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HardOCP Sues Infinium Over Legal Threats

Posted by simoniker on from the fun-fun-fun dept.

Cebu writes "According to GameSpot, in a less than surprising move, Kyle Bennett of tech website HardOCP has decided to file a lawsuit against Infinium Labs, makers of the forthcoming Phantom PC-based 'console'. On February 27, a lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division under the Declaratory Judgment Act to force the issue of Infinium Labs' repeated legal threats against HardOCP for an allegedly defamatory article written last year."

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  1. Re:Lawyer Central? by Night+Goat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, no kidding. I think I'm going to go and change my preferences so they don't show all this law stuff. A bit is interesting, but when you have simoniker posting three law articles in a row, fuck it, I don't need that. If I cared that much about law, I'd be a lawyer.

  2. It's all about credibility. by Performer+Guy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The whole problem with this scenario is it's all about credibility. In order for Infinium to succeed they need to create a perception that they have momentum to get funding, developer support and console sales. Hard OCP attacking them on every piece of FUD they could come up with damaged their company. No it wasn't necessarily false but there was a lot of conjecture and innuendo. If you undermine the perception that Infinium is a credible business then you undermine their ability to do business. There's no denying that HardOCP has a burr up their ass on this one for no apparent reason other than the unbridled ego of Kyle.

    Everyone knows that this system as proposed isn't technically difficult, the only issue is momentum to get critical mass and funding until they reached profitability. It'll be much less likely to happen thanks to HardOCP's article.

    Rather than doing anyone a favour they've actually guaranteed that this will probably never happen and injured the current investors as they masquerade as helping them.

    There's a lot of excessive intimidation of web publishers, but this particular case doesn't exactly make me sympathetic towards HardOCP. Kyle Bennett setting out to do a mean spirited hatchet job on a startup company trying to pull off a hail mary play in the console market .... frankly I don't care about this one, let them stew.