California Gamer Subpoenas Bill Gates In RROD Suit

Valigarmander · 12-01-2009, 05:30 PM

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Erik Estavillo has sued Sony for allegedly violating his First Amendment rights and Blizzard for "deceitful business practices." Now he's targeting Microsoft over the "red ring of death" affecting his Xbox 360, and has subpoenaed none other than Bill Gates himself over the issue.

According to the subpoena obtained by GamePolitics, Gates is to bring "documents pertaining to the true and relative number of actual Xbox 360 units that have been fixed by Microsoft over the past 3 years." He's also seeking statistical data on how many Xbox 360's have broken down over the years and the actual number of people banned from Xbox Live for piracy between 11/28/2008 and 11/28/2009.

Gates isn't the first high-profile person to be summoned by Estavillo. In the Blizzard case, he subpoenaed actress Winona Ryder and Depeche Mode member Martin Lee Gore to testify on his behalf on the subject of alienation.

The latest subpoena was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Having now filed suit against Nintendo of America, Sony, Microsoft and Blizzard, Estavillo said he doesn't plan to sue anymore companies.

At the moment, he's appealing the verdict of the Sony suit, which was dismissed after the judge determined that there was no plausible First Amendment claim for relief. Estavillo is seeking $180,000 for what he says were a violation of his First Amendment rights after being banned from the PlayStation Network.

There needs to be legislation passed to prevent crap like this from mucking up our legal system.

Black Belt Tazy · 12-01-2009, 07:03 PM

Bill Gates has nothing to do with problems with the Xbox.

**Loot the Orphan Shover** · 12-02-2009, 11:21 PM

Apparently this guy is doing it for the attention. He's declared he has no friends and is doing this for gamers all over the world.

Wonder what happens if we just ignore him. Probably swell up and explode.

Zharen · 12-03-2009, 04:47 AM

As ridiculous as the whole suit is, I'm interested to see where it goes.

I am nobody · 12-03-2009, 05:56 AM

Why would he subpoena Gates? He hasn't had much involvement in Microsoft for years now.

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