   Hasbro lawsuit, where it may have come from
  I was reading Slashdot Games (it's much better than the rest of the site), and happened across an article with Hasbro suing some guy for making Risk with Google Maps (which was really awesome when I tried it).So I flip through the comments out of habit and come across this little post:Quote:Re:First Question! (Score:2) by SilentChris (452960)  on Sunday December 04, @01:36PM (#14179800) (http://slashdot.org/) I actually briefly interned for the law firm that Hasbro uses. One guy had his office filled with toys (Mr. Potato Head and the like). In one corner was a framed check (lawyers often keep fake ones for memorabilia) of a $100,000 victory over some company.Anyway, this was back in the day when the internet was still taking off. I was working on this guy's computer and, seeing I knew about them, he asked me "Are there any games online that are similar to what Hasbro makes?" Without thinking, I mentioned Download.com and all its shareware.A couple of days later, I see him walking by with a huge stack of printouts -- screenshots of webpages. They were every little piece of shareware he could find that bared the faintest resemblance to a Hasbro title. He mentioned, "That was a great site you told me about." and walked off. A couple of months later I saw a number of those games disappear forever.To this day, I'm kicking myself over telling him about it. Moral of the story: unless they're defending you, don't ever talk to a lawyer, even in passing. [ Reply to This | Parent ]Wouldn't it be funny if he was the one who started that whole Hasbro Lawsuit crap five or six years ago?   
Quote:Original post by RavuyaI was reading Slashdot Games (it's much better than the rest of the site), and happened across an article with Hasbro suing some guy for making Risk with Google Maps (which was really awesome when I tried it).So I flip through the comments out of habit and come across this little post:Quote:Re:First Question! (Score:2) by SilentChris (452960)  on Sunday December 04, @01:36PM (#14179800) (http://slashdot.org/) I actually briefly interned for the law firm that Hasbro uses. One guy had his office filled with toys (Mr. Potato Head and the like). In one corner was a framed check (lawyers often keep fake ones for memorabilia) of a $100,000 victory over some company.Anyway, this was back in the day when the internet was still taking off. I was working on this guy's computer and, seeing I knew about them, he asked me "Are there any games online that are similar to what Hasbro makes?" Without thinking, I mentioned Download.com and all its shareware.A couple of days later, I see him walking by with a huge stack of printouts -- screenshots of webpages. They were every little piece of shareware he could find that bared the faintest resemblance to a Hasbro title. He mentioned, "That was a great site you told me about." and walked off. A couple of months later I saw a number of those games disappear forever.To this day, I'm kicking myself over telling him about it. Moral of the story: unless they're defending you, don't ever talk to a lawyer, even in passing. [ Reply to This | Parent ]Wouldn't it be funny if he was the one who started that whole Hasbro Lawsuit crap five or six years ago?It would be kind of funny.The "I've just mistakenly pushed an old lady down the stairs" kind of funny.  [wink]   ;Quote:Original post by jfclavetteThe "I've just mistakenly pushed an old lady down the stairs" kind of funny."I mistook her for Martha Stewert."   