004
Location: Overweb
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 22:01
Link
In my opinion Apple can say what they want. They have a much smaller influence in the computer market and I don't think that a significant amount of people take those commercials seriously.

Back to top
Profile PM Website
Alucard94
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Jul 2007
Location: Stockholm, Sweden.
Posted: 16th Nov 2008 23:11
Link
Those commercials are probably meant as jokes.


Alucard94, the member of the future of the past.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2025-06-08 10:04:42
Your offset time is: 2025-06-08 10:04:42