Fortunately, justice was served in that case. The cigar manufacturer charged the cigar smoker with a case of arson for each of the cigars, and won far more in damages than the cigar smoker had gotten, plus, he was arrested and, obviously, found guilty. The problems with our court system are, in my opinion, that people will sue for just about anything, lawyers who should know better will take on these people as clients, and they win. If the judges would throw out these ridiculous law suits and charge the people who tie up the courts with them for all court costs plus damages, and charge the lawyers who are so money hungry for bringing the suits to court double what the clients are charged, and if word that this is happening gets out to the public as a message not to continue this practice, our court system could get on with what it is there for. Seeing that justice is served in legitimate cases.
--- If you don't stand behind our troops, please, feel free ... to stand in front of them! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Montezuma's Return announcement > Hi Ari, > For the record the person I was emailing today didn't say anything about > suing me. At this point all he has done is ask me a lot of questions > about conflicts of interests, how I obtained the copyrights to > Montezuma's Return, how similar my game is to the Utopia title, etc. I > am hoping this is just some confusion on his part. > I did explain that my game is an accessible game, made for blind and low > vision users, and while it is similar to Montezuma's Revenge it is also > different. I am hoping those diferences and the fact it is not a video > game, per say, they will just leave me alone. > Though, after this little run in I am strongly thinking about changing > the name of the game again. While I like the name I have for the game I > would rather it not come up in search engines under Montezuma's Return > which is a trade mark of another company. > As for suing it is a sad fact people are sue happy over here in the USA. > When a woman can order hot coffee, spill it on herself, and then sue > McDonald's for selling her hot coffee and win you know something is > wrong with the legal system. I heard of a case involving a lawyer who > payed for a pack of cigars, insured them for fire damage, smoked them, > and then sued the insurance company for not paying him after his cigars > were smoked and won. My point is that suing over here is often > rediculous, but is a part of life. > > ari wrote: >> really Thomas, feel very sorry for you about this, can't stand bloody >> evil >> people like that, these big bullying corporate-types who try and find >> anything to sue over to just make money, that's the one thing I find not >> great about America, the culture over there of people just wanting to >> find >> problems and suing all the time. It's absolutely disgusting, I mean, how >> could anyone even confuse them with you, you are making a game for blind >> people, they're not even bothering to do that anyway. >> Ari >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
