"If the only charge is 'assisting making available copyrighted content', it will be more difficult to prove than contributory infringement, which appeared to be the main original charge," notes Struan Robertson, Legal Director at Pinsent Masons LLP and a specialist in IP infringement and copyright law."
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
On Amazon, you can't get an RTX 4090 for less than this one from Gigabyte, which now offers great value after an eye-catching April deal.
" IP lawyer predicts demise of Pirate Bay"
EEEH no, well if im not mistaken, they only provide the torrents and not the software.
So how is it their demise?
Who cares? There are like millions of more sites like thepiratebay. What about isohunt, torrentportal, mininova, etc. Are they going to keep closing every site one by one like they did with torrentspy? What a waste of time...
Won't stop Torrents,just the cold hard truth.
Of course the IP lawyer is gonna say that. It's their job to try and shut it down so obviously they are not gonna go say NOPE I DONT THINK WE WILL WIN.
In all honestly The Pirate Bay has nothing to worry about they simply provided a service that people miss use and this has been happening for a very very long time on many different levels.
This would fall into the category of Microsoft see the end of PS3 and Sony believes Xbox 360 days are numbered. Only ones that have a good grasp of what's going to happen are the judges that are overseeing the case.