This is why I feel the whole concept of intellectual property rights needs to be overhauled.

This can go ahead and be filed along with the "crazys". The patent is to protect your intellectual property, sure, but let's be frank. Unless WoW and Second life accually stole their server, or constructed it with the very program that was being pattened, they don't owe anyone anything. Their work, their profit.

Then there will have to be a court battle.... His lawyers vs Blizzards army of gentically made Half shark, half demon lawyers trained from birth to practice law and perform the occasional assassin ritual.

KILL KILL MURDER KILL
Now that's out of my system, he's at it AGAIN?! Can't wait for the one BS case to process, he has to go all chaffrocket on everyone at once?

Zac_Dai:
This is why I feel the whole concept of intellectual property rights needs to be overhauled.

Totally agreed. This is the like the dumbest concept ever. It's not like the first person to think of an original idea, will be the first to implement it.

drop2zero:
Why would he wait this long to start suing? 3D MMOs have been around for a long time now.

True, but it's only since the advent of Ultima online, Everquest, World of Warcraft etc. that they've become both massively successful and more importantly massive money makers. It's not surprising some greedy soul out there wants a piece of that pie. I hope they get nothing!

Thom Kidrin can eat a dick.

That is all.

? This dumb ass dose relies if they win and the law suits kills WoW that million of nerds would then turn there hate and the time they used to spin on the games towards to ruing there lives.

Blizzard and Linden Lab aren't foreign though, so I don't see what the paragraph about being a foreign defendant has to do with them. NCsoft, yes, but not them. Anyways, this entire case is ridiculous. If they violated something more specific, or ripped off one of your games, then sure you might have something there, but you can't own an entire genre. This is like if the Pitfall makers sued all games with jumping in them.

i would think this was stupidly funny... until i remember that the court really did beat nintendo out of some cash.

which means its going to suck to be a massive multiplayer online when this stuff begins.

This is just such a wonderful way to help out multiple businesses during economic times of crisis.
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Sarcasm.

I think what you also have to keep in mind as has been stated that MMO's have been around for a good while now. If you'll recall Everquest was the king of MMO's in the 90's why was nothing done at that time this is just a terrible case of spoiled grapes

yeah these Frivolous Patent-Trolling Lawsuits are doing wonders for the economy I'm sure.

Also shouldn't Neal Stephenson be getting residuals because of the Virtual World he came up with in Snow Crash? ;)

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.

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.

LOL good luck suing blizzard is all i gotta say, they will fornicate your skull while using your sphincter as a condom..

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This is just such a wonderful way to help out multiple businesses during economic times of crisis.
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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.

This'll sure be interesting to watch. Quite intruiging, even though I believe Blizzard should win.

Onmi:
The worlds problem is not that it is full of fools. It is that lightning is not distributed properly.

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.

angryscotsman93:

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.

Just fuckin' try it. We have more guns than you.
<edit> We also produce and process a huge portion of your oil. Enjoy your inflated gas prices, suckers! </edit>
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.

confernal:
Then there will have to be a court battle.... His lawyers vs Blizzards army of gentically made Half shark, half demon lawyers trained from birth to practice law and perform the occasional assassin ritual.

I would pay to see that.

SuperMse:
Blizzard and Linden Lab aren't foreign though, so I don't see what the paragraph about being a foreign defendant has to do with them. NCsoft, yes, but not them. Anyways, this entire case is ridiculous. If they violated something more specific, or ripped off one of your games, then sure you might have something there, but you can't own an entire genre. This is like if the Pitfall makers sued all games with jumping in them.

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?

Thom Kidrin should go play in traffic.

wow what a fucking retard thats all i can even say to this level of terminal idoicy