There was a flurry of discussion recently when Taser decided to sue Linden Lab for copyright infringement. Virtual World News picked up the story, which was also covered in New World Notes and in-depth on Massively.
The suit has now been dropped by Taser “without prejudice” according to Patent Arcade:
In an interesting twist, Taser International voluntarily dismissed this case before Linden even answered the complaint. Taser filed a Notice of Voluntary Case Dismissal on May 5, 2009. Because Linden never filed an answer, the dismissal is without prejudice and Taser could choose to refile the case at a later time if desired. But for now, this case is closed.
I thought it was fairly biggish news when it was dropped. I know I was only one of a whole bunch of people to cover it.
@Tateru – yeah, I missed it at the time, must have been asleep at the switch!
Also has to do with “follow-up” news not being covered as much as well. Remember the “age-play” fiasco way back when? B ig news about two residents age-playing, confirmed adults and the rumors of Robin being shown RL pedophelia imagery that were allegedly passed around.
Then I read some follow-ups that more or less “corrected” everything by showing that LL never could find the alleged pgotographs anywhere in nthe system (and we all know the kind of ‘access’ THEY have’ – and found how trumped-up, alarmist and manipulating they reporters were in all that.
But how much coverage did THAT story get?
I believe you (Dusan” and Tateru covered it, but nowhere near the number of blogs and so-called news sites that covered the original alegations did.
Just using that one as an example – there are dozens upon dozens of examples- SL related and real life related also. But you both know that already.
Thanks Ari –
Part of the reason I posted this was because I missed it when it first came out. I got the “Taser sues” story but I didn’t want to leave this trailing – kind of like how newspapers run corrections in tiny type on page 4 or whatever….not fair to anyone not to finish the story off.