Xfire sues over Gamespy Comrade...

[Lucid]

...Xfire filed the suit and a request for a temporary restraining order to prevent IGN or any of its partners from distributing Comrade the day before Battlefield 2142 was scheduled to ship to retail. In a filing in support of the restraining order, Xfire CEO Michael Cassidy specified how his company believes the Comrade program works. First, Cassidy said it reads the user's Xfire handle from the XfireUser.ini file, then visits a formulaic URL on the Xfire site to get a list of the user's friends (for instance, to find the friends list of Xfire user Aragorn, Comrade would go to http://www.xfire.com/friends/aragorn). The names on that friends list are then compared with a central IGN database of Comrade users' Xfire handles, and if any matches turn up, the user is asked if they want to invite those people to their Comrade buddy lists...

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Tbh, I've never even heard of Gamespy Comrade before this... o.o

 

[Uriel]

Simplify this so a 8 year old can understand this, include pictures and lots of big text.
In other words, I'm too lazy/tired to read all of this.

 

[Narcolepsy]

 

[Uriel]

Whoa whoa whoa, so Judy was cheating on Melvin?
I am still way confused.

 

[CyberPitz]

Yeah..most confusing news post evar.

 

[AmishSlayer]

I thought it made sense...

 

[-Psy-]

Stupid EA. lol

 

[Steel.Inferno]

That really wasn't terribly hard to understand.

IGN makes a buddy IM thing. Like XFire. Then once its installed it checks if you have xfire installed. If you do, it take your account name and checks online for your XFire friends list. If any of those people have "Comrade" it adds them to your comrade list.


If you're still confused: it steals a competitors data from your computer to use.

 

[CyberPitz]

That really wasn't terribly hard to understand.

IGN makes a buddy IM thing. Like XFire. Then once its installed it checks if you have xfire installed. If you do, it take your account name and checks online for your XFire friends list. If any of those people have "Comrade" it adds them to your comrade list.


If you're still confused: it steals a competitors data from your computer to use.

That makes all the sense...what horseshit.

 

[Uriel]

I was being sarcastic about the confusion.

 

[CyberPitz]

I was being sarcastic about the confusion.

I wasn't. I had no clue what comrade was...and that just added with the lack of sleep. Hell the ABC's confuse me now.

 

[Uriel]

I don't mind large corporations. But i HATE greedy corporations no matter how big or small they are.