in light of this news...
Infinium Labs Vs. HardOCP - Round 2
12 days ago Infinium Labs called a press conference and told the world that if our article entitled, Behind the Infinium Phantom Console was not removed from HardOCP.com in 10 days they would file lawsuits against us as outlined here in two sets of letters from two sets of lawyers representing Infinium Labs and CEO Tim Roberts. The lawyers explained that our article was full of inaccuracies, but they failed to point out exactly what was not right with our article for the last five months as it is published on HardOCP.com
Last Friday, February 27, 2004 Infinium Labs lawyers once again contacted us via email and submitted a 5 page document to us that outlines 18 items they want changed or removed or explained in their words. We have once again been given a 10 day deadline or, “Otherwise, you can expect a lawsuit.”
This letter was received via email from Tina-Michelle Pittsley from the lawfirm of Icard, Merrill, Cullis, Timm, Furen & Ginsburg, P.A. and is represented as being written by James E. Aker.
The odd thing to me about the above letter is that it continually refers to statements we never made and innuendos that are nonexistent in our article, Behind the Infinium Phantom Console. In fact, after reading the letter I had to wonder if we were actually referencing the same document. Still this is something that needs to be taken very seriously as we are obligated to hear out Infinium Labs’ issues with our article.
After hours of consideration, out of the 18 items noted we have found 5 that were in need of addressing as outlined below. They are numbered to correspond with the request in the above published document. To put it succinctly, none of the changes below do anything to change my thoughts about Infinium Labs or change the overall content of our article in our opinion as it was published at the time.
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5. We will gladly change the company name from “Emedhire, LLC” to “MEDHIRE, LLC.” Please do note that “Emedhire, LLC” is exactly how the company name was documented on Mr. Roberts\' resume and as he identified the company name in a phone interview on September 17, 2003.
8. In reference to BIG, we will gladly remove the statement, “According to this article, they lived the high life on investors\' money and then left investors hanging for more than $15 million dollars:” that is being brought to our attention.
The sentence has been changed to quote more accurately, “According to this article, “Broadband executives lived the high life, sponsoring race cars in the Indy 500 and other races, hosting Hollywood parties, buying an interest in an airplane and making thousands of dollars worth of improvements to a $35 million headquarters. But last November (2000), the tech venture went bust. By then it had burned through more than $15 million of investors\' money, including some from several St. Louis Cardinals owners. Roberts could not be reached for comment.”
9. As requested, the duration of Mr. Roberts’ employment duration at WorldCom in our article has been changed from, “SBD - Major Accounts Nov \'01-present” as stated on his archived resume to “90 days employment in late 2001.”
11. We incorrectly reported Tim Roberts\' age as 21 years old in 1997. Please do note that Mr. Roberts related to us during a phone interview on September 17, 2003 that he was 22 years of age in 1998. This has been corrected as requested.
12. Infinium Labs logo and Phantom logo were removed as requested on February 19, 2004. We do however believe that the marks were properly used under fair use guidelines. However, since they are not critical to the article’s content, they have been removed.
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As for the rest of Infinium Labs\' demands, they seem to us to simply not be based in reality. They repeatedly note statements that we never made and seem to draw illogical innuendos from the facts that were documented by Infinium Labs’ CEO Tim Roberts\' own website and resume. As for our opinions they are clearly noted as such and we stand by them.
Will Infinium Labs ever bring a viable Phantom Console to market? I honestly do not know the answer to that question. I will make you a promise though, if they do, HardOCP will buy one and show you the insides!
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTk4
Looks like CEO Tim Roberts has taken the gloves off... so what does this mean?
Is the Phantom REAL ?
Will they Show at E3 ?
Do we Care ?
I know i For one can\'t wait to E3 to see what happens.
Infinium Labs could be the Talk of the SHOW....
