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Angered Game Developer Sues Critic Jim Sterling For US$10 Million

 

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/03/angered-game-developer-sues-critic-jim-sterling-for-us10-million/

 

who didn't see this coming?? 

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This really doesn't mean a whole lot. They can sue for whatever amount they want; whether the jury awards it them or not is another question.

 

EDIT: From the Kotaku article:

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Digital Homicide is representing themselves in the lawsuit, and do not have an attorney. They attempted to crowdfund support for additional help, saying all donations would be kept anonymous. However, Digital Homicide has since taken down its crowdfunding request “due to harassers donating amounts specifically to cause charges rather than donations and charge backs to cause financial fees…[W]e will be seeking another avenue for donations”.

 

I literally laughed out loud at this.

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Kind of funny especially the 4.3 million for emotional distress... made my night lol.

 

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This might not even make it to court. It's going to require a judge to take the case and the morons don't even have a lawyer yet. They were trying to get donations for their legal fund.

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Lol, just saw this mentioned in the YouTube comments section (and no my mind hasn't been destroyed by the comments section).

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BTW, Digital Homicide could get into trouble themselves for the false DMCA take downs.

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We do not sell cosmetics. We just blind animals."

 

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I read this earlier, I about spit my drink at the part where they tried to crowdfund the lawsuit 

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To be honest, I never bothered reading the article when I saw Kotaku Austraila load (unfortunately I didn't see the .com.au to avoid clicking). All I can hope for is that no sefl-respecting judge would bother wasting time on the lawsuit.

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All Jim's defense lawyer has to point out is to take a look at DigitalHomicide's false DMCA claims and reselling pre-made "game templates" from the Unity asset store as their own game and ripping copyright textures from Google Images for their models (you can find the textures in the first search page LOL). Jim is simply pointing them out in his videos.

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Digital Homicide never learns....

 

Also please include more information in your post if possible. 

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Libel is a lot harder to prove in the US but if Digital Homicide had a decent lawyer I think they just might have a (small) chance.

He has made a lot of videos, tweets, blog posts and such railing on Digital Homicide and a competent lawyer may be able to point to the large amount of attention Jim has given Digital Homicide as something that had evolved into a malicious vendetta and I'm sure there are no end of reviews and posts by users on Steam referencing Jim's videos and tweets, arguably directly linking his statements to an overall negative view of the company and or its products.

 

I doubt even then that Digital Homicide would actually win anything but it may be able to tie the case up in the courts long enough to put a large financial strain on Jim or any company that may support him.

*edit* Though I imagine the financial strain would be as bad or greater on Digital Homicide, likely completely bankrupting them.

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2 hours ago, Jack_of_all_Trades said:

Well time to prepare popcorn for mondays jimquisition. This should be entertaining. (if there isn't one sooner)

There will probably be a sly reference to the case, but his lawyer will probably advise him to not talk much about it now that it's an official legal matter.

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You should change the topic title to

 

"tries to sue"

 

because the way you have it now makes it sound like he has sued and has won, which is never ever ever going to happen. This won't even make it to court.

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Oh shit, Digital Homicide, my favourite :3

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HA , Good luck suing Jim sterling , He has Youtube on his side , wich means he has google on his side. So sue jim , You sue Youtube , You sue YouTube , You sue Google , You sue Google , You sue The Alphabet. Jim runs deep son !

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Just now, Ridska said:

HA , Good luck suing Jim sterling , He has Youtube on his side , wich means he has google on his side. So sue jim , You sue Youtube , You sue YouTube , You sue Google , You sue Google , You sue The Alphabet. Jim runs deep son !

Nope, Jim Sterling was a member of the Escapist network however he left there a few years ago and went independent. Youtube/Google/Alphabet have nothing to do with him or his videos and neither would they get involved in this.

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1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Nope, Jim Sterling was a member of the Escapist network however he left there a few years ago and went independent. Youtube/Google/Alphabet have nothing to do with him or his videos and neither would they get involved in this.

I know that. I was just lolligaaging around. But that being said, He is in the YouTube fair use protection program, Which means YouTube will represent jim on behalf of him.

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I think that some of this was done in mind for the media coverage...

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10 minutes ago, Ridska said:

I know that. I was just lolligaaging around. But that being said, He is in the YouTube fair use protection program, Which means YouTube will represent jim on behalf of him.

 

Fair use and libel are completely different things.

Fair use is is about how you are and are not able to use copyrighted material.

Libel is about slandering and/or knowingly reporting false information to damage a person or company.

I doubt Youtube or Google will do anything about this.

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truth is an absolute defence and lets face,   he is right, i mean he is jim fucking sterling son!

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I've never heard of either party but it's obvious whatever is going on between them has gotten out of hand.

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If the lawsuit does go forward, I sure hope the court slap those morons across the face with a big  "you're idiots" statement. Everything Jim has shown of their terrible games is Fair Use in the context it was used and quite frankly Digital Homicide should be found guilty for the fake DMCA claims they've tried to do in order to muffle legitimate criticism, not to mention their extremely "childish" respond video they've made, surely that's got to count for something right?

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