[identity profile] genesayssitdown.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] davis_square
btw, please let me know if my rate of posting is too high for this community. but this is an incredible article:

Reader Jason sent over a blog post that sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, following the story through a variety of twists and turns. The key player in the story is Jonathan Monsarrat, who among other things founded the video game company Turbine (Asheron's Call, Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons & Dragons Online, etc.). In early 2010, Monsarrat was arrested concerning events at a party in Massachusetts. The charges against him were later dismissed. However, there were various blog discussions among local bloggers and commenters. Not long ago, approximately three years after all of this happened, Monsarrat sued two named defendants and 100 "John Does" in a Massachusetts (not federal) court on a variety of charges, centering around defamation, but also including copyright infringement, commercial disparagement, deceptive trade practices and conspiracy. He's asking for an astounding $5.5 million.

Read the full story: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/02413623115/bogus-lawsuit-plus-threats-to-those-who-write-about-it-leads-to-epic-response.shtml

Date: 2013-05-17 05:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anomie666.livejournal.com
and I quote:

That, of course, is bullshit

Amen, brother.

Date: 2013-05-17 06:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] juldea.livejournal.com
This is a beautiful article.

Date: 2013-05-17 06:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] agharta75.livejournal.com
Chances the author of this receives a Doe letter ...

Date: 2013-05-17 06:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trowa-barton.livejournal.com
Wonderful piece of writing.

Date: 2013-05-17 09:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ziemela.livejournal.com
At this point, I gotta wonder how Turbine feels about all this. Sure, he was a co-founder, but he's since cashed out, aye? Doesn't stop him from writing this in the press release linked to in the post below:

His videogames company, Turbine, created Lord of the Rings Online and was bought by Warner Brothers for $160 million in 2010.

Date: 2013-05-18 04:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] paper-crystals.livejournal.com
I feel like JonMon got more free publicity about the sketchiness of said party three years ago by suing everyone on Livejournal than he could have ever hoped for just by leaving the davis_square post be. As well, now the rest of the East Coast outside of Boston has been exposed to his tenuous connection with reality.
Edited Date: 2013-05-18 04:09 am (UTC)

Date: 2013-05-19 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] litia2005.livejournal.com
Wow, what a massacre!

Date: 2013-06-11 01:58 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ron_newman
Techdirt has now published a followup article, noting that the plaintiff has voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit without any settlement.

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