• Luminous5481 [they/them]@anarchist.nexus
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    1 day ago

    Pocket change when it comes to Valve

    Pocket change when it comes to a Rothschild as well. This isn’t going to discourage them, that family is the dictionary definition of old money.

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      23 hours ago

      Even if it’s actually the Rothschilds we’re talking about, that doesn’t mean these guys are from one of the branches of the family where the money is. The Rothschilds got rich in the 18th century, so that’s quite some time for wealth and influence to wane.

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      Apparently it’s not the Rothschild family but an independent patent troll based in NY?

      I’m genuinely asking because someone else in another thread claimed they were of no relation and I can’t seem to confirm that.

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        The patent troll is literally named Rothschild, and there whole thing is he runs a network of matryoshka-esque shell companies, that do the patent trolling.

        One of the major points of this legal battle is that Valve is saying ‘look, this dude has a network of shell companies, he is submitting blatent bullshit in the form of actual misconduct during legal proceedings, to the court, we want to sue him personally for damages.’

        https://dockets.justia.com/docket/washington/wawdce/2:2023cv01016/323951

        The case that this article is about mentions this, has that link right there in it, but, that particular case is not the one that was decided, that the article is primarily about.

        The case that the article is primarily about is the one with so many egregious instances of legal malpractice that occured during it, that Valve started the suit in that link, to literally sue Rothschild for damages.

        Like uh, in the proceedings of the case the OP article is about… the Rothschild shell company sued Valve for things that Valve already had a valid contract with them to use.

        The Rothschild lawyer/legal team literally said ‘oh oops we didn’t realize that before I sued you.’

        This is an insanely stupid thing to do.

        The Rothschild lawyer/legal team also submitted to the court a bunch of hallucinated AI references to ‘precedent establishing cases’ that either did not even exist, or, were massively misconstrued, as the actual cases were nothing like what the Rothschild legal team described.

        This is also an insanely stupid thing to do.