Seems there’s another company (they breed like cockroaches) with patents on an idea that’s as basic to today’s world as breathing.
PalTalk Holdings (note: holdings…which means, we can’t make money doing anything so we have to buy some patents and sue people) managed to convince Microsoft it wasn’t worth pursuing a $90 million lawsuit. They settled in a way that sounds like Microsoft either agreed to pay a couple million a year in licenses or a nice lump sum of a few million more for a lifetime license (something these trolls love to do).
Now, CocksuckTalk Holdings is pointing its grubby little paws at MMO makers, SOE, Activision Blizzard, NCSoft, and Jagex (the makers of Runescape). With Blizzard pulling in over $1 billion a year with WoW, you can imagine what these cocksuckers are seeing. I’m sure they’re hoping they can get a solid settlement that adds up to tens of millions of dollars a year or a lump sum closer to $100 million so they don’t have to worry about their in ability to produce something worth selling.
This sort of trolling sickness has got to be stopped. It’s 100% counter to the point behind a patent system. I’m telling you right now, the more this sort of bullshit is allowed to continue the less innovation as a method of advancement and commerce will be seen as worthwhile.
If you’re going to patent something, patent it to protect what you’re producing. And, the USPTO needs to learn to stop allowing generic patents through.
And, assuming the patent isn’t that generic (this article hints that it was more specific and thus wasn’t even applicable), Microsoft handed PalTalk what it needed to make life hard for a lot of people. Mind you, most aggressive trolls suffer the consequences of their greed but time will tell if we’ll be able to see PalTalk’s bankruptcy filing in the near future.
Hey, PalTalk, you’re ranking high on the list of those who just can’t suck enough. Go fuck yourselves and find something better to do…
Boy, I hope they piss off someone at Blizzard enough for them to invest a few million in ripping you to shreds. And, as you shiver and moan in the aftermath, all you see is all that money you were hoping to make off this go towards buying back all your credibility you left behind in a pool of your own blood.
) recently and went through that wonderful ritual of trying to figure out what I forgot to back-up/copy before I had to start over (fuck you Microsoft and the registry your OS rode in on).