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HardOCP Declares Win vs. Infinium Labs

Posted by Zonk on from the power-to-the-people! dept.

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.

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  1. Judge's signature by mr.henry · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

    1. Re:Judge's signature by GoofyBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe he just wanted to see if anyone would notice.

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

      --
      The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
  2. What does this say about... by samdu · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...the pockets of Infinium? Surely a "company" that's preparing to "release" a new "game system" should have enough "money" in the bank to fight a legal battle like this.

  3. There was no amendment by phr2 · · Score: 5, Informative
    and no act of Congress turning corporations into persons. There was not even a supreme court decision.

    Rather, the notion of corporate personhood got written into some other supreme court decision in the 1870's, by a former railroad executive who was working as a clerk at the Supreme Court. It wasn't part of the actual Court opinion but rather was part of the introduction or something like that, but regardless, later court decisions quoted it and it became binding law.

    The Supreme Court in that era was very corrupt, even worse than now. The 14th amendment (resulting from the Civil War) spelled out a bunch of rights guaranteed to all "persons", i.e. all people (previously, only white people had rights). Corporations realized that they wanted to get in on the action and have those rights themselves, so after sufficient palm greasing, the decisions came down.

    For more info, see the movie "The Corporation", which is really excellent.

    See also: wikipedia on corporate personhood.