Archive for August, 2007

Star Jones Discusses Gaming Law

Monday, August 27th, 2007 Posted in Television, Video | 1 Comment »

Star Jones discussed gaming law on her Court TV show last week with Craig Scott, a Columbine survivor, Sen. Leland Yee, architect of California's unconstitutional video game law, and Katherine Fallow an attorney who has defended the video game industry ...

CAGcase Update

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 Posted in Cheap Ass Gamer, Subpoena | No Comments »

CheapyD of Cheap Ass Gamer has recently posted all of the court documents related to the Circuit City subpoena on the CAG main page. The documents include the original 22-page complaint filed by Circuit City and CAG's Objection and ...

Cheap Ass Subpoena

Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Cheap Ass Gamer, New Complaint, Subpoena | No Comments »

Cheap Ass Gamer ("CAG") has reported via its latest "CAGcast" and on their site that Circuit City has issued a subpoena for any information regarding forum member "speedy1961." In an interview, CAG CEO David Abrams told Laws of Play that ...

Epic countersues Silicon Knights, SK fears “Cole Train” involvement

Thursday, August 9th, 2007 Posted in Epic Games, Intellectual Property, Silicon Knights | 2 Comments »

We previously reported Silicon Knight's lawsuit against Epic which basically alleged that Epic was committing industry sabotage. Well, Epic recently responded to Silicon Knight's complaint with a big, fat motion to dismiss and a bigger, fatter countersuit alleging ...

O.J. Simpson must pay

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 Posted in Class action, Settlement | 2 Comments »

Finally, finally, finally the original law evading celebrity ("LEC"), O.J. Simpson, is back in the news and, refreshingly, this time it's not in his favor. Reuters is reporting that the ex-football star will have to turn over any money he ...

Microsoft settles Xbox “Fall Update” case

Monday, August 6th, 2007 Posted in Class action, Microsoft, Settlement | No Comments »

According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Microsoft has recently settled the dispute of Kevin Ray v. Microsoft Corp. The case, originally filed as a proposed class action, was settled as an individual action. In the case, Ray alleged that the ...

Court tells ex-Take Two boss to take five years of probation

Saturday, August 4th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Take Two? Take a couple million; it's all the same to Ryan Brant. Brant, the former CEO of Take Two Interactive Software, Inc., avoided prison time after he cooperated with prosecutors to investigate stock-option backdating. Brant, one of ...

It’s official! Post goes ‘postal’ on Boll

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 Posted in Intellectual Property, New Complaint, Uwe Boll | No Comments »

We previously reported that the New York Post threatened Uwe Boll with legal action if he did not remove his "New York Postal" website. While Boll did not comply with the Post's requests, his hosting provider was more than ...