WoW accused of turning man's mind into 'living video game' World of Warcraft creator Blizzard Entertainment's lawsuit against MDY Industries is getting a little dose of bat-shit insane before the case rolls to trial. The legal sideshow comes courtesy of the famously litigious inmate Jonathan Lee Riches, who accuses Blizzard's popular online game - in a hand-written legal filing (PDF …
I'm too addicted to WoW, it's hurrendous.
But if I can go commit a crime and then sue Blizzard for it, WoW! (no pun intended... ok maybe a little)
The guy is crazy obviously, seeing as he's filing the lawsuit. If he was going to lose touch with reality it would happen, whether it be due to a game, movie, song, picture, porn mag, who cares.
Point is this is crazy, and I hope it doesn't hurt Blizzard!
OMG Blizzard turned me into a zombie, call in the lawyers! Ahh wait that event was cancelled days ago. (where was the coverage there El Reg? I would have loved to see a big fat article with added ....braaaaiiinsss...)
Paris because well she has more brains than the man in the lawsuit and the lawyers backing him.
Anybody got a link to his actual sentencing date, because he may have been in prison prior to the game's release date. He's in on a 10 year sentence, and scheduled for release in 2012, WoW was released in late '04. If anything could make this story better, that would be IT!
"Riches - who is in a South Carolina prison until 2012 for wire fraud"
though a bit surprized, I think it's awefully nice for the penal system there to allow this mentally unbalanced man to play WoW rather than do his full time job (?!)
however, shouldn't the dept. of corrections be named in the lawsuit for allowing him the access ?
That he CHOSE to play WOW instead of working his job? So this weak-minded fool can't distinguish good from bad or fantasy from reality. Release him from prison but commit him full-time to a locked-down mental institution. He's admitted his guilt and proven his mental illness. Keep him institutionalized for his own good.
Unfortunately, if the american courts were to take a stand against inane, surreal or riduculus lawsuits, it could cause another major finacial collapse as 90% of the American legal industry were made redundant.
As entertaining as this particular story is, the topic has become distinctly passé, thanks to fat kids who don't know when to stop eating and people who are clearly new to the concept of opposable thumbs pouring hot coffee over themselves then suing various fast food chains.
If the courts were to throw out every application that was deliberately misleading or had no clear grounds in reality, then we wouldn't be able to walk the streets for fear of Intellectual Property lawyers begging for change or mollesting our windscreens with muddy spunges.
And let's face it. Who on earth would want to get that close to an IP lawyer without some form of heavy blunt instrument in their hand?
Mines the one subpoena in the pocket!
"So if he 'lives' in WoW ...
Why is he filing a lawsuit in RL??"
His WoW character's playing a rpg where he's an attention-seeking minor criminal and jailhouse lawyer. He's obviously filing so many suits because he's trying to level up.
Seriously though, I don't think this guy is crazy. I think he's just bored.
I sypathise completely with the nutter...
I have lived in the world of Manic Miner when I was a child, I did manage to escape the mines only to be traped in Elite space dodging Thargoid attacks while jumping through hyperspace for the next few years...
Mines the white coat with the extra long arms...
...that the courts do actually have to give it some consideration, even if they subsequently dismiss it. People filing frivolous papers to courts should be charged for the time the lawyers have to give it. That would discourage such frivolous nonsense.
Is the guy a proper nutjob? Possibly. Maybe he's just the one piece short of a jigsaw, but these ridiculous court filings are just a hobby and he gets a kick out of wasting the courts' time.
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