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Opening the XBOX FloodGates

By Chris Bennett, Tudor Carsten, Michael R. Coburn, Sarah Dale-Harris, Pablo Guzman, Danielle (Dani) Lemon, Chris Metcalfe and David Spratley

Wow, talk about litigious. In an earlier posting we reported about gamer-turned-litigator, Erik Estavillo. He sued Nintendo because he says a Wii update that limits cheating is "interfering with certain players pursuit of happiness". He's also suing Sony and Activision Blizzard.<p> <p> Recently he sued Microsoft for $75,000, claiming pain and suffering resulted from the death of his XBOX 360. He says the XBOX is one of the only ways he socializes because he has agoraphobia. He also can't afford to get a new 360 or to replace the data he lost on his old one. <p> <p> As part of his lawsuit he's subpoenaed Bill Gates. Apparently he wants to find out the number of XBOX 360s that have experienced the Red Ring of Death, and how many of those XBOX 360s Microsoft has repaired. Oh, and on another note he wants to know how many XBOX Live users have been banned for piracy in the last year. You never know... that info could come in handy, eh? <p> <p> Coverage here.<p>Bookmarks: <a href="http://del.icio.us/login/?url=http://www.davis.ca/en/blog/Video-Game-Law/2009/12/07/Opening-the-XBOX-FloodGates&title=Opening+the+XBOX+FloodGates" >Delicious</a>, <a href="http://digg.com/tools/digthis.php?u=http://www.davis.ca/en/blog/Video-Game-Law/2009/12/07/Opening-the-XBOX-FloodGates" >Digg </a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.davis.ca/en/blog/Video-Game-Law/2009/12/07/Opening-the-XBOX-FloodGates">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=add&bkmk=http://www.davis.ca/en/blog/Video-Game-Law/2009/12/07/Opening-the-XBOX-FloodGates&title=Opening+the+XBOX+FloodGates" >Google</a>, <a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http://www.davis.ca/en/blog/Video-Game-Law/2009/12/07/Opening-the-XBOX-FloodGates&title=Opening+the+XBOX+FloodGates">Reddit</a>, <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.davis.ca/en/blog/Video-Game-Law/2009/12/07/Opening-the-XBOX-FloodGates&title=Opening+the+XBOX+FloodGates">StumbleUpon</a>, <a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=http://www.davis.ca/en/blog/Video-Game-Law/2009/12/07/Opening-the-XBOX-FloodGates&=Opening+the+XBOX+FloodGates" >Yahoo</a>

Full post as published by Video Game Law Blog on December 08, 2009 (boomark / email).