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Niantic faces a class action lawsuit for encouraging trespassing on private property:
When Niantic released Pokemon Go, it randomly placed Pokémon, Pokéstops and Pokémon Gyms all over the world. Players of the game wander the real world and use smartphones to capture Pokemon, buy items and fight Pokemon Gym leaders.
"To create that immersive world, Niantic made unauthorized use of Plaintiff's and other Class members' property by placing Pokéstops and Pokémon gyms thereupon or nearby," said Jennifer Pafiti in the lawsuit. "In so doing, Niantic has encouraged Pokémon Go's millions of players to make unwanted incursions onto the properties of plaintiff, and other members of the class, a clear and ongoing invasion of their use and enjoyment of their land from which defendants have profited and continue to profit."
Due to the randomized placement of the Pokémon, Pokéstops and Pokémon Gyms, they have turned up in some unwanted locations such as in houses, cemeteries and museums. According to Jeffrey Marder, a man living in New Jersey, he received at least five unwelcome visitors that wanted access to his backyard to catch Pokémon within the first week of the game's launch.
"Plaintiff and other Class members have all suffered and will continue to suffer harm and damages as a result of Defendants' unlawful and wrongful conduct. A class action is superior to other available methods for the fair and efficient adjudication of this controversy," said Pafiti.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by art guerrilla on Thursday August 04 2016, @01:01AM
wtf?
um, BECAUSE it was crowdsourced, (OR WHATEVER THE FUCK) *that* makes it 'okay' ?
that makes less than zero sense...
oh, they curated the info... sure they did...
it may very well be it was screwed up before, but only since it was you and your buddy 'playing', nobody noticed...
now that -apparently- half the stupid fucking human race is 'playing' this idiotic thing, it is more noticeable...
and, NO, i DON"T want poketards -OR ANYONE- wandering over our property, up our private road, around our house, FOR ANY OR NO REASON...
EXACTLY why i live in the country, so i don't see my stupid neighbors, i don't hear a million loud nekkid apes, and my dogs have the run of the property...
and YES, in our neck of the woods, basically ALL (non-neighbor) pedestrians ARE suspicious: we live too far out for anyone to just 'wander' by here on a lark, or on the way to someplace else, just don't happen... we are on the way to nowhere, with no through streets, and no businesses or anything of any significance that attracts people to walk around here...
you got a flat tire/whatever, you will get more help than you can use; you lost a dog, we will all look; you need a phone 'cause yours died, of course...
but IF you are a (non-neighbor) walking out here, it is 'unusual' enough to garner automatic and justifiable suspicion you are up to no good...
(bear in mind we -and a LOT of neighbors- leave our houses unlocked when we go away for a week or more...)
(Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Thursday August 04 2016, @01:37AM
You called me a liar after I proved to you that Niantic staff personally vetting each and every location to ensure it's publicly accessible (among other TOS requirements), and STILL no apology? You're a dick. No wonder you live in the country, nobody would ever want to be around a fucking asshole like you. I feel sorry for the poor sod that has a flat tire near your precious wasteland, as you'll likely treat them like dog shit you scrapped off your shoe, like you have me.
shitass.
I am a crackpot
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday August 04 2016, @05:43PM
You've proved nothing.
You've made a bunch of unsubstantiated claims of vetting, yet players still appear on private property chasing digital apparitions that SHOULD NOT BE THERE.
Where's your vetting now?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Friday August 05 2016, @03:19AM
I am a crackpot
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Friday August 19 2016, @01:51AM
wtf? part two
i didn't call you a liar, i don't even know what you are talking about, and i could not care less about the ins-outs of the stupid pokeshit or any other such claptrap, whether it was 'crowdsourced' (why not simply say 'its magic!'), or who vetted what for what...
given how weird you talk, i am perfectly fine with you categorizing me as a 'foe' (whatever that stupid shit means)...
WHOEVER was talking about how harmless it was to have poketards (or anyone, anytime?) wander over your PRIVATE property, whether by 'mistake' or not: THAT is the point i was responding to... peoples' (NOT JUST precious, PRECIOUS ME) PRIVATE property has certain rights over YOUR non-right to wander wherever you fucking feel like it... i respect YOUR right to have your private property respected, why don't you respect mine ? ? ?
AGAIN, someone has vehicle trouble/etc, people (including me, yep, based on a true story) will help them out without a second thought... but 'wandering around' out here just isn't a common phenomenon... we got more livestock than people, more limerock than paved roads, and more unwalkable miles between anywhere, so pedestrians kind of stick out... and if you add on to that insult that they are poketards doing *WHAT* the fuck exactly ? ? ? yeah, then it is just maddening on top of annoying...
and finally, i am glad that you approve of my absenting my asshole self from the asphalt rat's maze you oh-so-kind mammals choose to live in; for myself, i prefer trees and flowers and critters and stars and sun and rain and plants and dogs and wind and NO OTHER stupid shits around honking and yelling and boomboxing and screeching and peeling out and yakking and banging and clanging and sirening and revving and shouting and screaming and driving like they are the only person on the road...
yeah, don't really miss too much of that...
foe on, bitch...