I agree that attorney's fees should be awarded to the defendant if he wins, but there is not a fundamental equality between plaintiffs and defendants. Even your own argument that people should be disincentivized from suing people should give you reason to agree with me, there's no more reasonable deterrent than making it impossible for lawsuits to be profitable unless the claim is very large.
Stop making Billy Mitchell sound cooler than he is. He's a litigious scumbag that plays old arcade games, not someone who can telepathically mindrape youtubers into killing themselves. Apollo killed himself because he was chronically ill and fucked in the head, not because Billy Mitchell used the power of his American flag suit to jump into Apollo's body and forced him to blow his head off.
Can't lie, both parties involved are faggots so I can't really say either outcome was preferable.
The kid should get out and touch fucking grass. Otherwise he'll end up like fucking DSP pining over getting 4th place at some shitty street fighter game that no one cares about. Or worse yet, getting into his 40s, getting married, having a kid and buying a house only to lose it all in a lawsuit against another faggot who got the super high score in Donkey Kong (a game that no one cares about) 45 years ago.
I wonder what his basis for saying all of that in the first place was. Rumors on some random speedrunning discord?
It is against Twin Galaxy's rules to use emulators, and Billy consistently led people to believe he was playing on the real arcade board when analysis proved he was using MAME for at least one of his late records (not the ones from the 80s, which are presumably legit).
All I am hearing is that I should really just file frivolous lawsuits in Australia. They basically see an American filing bullshit and just give them money.
They did cover for him for decades and that definitely calls his older records into question. They're highly suspect especially when in a handful of circumstances the only evidence that he achieved those records was a guy from TG who witnessed it and that's it.
For the same reason so many people believe it, it's a fairly reasonable assumption before you really look into it, Youtuber loses litigious court case and then commits suicide. It's not hard to make assumptions and connect the dots even if it turns out they weren't actually there, but Karl is someone who probably read the actual suicide note so it is dubious. He probably just didn't think it was a big deal to claim it, based on the damage it caused Billy it honestly wasn't, but it was still untrue. He's lack of any remorse, his related Billy content and lack of a proper apology once corrected convinced the judge that that made the claims with malice for Billy in his mind, rather than it just being a careless and incorrect thing to say.
He said he read a post on Reddit (that claimed there was a large settlement). At which point the Judge asked what Reddit is. (See judgement paras 87 - 89).
Daily reminder every single DSP troll is the same person
