Comments on: Patent Troll Stalks Social Gaming Industry Over Virtual Payments

By: James Boyajian

James Boyajian — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:43:38 +0000

Trolls? Parasites is a more appropriate depiction. So much for the progress of Arts and Sciences if these leeches sit on the patents and use it for nothing but litigation. The fact that our laws still allow for such litigation-focused enterprises to prosper is just sad.

By: Me

Me — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:22:05 +0000

Calling people trolls is idiotic.

By: Greg Golebiewski

Greg Golebiewski — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:27:18 +0000

The question is how come that such patent was ever issued. Who examines such claim? They are abstract enough to be rejected by the USPO.

By: Evsdropping

Evsdropping — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:50:24 +0000

Wow, hope these cases get thrown out. The lagging copyright reform and redefinition brings out the real crud in our society. What a waste of time, resources, brain power – all to score a quick buck on someone else’s work… then again I suppose we could argue the same thing for the derivatives market…

By: FrozenFabulist

FrozenFabulist — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:20:06 +0000

Here is a link to the various virtual items you could purchase at Boltac’s trading post in the 1981 computer game Wizardry… Which rocked, by the way…

http://www.tk421.net/wizardry/wiz1items.shtml

By: Walt French

Walt French — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:38:32 +0000

WTF? Nobody had a system for virtual purchases in games before 2000 that were contingent on checking a player’s coins and situation?

Betcha these suckers disappear even faster than the cockroaches who claimed they invented the internet.