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Infinium Labs Threatens HardOCP Again

Posted by timothy on from the crybabies dept.

XBox4Evr writes "In a follow up from two weeks ago, Infinium Labs is again threatening the tech website HardOCP with legal action. This in itself, is no big deal, but to actually read the letter from Infinium Labs lawyers will make you wonder if an educated person actually penned the documents. This seems to another huge blow to IL's credibility in the console market in general, now that ex-Xbox manager Kevin Bachus is on board with Infinium Labs."

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  1. It's Oscar Time !!! by DangerSteel · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    We need to have a poll as to whether Infinium or SCO has hired the legal firm that wins the Oscar for "Most Like the United Nations"...

    I swear, just one more time !!! WE ARE NOT KIDDING THIS TIME ! WE WILL VOTE AGAIN!!!

  2. Re:YANAL, apparently by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    actually the the legal documents ar in the article.

  3. What's the problem? by Andy+Smith · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm new to this story and I read through a lot of the comments in this thread before I went and read the letter from Infinium. Well it's as if some of the people posting in this thread have read a different letter!

    Unless HardOCP can prove that the contentious statements are in fact true, they are guilty of appalling journalism. They have mislead their readers, mainly by omission. Call me old-fashioned but as a reader and an occasional journalist myself, I believe journalism serves one purpose: To report the truth. You are a servant to your reader. Your reader is not someone whose trust you abuse to further your own agenda.

    If I were a HardOCP reader I would ask for point-by-point rebuttals of every complaint made in the letter from Infinium Labs. If it transpired that anything in the original article was either knowingly false or misleading by deliberate omission then I would consider the site a no-go area for trustworthy reporting.

    As it stands, to me as an outsider, Infinium is the victim here.