Yes, the infamous “Banhammer”.Creative Commons attribution license, Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/powi/519822065/ The standards for banning gamers differ from community to community. But with a recent growing trend of acquisitions, is the standard changing via the takeover company? Should it? Does community standard even have a meaning anymore with worldwide gaming so predominant that you may not even have [...]
From the Movie ”Death Becomes Her”, “Now, a warning“, link to trailer. Well, they couldn’t say Blizzard didn’t warn them. More after the jump Photo by Megaman, http://www.flickr.com/photos/meta-man/4198170449/ Used via Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Just a gentle reminder; I was a gamer a long time before I was a lawyer. Every day I (like many of you) read a lawsuit notice that seems so patently absurd that as a fellow lawyer I wince. Lawsuits that I’m sure 10 lawyers may have turned down before 1 took it. Non-lawyers need [...]
Legal activitiy AtoZ in last several months (by its nature selective) A-Avatar (lawsuits in Madden, Guitar Hero, and Second Life for actions of avatars) B – Banned in Games (lawsuits by Estavillo vs Sony, SD Cal Estavillo v. Sony Computer Entm’t Am. Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 86821; along with others) C-China – China shuts [...]
Today’s article is MAINLY about lifetime, universal, or at last long-term banning. Let’s break down the component parts first of all. No discussion of legal terms is complete without a glossary, so I’m going to give you the abridged version. There will also be a referral for outside reading to understand the history of community [...]
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