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NEWS: Lawsuit Filed Against Pokémon Go Developers

Why should it be the property owner's burden to remove themselves from the app? It would be one thing if Niantic made reasonable efforts to avoid Pokemon appearing on private property, but they clearly just dumped everything they had into it - he may not win, but there's pretty decent grounds for a negligence suit(especially since this is class action, rather than personal).

You can't write off every lawsuit as unnecessary litigation just because there's a lot of it. Yes, the amount's large, but that's a standard legal tactic because you can't ask for more in damages after the fact; the judge will decide what's actually reasonable. And that's before the attempt to get class action status, which means each individual affect will receive a pittance.

Maybe you should read further about the lawsuit. But I don't expect it to change your mind too much: you clearly feel too entitled to play on other peoples' property to understand.

Pretty lazy programming. All they needed to do is make only public identifiable places pokestops and not just scan for any points of interest.

Polycell wrote:

You can't write off every lawsuit as unnecessary litigation just because there's a lot of it. Yes, the amount's large, but that's a standard legal tactic because you can't ask for more in damages after the fact; the judge will decide what's actually reasonable. And that's before the attempt to get class action status, which means each individual affect will receive a pittance.

Who's writing off "every" anything? I'm writing off this lawsuit as unnecessary litigation, which it is. IDGAF about the tactics, the lawsuit itself is unjust. Once again, you don't get to demand $5 million because someone knocked on your door.

Polycell wrote:

Maybe you should read further about the lawsuit. But I don't expect it to change your mind too much: you clearly feel too entitled to play on other peoples' property to understand.

Unless there's something specific in that link to make it relevant for me to read from the perspective of my argument, I'm not going to waste my time. Likewise, you seem too self-entitled to understand that there is a time and place for litigation. And FYI, I don't even play Pokémon Go much, and wouldn't dream of knocking on someone's door to ask to catch Pokémon. The idea that that justifies sueing anyone, however, is ludicrous, along with the idea that knocking on someone's door and asking permission is equal to trespassing.

YamiWheeler wrote:

Polycell wrote: You can't write off every lawsuit as unnecessary litigation just because there's a lot of it. Yes, the amount's large, but that's a standard legal tactic because you can't ask for more in damages after the fact; the judge will decide what's actually reasonable. And that's before the attempt to get class action status, which means each individual affect will receive a pittance. Who's writing off "every" anything? I'm writing off this lawsuit as unnecessary litigation, which it is. IDGAF about the tactics, the lawsuit itself is unjust. Once again, you don't get to demand $5 million because someone knocked on your door. Polycell wrote: Maybe you should read further about the lawsuit. But I don't expect it to change your mind too much: you clearly feel too entitled to play on other peoples' property to understand. Unless there's something specific in that link to make it relevant for me to read from the perspective of my argument, I'm not going to waste my time. Likewise, you seem too self-entitled to understand that there is a time and place for litigation. And FYI, I don't even play Pokémon Go much, and wouldn't dream of knocking on someone's door to ask to catch Pokémon. The idea that that justifies sueing anyone, however, is ludicrous, along with the idea that knocking on someone's door and asking permission is equal to trespassing.

Sorry but look at how little they have done to fix the issue despite the many complaints on the matter. They didn't start working on an opt out system until after the lawsuit was filled, which I'm sure is what caused them to start. Companies don't care about complaints unless it will cost them money and as people who are not playing are not customers they were not listening.