Their stock price going down is definitely enough to at least make it to trial. Maybe a jury or judge might determine that it dint actually cause damage overall, but it’d be silly to claim that there isn’t any damage claim whatsoever
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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoI mean what are they going to charge them with? Isn’t the point of suing someone that they have to prove damages. So they would have to prove that slowly releasing information about their game somehow impacted there sales/profits wouldn’t they?
MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 1 week ago
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
If stocks drop because information that hypes people up for your product comes out it’s worse than crypto and everyone is being scammed.
The reason the stock is dropping is because they said you’ll get a product by x, and the product isn’t going to be ready. If you don’t make deadlines people think you are incompetent. People don’t like to invest in incompetent companies.
makeshift0546@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Do you know house much a team of some of the highest paid IT forensics age lawyers cost? That’s before stock and says damages the team will come up with.
They’ll be buried with paperwork and costs for their own legal team and looking at wage garnishment as well as be unhireable for anyone doing their due diligence.
It won’t be about the money. It’ll be about pain for the leaker and discouragement for the next person dumb enough to do it.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I’d argue if they sued the guy they should lose lose sales. As such they would be hurting themselves to sue him. Hell I’ll just outright say I’ll never buy or play another rockstar game if they sue someone for it.
gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Well, I’m not sure what the burden of proof is exactly, but the argument that the game has a narrative aspect to it and that releasing information about the game, namely information related to the story and plot of the narrative, could spoil the game and curtail potential buyers seems reasonable, at least.
istdaslol@feddit.org 1 week ago
Profiting off their IP for example. The leaker has their own shitcoin. And chances are the build didn’t just materialise on its own on their Harddrive and some cybercrime was involved to get it, if not just breach of contract.