Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Nemo View Post
The Dr. Mario reference refers to a forum moderator who typically only responds to correct people instead of saying his opinion about the thread at hand and moving on. I'm sure Shard and Gypsy know what I'm talking about.

I'm surprised this is still being talked about, but at least all of you are missing the point of the case. Spose decided for some odd reason not to include Motorolla had a RAND for those codices when trying to inform people. The RAND was in place the entire time the 360 was in development and during the manufacturing of the console. It wasn't until Google owned a good chunk of Motorolla that this case came to be.

The reason why this case occurred was due to Motorolla changing their RAND policy for said codecs. The company decided to charged more for the RAND and only raised the price of the license for a select few, mainly Microsoft. The open contract doesn't allow Motorolla to do that, which is why Microsoft sued Motorolla. They weren't trying to sue Motorolla because of the codec, it was due to the unfair treatment they were getting from the previous agreement. Of course, there was a loophole in the contract that allowed them to change the fees and that is what is being fought over (and also why Motorolla won the initial lawsuit). The possible ban for the console is due to not paying the new fees to use said codices, which will violate the agreement to use the patent. Both parties are dicks, but Motorolla is the true dick in this case.

Like I said though, this will be settled by doing some quick modifying to the codices and/or a little side money to shut them up.
I already have stated my opinion on this topic.

Quote Originally Posted by Spose' View Post
The reason for the stop of sales on 360's is 100% legal in this case. As they are in violation of patents that are used in every 360. If the case wins Motorola has the right to stop the sales, but ultimately it's up to them.

Sure you may not like it, but it is in favor with U.S patent laws. And this will only effect the U.S, the rest of the world it would be up to there laws and if they want to abide by them.

I say motorolla because they could drop the suit if they want to.
Which is also the 3rd post on this thread. So clearly you either,

A. Skipped through it.
B. Avoided Reading it
C. Did not read it
or,
D. Didn't read it.

And i didn't include the fact that they had a rand because its not important part of the terms when using it in the RAND allows the law-suite. Not to mention it was included in the article you would read that they had a RAND.

And i might as well end this post because the whole point was to prove that i didn't just correct people and not input my opinion as you say Dr. Mario does or whatever.