Valve wins legal battle against patent troll Rothschild and associated companies

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/valve-wins-legal-battle-against-patent-troll-rothschild-and-associated-companies/

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Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 197d

As punishment, they must supply RAM for the Steam Deck and Steam Machine.

Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 197d (1 reply)

Valve lawyers must be on par with Disney or Nintendo because they always seem to pull through.

halfsalesman@piefed.social · 18 pts · 197d

No, its just that this was clearly a bullshit case.

Disney and Nintendo are usually the ones with a bullshit or evil legal action. Valve is usually the target of because they're very pro-consumer and thus hard to compete with. Bad actors want to come in an enshittify for profit and are functionally blocked by Valve's existence.

The exception of this is the whole gambling bullshit with CS2 skins, which Valve deserves to be legally scrutinized for. But as far as evil corporate bullshit, Valve is extremely tame.

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 197d

Calling the Rothschilds a patent troll is like calling the Marquis de Sade "a bit of a hornball"

Edit: Looks like the troll isn't part of the Rothchild international crime syndicate

1984@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 197d (1 reply)

Is it the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family?

One of the richest families in the world.

joker54@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 197d

From what I can find, no.