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HardOCP Sues Infinium Over Legal Threats
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."
New section for this website: lawsuits
HardOCP posted an article that was quite misleading. I don't think they they maliciously *lied*, but definitely misled it's readers.
On what points exactly do you feel that HardOCP misled their readers?
Infinium sent the letter saying that it didn't like the article and was going to sue, and then HardOCp decided to escalate by countersueing.
They didn't escalate, they just called Infinium's bluff. If I'm reading the news right, the legal action here concerns solely the matters that Infinium's original threats of legal action were based on. There is no escalation here at all, they've just moved the venue of discussion.
It's standard PC hardware, with a few custom add-ons to integrate the hardware&softwaresides of the DRM scheme.
I believe when people say the infinium doesn't exist they mean that the custom add-ons don't exist or do not have substance. I don't think anyone believes that Infinium doesn't have PC hardware.
However I also think most people who've looked closely at what Infinium is saying believe that in the screenshot Infinium distributed where there's the kid playing Quake 3 on a TV with a phantom sitting in front of it, that you're looking at any sort of actual product Infinium has or will have.
This isn't about law, it's about RIGHTS. I think most of us don't care (too much) about the particulars of the lawsuit but DO care that Infinium Labs is trying to silence HardOCP.com for posting a well-researched article that happens to go against what Infinium wants people to think about them.
I think the point is that the truth is more important than an company's PR issues.
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
I propose a reason for the decline of relevance of US: the amount of money used going for lawsuits (defending against bad claims and making those bad claims) vs. the amount of money that goes to new developing new ideas. so... basically, it's asshole businessmen and CEOs that see a better living from the civil law system than actually thinking themselves. Maybe if all this effort was refocused all these WELL TRAINED tech people would actually have a job. Time to expire ALL of tort law and begin again...
Why don't you embrace your slashbotness instead of living in a dreamworld?