Germany bans ALL the everything

Germany Bans the Xbox 360

QuoteA "shock ruling" in a patent dispute between Microsoft and Motorola involving the H.264 video codec means the company will no longer be allowed to distribute its Xbox 360 console to retailers in Germany and might even have to recall systems currently in stock and destroy them. The injunction against the distribution of "key Microsoft products" in the country also encompasses Windows 7 discs and the digital distribution of Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player.

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lOL :P
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and not even a scam indeed ;)
i see the xbox market shrinking "a tiny bit" in europe
We hate XBOX we all buy PlayStation 3
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Quoteand the digital distribution of Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player.


Oh the horrors.
Quotemight even have to recall systems currently in stock and destroy them.


DESTROY
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Burn all the books.
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DELETE

EXTERMINATE
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Who cares about the XBOX, its inferior to the PS3 anyway. :P
better controler, brah!
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happens all the time in Germany, the rulling doesnt take effect most time tho since the other company appeals the ban and after that both companies agree on something
would you seriously consider a settlement, if you're eligible for $4 bil per year? what absurd sum would that have to be to make them go for it?!
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On the other hand, Microsoft sued Motorola in a few hundred cases around the globe. They always come to an agreement.
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well they certainly won't be able to make demands for a hundred ones. but well, we'll see if it's really in their interest in the end or if they just choose to pay a fine and keep theirs up :)
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Usually they agree on "I pay you X$, will continue using your patent and you can continue using my (not as important) patent in case xyz"

No big deal, really.

A few Samsung smartphones and tablets have already been banned, never had any effect tho.
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Only if Microsoft agrees to Motorola charging too much for their patents on H264 will Motorola not start banning Xbox's it seems.

But Microsoft seems to want to push having those prices lowered...

So yeah
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"Germans"

Prefer Wietpas over this :D
Back to WWII???
this copyright stuff is getting crazy
hahahah:DD Did I understand something wrong or are all the XBOXes really out of the market from whole Germany?:D
first green blood and now this? :DDD
What does one thing have to do with the other?
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glad that you've asked. the answer is nothing ;-)
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this how we roll!
ps3 > xbox 360 anyway.
i bet ppl lolled a lot :D
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think so yes:)
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It's not going to happen...
wait. what? so the xbox's would have to be destroyed? wouldnt it make a BIT more sense to just ship them out into a country where the courts havnt made that ruling, and they could resell them quite happily?

nice judicial system germany! WP
calm down, the ruling wont take effect anyways.
Those rulings happen all the time in Germany.
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No, let's rather start a shitstorm because breaking patent laws always results in holocaust.
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No that doesn't make sense at all!!!!
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Funny thing about Xbox is that by the Microsoft and also on the manual/box it says that you are only buying the rights to use this Xbox that you have , which means everyone who owns Xbox is basically lending it from Microsoft and Microsoft has those rights :O)

Xbox > PS3
The funnier one is that the UK has just banned access to The Pirate Bay torrent site, and is asking internet service providers to block people from accessing it.

Since the 'ban' The Pirate Bay's hits have increased by 12 million :D
Finland's biggest ISP was forced to do that months ago. Dont really care though since you can still use piratebay through proxy or use some torrent search engine like isohunt.
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Same here, there are also some plugins who let you access it. Or you can google it and access the cache and you just load the page :DDDDD
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Pirateproxy.net
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It's only a dns level ban anyway, so it's easy enough to 'bypass' it, especially when a lot of people are now using a different one than from their ISP.
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lol what a boss
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he's the boss!
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Brussel's north station smells pee today, this is incredible... Why do the niggers pee everywhere?

e: goku's a pussy, he sent me 'it's a pity i've just left the station'. HE SO SACRED OF ME CAUSE OF MY BIG MUSCLES

And man, the hobo next to me smells like my 4 days underwears..
PC all the way.
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