Yahoo Sues Xfire

[KuRRupT]

I wonder which piece of code xfire stole?



i put 10 bucks it was the "XXXX is now typing a message"

[entRo]

HankPym wrote..

Good to see so many people here are knowledgable about copyright infringement and intellectual property, and are willing to take well-reasoned look at things.



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I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now.

Oh do as all a favor and shut the fuck up. Intellectual property laws can be easily exploited to give companies such as Yahoo a monopoly over such programs as these. Intellectual property allows rich countries to exploit poor ones, and let the rich get richer while independent inventors are ignored. Did you know genetic sequences can be considered intellectual property and patented, even if they are found in nature?



You know perfectly well that this is a greedy move by Yahoo in attacking the little guy. I hope you enjoy crying yourself to sleep at night, you're a thousand times better off than the people these laws exploit.



Asshole.

[masterren]

KuRRupT wrote..

I wonder which piece of code xfire stole?



i put 10 bucks it was the "XXXX is now typing a message"

I remember Microsoft got mad at AOL when AIM introduced this feature a while ago. Not sure what happened after that.

[The-Moose]

AIM can sick my duck.

[HankPym]

entRo wrote..

You know perfectly well that this is a greedy move by Yahoo in attacking the little guy.

Nope, I sure don't. Neither do you. In fact, I suspect you know very little about anything. I don't know if Yahoo! has a legitimate claim for their lawsuit or not. Maybe XFire really is using technology they've patented. Maybe they're not. I don't know any more than you do. It's not for us to decide, though - that's what the courts are for. So go fuck yourself.

[f0liage^]

Over here in europe you cant bring out patents on software. There are talks happening about it currently but specifically here in the UK, the head of the people who control the patents stated that he thinks software patents are rubbish and wont ever be brought into law here.



There are also rumours that Microsoft are going to start cracking down on smaller companies who have similar products to them (even if they are completely coded differently) this year.

[Yuseftps]

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Dey Took Yur Joob!

[KhAoS]

Not my words, quoted from Darth Viper3k on DCF forum...



you're right

you can't patent the serverice

what you CAN patent is the WAY you perform said service....the code in which you do it



such patents and copyrights are filed, sued over, and result in corprate takeovers everyday



This lawsuit is of such a patent so they say at least



however Yahoo is seriously in the wrong

see.. Yahoo's Patent revolves around the concept of 1) a buddy list in which each buddy uploads their unique IP AND ID and 2) their service connects to houndreds and thousands of gaming servers constantly (it probably runs a server check on 100 servers every second) and it looks for a match.... if it finds a match then it'll show your "buddy" as playing whatever game they were found playing



XFire works completely differently

in Windows to even get an app to function you have to tell Windows that you're in a "game state" or an "App State" if it isn't a game

it's a bit more complicated than just that though

Windows also needs more than just what state you're in... it needs an identification of this state

usually there is a simply txt file (that is compiled with the rest of the code) that stores the game's name and version

XFire looks for this "Game State" and the "Games Indenfication" which is then uploaded to XFire servers to allow people on your buddy list to be said to playing whatever game they're playing



and it gets more complex from there to add options such as the join



which is the very reason why XFire is capable of showing people to be playing offline



so... XFire and Yahoo do these 2 simular serverices completely differently

where the hell is the grounds for the lawsuit?

lol

[HankPym]

KhAoS wrote..

so... XFire and Yahoo do these 2 simular serverices completely differently

where the hell is the grounds for the lawsuit?

Well that's the real question. I know nothing about American patent law, and reading the actual patent certainly didn't help. I guess we'll see if Yahoo! has grounds or not.

[Linux]

entRo wrote..

Here's the plan guys..



First, we're headed to DC to get that motherfucker Bush and the neocon assholes out of there. Then, we're taking down every major corporation who is fucking us over from behind, and take down WTO with it. Then you can use Xfire or whatever else you want.



Then we're going to have the most massive American Gladiators-esque joust match the world has ever seen.. and peace will reign forever.

Agreed, I vote + for this one.



Its so true how our world is sue happy... I bed anyone were to make a program like xFire, Yahoo or some other company will come after you. I bet anything.

[KuRRupT]

Dey Took Yur Joob!!



(i laughed soooo hard at that SP episode)

[The_Expertx4]

Xfire is a great program. I hope it doesnt go under because of Yahoo.

[DeFade]

Ro@dKill wrote..

Better check your ASE the next time you fire it up and see who is taking over.

yep, hahahaahahaha

[Smurfzilla]

BrutalGoerge wrote..

these days suck... people are sueing people for anything.

Sum1 needs to hack yahoo and bring it down forever. el oh el

quoted for truth

[VuLLrath]

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haha good i hope xfire dies out... noobs... sick of installing cd's that ask to install xfire... then get spyware/adware/popups galore.



mirc32, aim (aol instant messanger), msn messanger, or ventrilo is all you need to talk with buds and know when some one is on.



programs like stupid xfire and that one site where you can look up people on cs -- was stupid as hell, and helping ass holes follow users into servers just to hack and/or annoy being bitches. - point is you cant escape em enless a/an admin bans. stalkers are gay as fuck and force you to change name for hours if not days before the pricks forget who their stalking.



if people become buddies then they will use steam friends list, or some other prog listed above... if their not friends then why the fuck look up a random player and join them? also, games have their own pinging & server filtering systems. dont need extra bs progs or sites like xfire and gametiger giving us more trouble then pleasure.



=P