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i call shennanigans

I think worlds is a huge load of bs and just want to make a couple extra bucks. because if they felt that strongly abouy it why didnt they bring it up as soon as mmogs started out?

Everybody together now.... ****EYEROLL****

Stoo-pid.

I think that it won't go well for Worlds.com because (at least imo) they couldn't have a patent for all virtual 3D spaces. It's like General Motors sueing any other car company that has put out a muscle car saying that they have the patent to any two-door V8 with rear wheel drive.

lmao @ "i call shennanigans" converabull XD
and i agree with fladon it is a hug load of bs!

I personally don't see where they have a leg to stand on. Yes they may hav the patent on the concept but it doesn't mean that everyone that uses a simular type of concept is violating the patent rights. Then you get into the question do they have the legal right to say they own the concept of using the internet as a way to connect millions of people together a violation of this patent issue. There are tons of software out there that use 2D and 3D concepts to mak interaction between human people though the use of the public domain of the internet to do whatever they want. It would be like instead of paying taxes on the money your employers pay you then turning around and having a country outside of the US say well since you use our equiptment to do your job we are going to tax your wages too, It's wrong in many ways. And if the courts don't see t that way then god help us all. our 150 bucks a year to access the game WoW as an example will goto probably 150 a month.

Gees, sounds like sour grapes or what? If this stands up in court I will eat my own face.

So according to this article(http://tinyurl.com/8t3d3o):
"Worlds.com owns U.S. Patent Nos. 6,219,045 titled “Scalable Virtual World Chat Client-Server System” and 7,181,690 titled “System and Method for Enabling Users to Interact in a Virtual Space”. The Patents relate to computer architecture for a three-dimensional graphical multi-user interactive virtual world system. Such systems are utilized in Massive Multi-Player Online Games (MMORPG) of the type known as Graphical Multi-Dimension (GMUD) games, which provide a graphical representation of the player’s character (avatar) wherein movement of the character in virtual space alters what the character views."

To me that sounds rather vague. By this statement, they're assuming that all other systems are based solely on theirs and do not contain their own unique intellectual property, which would (in my eyes) annul any claim Worlds.com have on requiring other companies to purchase a license from them. They're acting like they invented the idea of a third dimension o_O. To paraphrase Garv, it would be like Apple and Microsoft suing each-other for use of a touch based GUI. Its a ridiculous chicken vs egg argument which will see Worlds.com buried under litigation fees, and amen to that.

This is...stupid. Even if the concept was theirs, it doesn't mean they have any right to sue everybody using it. If everybody worked like that, Ford would sue every other car company because they used an engine...

But, knowing the legal system's ignorance to gaming, it'll probably hold up...(although I'm hoping it doesn't).

OMFG LOL

this never gets old...."lets wait till something gets insanely popular and well know then try and sue them because we had a 'similar' idea"

LOL some guys tried to do it with God of War...some company tried to say they invented a type of blu-ray in the 90s....imo all total bull...but what would america be without trying to always sue someone....

It's obvious they're doing it for the money, not to protect their idea. Otherwise they would have sued a long time ago >.> Besides, they could be sued for using the term virtual world too then, if we really want this to be a pointing system :P

I can't wait to follow this lawsuit. I think it'l go down in flames.

They have no case period end of point you cannot patent that sort of tech.

I facepalm'd so hard I'll prolly have a mark in my face for the rest of the day.

This is Retarded....how can they just sue for no real reason.

i call shenanigans also

I dont think this lawsuit will work too well. Wont this make it a monoploy then? Which as i recall, are illegal

I know for a fact the WoW has been online now for more than 4 years. I, also being no lawyer, think that this must be out of there statute of limitations, and if i am correct then even if they are at legal, right they waited to long to try to prosecute.

They are full of BS. If they not only win thier case against the NCSoft they can then sue any company that had made an RPG that has acess to the internet which includes gaming consoles/systems ( Xbox, PS2, 360, and so forth)... Its really retarded imho

/facepalm... why would they bring this up now? Blizzard isnt the first or the last.

If this is the case, surely whoever owns the original rights to "VR" can sue Worlds and anyone with any idea of an alternate reality? >_>

Stuff like this annoys me.

Damn... this sucking f*cks and f*cking sucks... how much more BS this could be o.O Bastards need money and they're taking up on games now.....

IMO i think that if this goes through, everyone who plays these games should sue worlds for emotional and mental damage, and all the nonsense people sue others for now days. Kind of show them, that when you mess with something popular (especially us mmo fools) you get F***ed.

if they end up winning and the companies refuse to use their liscences and shut down all the sick kiddies they try to help will keel over.

srsly... can someone lend me a plane and a huge bomb?

I can't wait for hackers to get up in arms and crash the world for a month. Teach them that they are not just fucking with companies but with people play these games too.

HACKERS UNITE BURN THE WORLD!