The Digital
Homicide: How Not to Sue
This whole Jim
Sterling/Digital Homicide/Posters things had me glued to the seat to
see what was going to happen next. And,you thought the Gawker
downfall was amazing to watch.
From
Techraptor ((Romine, who
filed the lengthy subpoena on September 12th, showed
evidence that 100 different users on Steam who have made
statements about the indie developer in the past. Romine, who
collected numerous photographs of several Steam users speaking
negatively about their products, is demanding $18,000,000 by these
100 Steam users in damages for “personal injury.” Judge Eileen
Willett sided with Romine, granting
him a subpoena for “early discovery” to uncover the Steam
user’s identities. ))
That's right
they
actually threaten to sue people who had
bought their games and hated those games. Have you ever heard of
such a thing?
Basically, DH
makes (I use that work loosely) really bad videogames. And, people
on Steam know it. So, to shut them up they went after their own
customers and a VG critic. Then, Valve (Steam) removed all DH's
games from their site. Valve didn't want a company that treated
their users in such a hostile manner, so DH got the boot. Wouldn't
you do the same?
In return, DH
sued Valve too.
Here's the best
part. DH are the ones that dismissed the lawsuit cases! And, yes,
they're trying to dismiss the Jim Sterling case as well. They
couldn't afford to sue all these people.
So, what has
happened to Digital Homicide?
From
techraptor.net, ((As far as digital homicide? It’s
destroyed. It’s been stomped into the ground from a thousand
directions and use is discontinued. I’m going back into the work
force and watching what’s really going on. Not gaming media gossip
– the real stories are in the legal documents. Not talking about
mine. ))
Now, check out the video below that goes into detail why DH is hated
so much and how they got into this current situation.
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