HardOCP Declares Win vs. Infinium Labs

Bill Bagel writes "Many of us have watched Infinium Labs' attempt to quash HardOCP's First Amendment right for the last year. HardOCP wrote this story on the Infinium Labs CEO, Tim Roberts, that was based on his own resume and some Google research. IL sued HardOCP, a home-based webpage business for $20M in Florida, and HardOCP fought back in a Federal Court in Texas for a declaratory judgment. HardOCP basically won when Infinium Labs finally gave up the fight citing great expenses involved in fighting the declaratory suit. The judge's order can be found here." The Cliff's Notes version can be found on WhereisPhantom.com.

Comments

Judge's signature

[mr.henry]

It's worth RTFA just to see the judge's funky signature. I guess I can make out the first name, but I don't see how you can get "KAPLAN" from a lowercase "a" followed by 13 "u"s.

Anyhow, congrats to Kyle & HardOCP.

Re:Judge's signature

[brilinux]

Perhaps he was dictating!

Re:Judge's signature

[GoofyBoy]

Maybe he just wanted to see if anyone would notice.

http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/

Re:Judge's signature

[raeler]

It's a play on Gooooooooooooogle, he just forgot to add PWND at the end of his sig.

Re:Judge's signature

[Anonymous Coward]

I figure he just started to have a seizure.

Re:Judge's signature

[Rethcir]

Dating yourself? Well at least you'll always know when your date will put out. (OT thread, but fun)

This is exactly what I was going to say

[umrgregg]

Who signed that order? I could have been anyone: Jesus The Christuuuuuuuu, Jed Clampetuuuuuuuu, Justin Timberlakeuuuuuuu? Who knows...?

Good! Now if only...

[Chordonblue]

...we can get a similar judgement with SCO.

Yes sir... 2005 is shaping up to be a GREAT year!

Re:OCP

[ackthpt]

It's only a matter of time before OCP takes over and starts running our cities like a corporation! Next they'll experiment with convicts in order to build cyborgs. We must stop them now before all our rights belong to them!

I for one, welcome our new OCP overlords.

Re: infinite loop

[Anonymous Coward]

If HardOCP countersues to recoup legal fees it will result in an infinite loop, since the countersuit itself will result in more legal fees that will need to be recouped with a countersuit.

fhtang!

[Scrameustache]

Who signed that order? I could have been anyone: Jesus The Christuuuuuuuu, Jed Clampetuuuuuuuu, Justin Timberlakeuuuuuuu? Who knows...?

The Great Chtulhuuuuuuuuu knows...

Re: infinite loop

[Speare]

If HardOCP countersues to recoup legal fees it will result in an infinite loop...

Don't you mean an Infinium Loop?

To my homey J Kaplannnnn

[Lazarus_Bitmap]

Wazzzzaaaaaaaap!!!

Dude, they were suing people

[Chris Burke]

for putting publicly available but apparently embarassing information in a highly visible place.

Are they as irrelevent now as SCO will be after they lose their case? Yes. Do I still want to hear about it when it happens so I can laugh at them? Yes. Yes I do.

To Infinium Labs: Ha ha!

Re:Rights?

[flosofl]

Well, yes I can, because that's covered separately under the "freedom of the press" provision...right?

Hate to burst your bubble, Matlock, but it's all the same "provision". It's called the 1st Amendment.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."