i hope they are all bankrupt from the curt costs now... in company and in privat...
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Normally I skip youtube links but that one was worth it, +1
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hope they drop it and make more games under another name so i can idle again. 💜
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They may be dead on Steam but there are others who follow their footsteps and eventually fall into the chasm after them
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hope they learn how to properly make trash games to farm card profits from gamers idlers. ❤️
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It took them an awful lot of time to realize this simple thing there in the court. Well, better late than even later.
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when someone is representing themselves, courts will go out of their way to help them, which includes giving lots of chances to re-file and amend. plus courts move slow on low priority bullshit
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Because internet where you can make idle threats and immature comments without repercussions and fully knowing it doesn't amount to anything.
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Probably just because he's scum, but there's too much scum in the world to hate them all, so there's no real point.
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The only thing Jim has been suffering from, is holding back the tears of laughter.
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If the case gets dismissed this way, who will pay the court costs?
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That makes sense.
It won't establish a legal precedent, but at least it will show that filing suits for petty reasons can be costly.
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it's irrelevant whether it's permitted or not, because he'd have to collect from digital homicide, which won't have the resources to pay for it.
Maybe he could take over their IP instead? that actually would be hilarious
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They don't necessarily need to have the money to hire a lawyer. A lawyer could take the case for a percentage of the winnings.
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yes, but, consider the chance of winning is practically zero, and the amount that could be recovered in the slim chance they win is also not much more than zero, the lawyer would effectively be working for nothing
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I had a read of a few of the linked sites and I still don't understand what this is about. You explained the current situation well, but what was the suit about - some blogger talking trash about their games?
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Okay, thanks.
I can understand businesses being concerned about the massive potential impact of a handful of motivated people on social media when I see the success of misinformed loudmouths such as anti-vaccination campaigners. If someone is just providing an opinion and not making objectively false claims, you really just have to live with that, but I think the DMCA claim is not as cut and dried as it might seem at first blush. The original artist owns the rights to all derivative works, so the software house owns the rights to any footage captured from their game (https://www.redbubble.com/people/byron/journal/8728965-the-beginners-guide-to-copyright-and-dmca-part-1). There are exemptions for commentary and criticism, which is what the blogger would argue, but the software house could argue that it is not a legitimate critique (claiming a personal vendetta and citing their history), and if the guy is making money from his blog (e.g. via advertising), that would further muddy the water. Zuffa is an example of an organisation that tolerates very little third party use of their material (UFC). These laws rarely get tested because anyone that can afford the massive legal fees for such a protracted case is big enough to scare people into submission or pay for the problem to go away before it gets to court.
Anyway, it sounds like it was a good lesson to act within your area of competence and a reminder that it's easier to get to sleep at night if you behave cordially and responsibly.
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Basically, DH didn't like people reporting about their games and saying they were crap. They even made a vid calling Jim Sterling all kinds of names.
Eventually Steam banned them because they also wanted Steam to hand over customer information so they could sue the customers for saying the games are crap too.
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Thanks. Sounds like they had a bash at sorting things out their own way and figured out a bit too late that learning the rules should be the first part of any game.
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If they won, they could get enough money to pay for a lawyer and charges and rest of their life.
But it won't happen.
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About time this case got thrown out. The evidence provided by James Romine was more than enough to prove it was a frivolous lawsuit with no solid reasoning behind it.
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I find it baffling how it has never occured to DigiHom that maybe, just maaybeee, they have only themselves to blame O.o
They wouldn't have ended up in this mess, wouldn't have had their games removed from Steam, wouldn't have destroyed their own business, wouldn't have become a target of wide-spread "defamation", if they'd just settled for some angry internet comments instead of bringing on their little ridiculous lawsuits.
I'm going to miss them though, they became a great laughing stock :D
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Wow.....
Truly shocking.
Two brothers who couldn't make a game in unity without having a mental breakdown every time someone pointed out it was shit, also failed epically with their Baldrick-esque cunning plan to turn their shitty game dev business into a get rich quick scheme via the courts.
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If they only kept their mouths shut, they could still be raking in that sweet steam trading cards money /shrug. Instead we got the largest single purge from the steam store in it's short history (21). I played two of those (Slaughtering Grounds and Temper Tantrum) and I cannot comprehend how anyone could take pride with those two pieces of shit. You would have to be delusional to believe that those are even average, let alone good, quality games.
Glad to see this finally being wrapped up and can't wait to hear Jim's side of it all.
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But they have put all their love and soul in them... :P
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I would hope this episode would teach James Romine a lesson, but based on the sum of his actions up to this point and what he has demonstrated of his character and judgement, I sadly doubt it will.
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Too bad it sounds like it will be on a technicality and not on the merits (or lack thereof) of the case
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And a few weeks later, we get proof that this thread has an overly-optimistic title
Time to get more popcorn, this insanity is not quite over yet
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This is the dude that sued another dude for making gameplay video of a shitty game and telling people that the game was shitty? 😂
Hilarious case I must say, but I thought the Homicide dude would never continue with his imaginary threat. I hope he loses a lot of money and starts working at a factory to support his family instead of just trying to win in a court for "justice".
I'm happy Steam did delete all their games. Suing users for publishing negative reviews is hilarious.
At first I thought we were talking about Sterling the legend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F9jXYOH2c0
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