Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate 239
Benjamin Duranske writes "Jonathan Lee Riches, an inmate in South Carolina famous for filing long, handwritten, rambling screeds against celebrities, politicians, and even buildings, has filed a third-party motion in Federal Court in Arizona in the MDY v. Blizzard botting case claiming that Blizzard's World of Warcraft 'caused Riches mind to live in a virtual universe, where Riches explored the landscape committing identity theft and fighting cybermonster rival hacker gangs. Riches was addicted to video games and lost touch with reality because of defendants. This caused Riches to commit fraud to buy defendants video games. Riches chose World of Warcraft over working a legit job, Riches mind became a living video game.'"
already happened elsewhere (Score:1, Interesting)
If a Florida judge can bar Jack Thompson from filing without a real lawyer doing it for him, certainly one can order this loon to stop filing without a real lawyer too. If he's already in prison, he is probably destitute, so then the trick becomes assigning a pro-bono lawyer every time he gets a bug up his ass about something. Of course, IANAL so maybe (probably) in civil court you are not entitled to a lawyer, so what happens when a judge effectively bars a poor person from seeking legal redress because he can't file a grievance?
stupid "it's been 15 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment" filter. I get why there is a limit, but why is it .gt.5 minutes? What is the minimum time?
Re:Riches chose World of Warcraft... (Score:3, Interesting)
Isn't WoW a prison unto itself?
Re:check out the last order in this case (Score:3, Interesting)
Poor judge who has to deal with it and waste time on actually writing a full motion to dismiss the case [justia.com], including references to supreme court cases explaining what is delusional and what's not. A fun read nonetheless :).