A PlayStation 3 gamer has filed suit (PDF) in U.S. District Court in California, alleging that SCEA suppressed his free speech rights and caused him pain and suffering by banning his account on the PlayStation Network.

In a complaint filed on July 6th, Erik Estavillo of San Jose writes that he is disabled by a variety of disorders; among these are agoraphobia, a fear of crowds, to quote:
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In several recent releases, it seems that Atari published games for the Wii based on ScummVM, which was released under the GPL.

Atari contracted Majesco, who contracted a company named Mistic Software with offices in the Ukraine.

When the fact that the GPL was being violated was brought to Atari's attention, they were kind at first until it was discovered...

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A Michigan-based networking company on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Google, Microsoft, and Apple, alleging that all three tech giants violated a patent it owns on the use of document preview icons (thumbnails) in operating systems.

In the suit (PDF), Cygnus Systems targets Google's Chrome, Microsoft's Vista and Internet Explorer 8, and Apple's iPhone, Safari, and Mac OS X as...

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The musician behind the song that caused the highly anticipated PlayStation 3 game “Little Big Planet” to get recalled just days before its release has defended his song in a statement issued to MTV Multiplayer.

Perhaps even more significantly, singer Toumani Diabate has explained what the song is about and why its inclusion of verses from the Qur’an is his “way to attract and...

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VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi recently published an exhaustive history of the manufacturing issues that have surrounded the Xbox 360, resulting in still unknown numbers of defective consoles and a $1 billion price tag for Microsoft's games division.

Hypersensitive readers who pined for the day when we could all just "move on" from the story weren't the only invested parties who took...

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Hillcrest Labs, a Maryland-based technology firm, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nintendo in US Federal Court today, claiming that Nintendo’s Wii console violated Hillcrest Labs’ patent rights.

Hillcrest Labs alleges that Nintendo violated patents relating to a handheld three-dimensonal pointing device.

The company said that it holds 29 patents...

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An Xbox Live member who goes by the name of Grant is in outrage after Microsoft banned his gamertag “theGAYERgamer.”

Reportedly, he called up the company’s support line and was told that he violated XBL’s terms of service, with other members reporting his tag as offensive.

I talked to a supervisor there, Roxy, who told me that she didn’t personally...

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A Web site that a Dutch right-wing politician was planning to use to release a film expected to be fiercely critical of Islam has been suspended.

The US hosting service, Network Solutions, said it was investigating complaints that it may have breached guidelines on hate language.

Dutch politician Geert Wilders says the 15-minute film describes Islam as "the...

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SupremeFactory, the manufacture/distribution center of Divineo recently raided by Nintendo, has issued a "press release" today (available at the link above, or below).

Max Louarn et al. claims Nintendo has violated an agreement in their previously-released www.nintendo.com not to divulge any details of the raid "except for the purposes of the proceeding" by issuing their own press release....

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After the stealing thousands of telephone calling card numbers back in early August, several mod-chip resellers ended up closing shop and/or selling off on eBay and similar auction sites.

Today, we now have confirmation of a remaining manufacturer and distributer of illegal circumvention devices being raided, namely Divineo (retail division) and SupremeFactory (wholesale division). Documents found at the raid site connected...

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