HardOCP Wins Against Infinium Labs

An anonymous reader writes "HardOCP has won a huge legal round against Infinium Labs. The WhereIsPhantom website has all the details, straight from the court dockets. There is a list of orders a mile long for Infinium Labs and owner Tim Roberts to comply with by Sept. 30th."

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I like [H]ard OCP

[category_five]

I like [H]ard OCP because they stay true to their roots and post mostly about motherboards and stories interesting to the [H]ardware community while other hardware sites are now posting useless reviews of webcams, PDA's and wireless routers which have little to do with making your game machine be all it can be.(anandtech and tomshardwareguide).

Re:what this is all about. (informative)

[mabhatter654]

Kyle called "bullshit" back in september of last year. Don't know why, but Kyle wrote a ripping piece on them from out of nowhere...maybe they had some of his money!! [haha] but for some reason they pulled his chain and he went digging...and found free and clear public knowlage that they weren't what they said they were...hell their stated office address at the time was a vacant rundown store!

For some reason they tried to sue HIM to take the article down like 4 months later!!! He corrected matters of fact...silly stuff that didn't change any of the article's real information. They tried to drag him to court in Florida...so he "counter" sued in Texas court [where Kyle lives and supposedly they had an office also!] to have a case dismissed... they then preceded to sue him again.

I can't say why this is such a big deal. The only thing I can see is that Roberts appears to be a serial "scammer" [but then 50% of VC seekers are anyway] and it was just too easy a target for Kyle to pass up...and if you read the forums or letters replys, Kyle LOVES a good Flame war! can you say recipe for trouble!!!

Re:Can we just ignore infinium

[sahrss]

"Infinium are trying to pull off something very difficult from a business perspective and Hard[OCP] stuck the boot in..."

What the hell? Where did you come from? Nice misinformation. Go read some of the evidence in these threads:

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/27/ 1430211&tid=123&tid=127&tid=10
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/04/ 0017209&tid=123&tid=127&tid=10

-1 Troll. Mods, this guy made another comment here: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=122123&c id=10273433

Infinium wants to be on the ASE...

[Artifex]

I wonder how these lawsuits are going to look in their planned filing with the American Stock Exchange?

The ultimate evil plan against the Phantom

[British]

Here's a fun idea.

1. get a linux system together with some good hardware. Make it mini-itx
2. Take out all non-game-console-specific stuff out. Make it a small distro
3. Buy a game controller from the store, get drivers working for it
4. Setup some crude kiosk frontend that might be what the Phantom would have
5. Install MAME on it or something and pretend the arcade ROMs ae the games Phantom would be selling(this is just an example)
6. Put a fancy plastic case around it.

Then realize you have some crude implmentation of what might have been a Phantom console, only for the cost of hardware, and people's free time to slap together a fancy front end with a Linux engine(not unlike TiVo)

7. wait for lawsuits from Infinium labs to roll in saying you copied their idea

8. brag about it on here and HardOCP. They have a plastic box and hype, you have a somewhat crude , working implementation of what they have promised, but never delivered.

Whee

Re:Can we just ignore infinium

[nursedave]

First, I am not pro-hardOCP. I am just anti-stupid.

Second, I am not pretending it was factual; it was factual. I did read the article, and I presume you have, too. Does it not bother you that the "company" received mail at a Mailboxes, ETC. type place for 8 months, after securing some $25 million in funding? That when they did claim to get an office, someone checked and it was vacant? Dude, all these things SCREAM scam; factor in the fact that the CEO has a history of such shadiness, and it was a vital piece serving the public interest, not a hatchet piece. I'd hope such activities would always be brought to the attention of people who might think of investing or purchasing something like this.

Third, your remark on suing in Texas was hardly a neutral observation, you made your own assumptions, which you have the right to do, but please, don't call it neutral and insult our intelligence. And that remark didn't make sense anyway - Kyle lives in Texas, Infinium had a business presence in Texas - where the hell should Kyle have files suit? Alabama? I'm in Texas, and if I want to sue Cocacola, I'm doing it right here.

I applied for a job with them

[TiggertheMad]

..right when this whole feud started. They seemed like nice enough people. The were set up in temp offices in Seattle's bank of America building. Most of the PMs are ex-Microsoft (No MS jokes please, we are torching IL right now...) and at the time they were looking to hire a ton of people. They had the hardware done (Although I never saw it, being a first interiew), and were looking at the software delivery system. The ranking manager came off as a bit odd, but I didn't get and sense of shysters trying to pull a fast one or clueless idiots who couldn't pull it off. If all the negative press about the president being totally evil/inept isn't true, I'd give the console a fifty percent chance of seeing the light of day.

The guys I talked to even thought that PA's shot at them was funny, so they have a sense of humor about all the press. I'm sort of glad I wasn't offered a job, though. Too much wierd stuff was happening.