Remember Steve Sheraton, the guy who created the iBeer application for the iPhone? (For those of you who haven’t seen the iBeer application yet it’s basically a virtual beer application that allows you to mimic the drinking of a beer.) Steve Sheraton is suing Molson Coors, the company that made the iPint app for $12.5 million in damages. Steve’s iBeer application was available in the iTunes App Store for $2.99 while Molson Coors iPint application was available for free. iPint basically did the same thing that the iBeer app did except it was free and it had a game in it too which Molson Coors purposely made so users could distinguish between their app and Steve Sheraton’s app. Molson Coors app was free so it ended up becoming more popular than Steve’s app. Steve is suing Molson Coors because he argues that iPint, which has been downloaded more than six million times, has “significantly impaired the downloading of the iBeer content”. Steve Sheraton’s company, Hottris recently sent a cease and desist letter to the makers of the iPint app. The iPint app is no longer available in the US App Store but it is still available in other countries. What does Molson Coors have to say about this? ”
“We are confident that we’ve handled this matter appropriately, and will vigorously defend the action.” – Molson Coors
via Telegraph
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…honestly
If it wasn’t copyright, Steve shouldn’t have a leg to stand on.
Wah, I’m steve and I lost money cus this other guy had a better product. I think that ibeer is better but wouldnt give the gum stuck on my shoe for it, not when theres a free one. Its fucking AMERICA!! what is GAP sued Steve/Barrys for sell shit cheaper, or one gas station sued the one acrossed the street because they sold gas for less which hurt their sales, wah he hurt me. ITS CAPITALISM SHIT HEADS…..grow up and be adults……………………what jack ass attorney would take that case, prob got paid up front. Tards
Wah, I’m steve and I lost money cus this other guy had a better product. I think that ibeer is better but wouldnt give the gum stuck on my shoe for it, not when theres a free one. Its fucking AMERICA!! what is GAP sued Steve/Barrys for sell shit cheaper, or one gas station sued the one acrossed the street because they sold gas for less which hurt their sales, wah he hurt me. ITS CAPITALISM SHIT HEADS…..grow up and be adults……………………what jack ass attorney would take that case, prob got paid up front. Tards
IDON’T THINK THE SUIT IS MAINTAINTABLE BECAUSE THE TWO APPLICATION IS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT
The grammar of the below respondents is horrifying. Can we sue them?
Horrifying by whose standards? ;) I’m suing them because their use of ALL CAPS sent me into seizures.
Back on topic, I agree with everyone here. How retarded of Steve. Maybe he’ll pave the way for the demise of free and / or open source software by being a whining baby.
Come on now if your going to lodge a complaint learn how to spell
If someone blatantly rips off your product and then undermines you with it, you’re in pretty good shape to sue their asses back to the stone age.
Does not look like iBeer was a really ingenious program and unless there were patent rights on it or code was stolen, I do not see how this can be successful. Also, it is rather obvious that only very few of those who have obtained iPint for free would also have purchased iBeer had iPint not been around, so damages were probably not large at all.
But I am sure that the lawyers pursuing the case are happy to do so regardless. Cheers!
the guy who created tetris should sue someone
i’ve download quickpwn 2.2 but can’t open/run it. windows show me a message : Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly(0×0000135).Click OK to terminate the application. Now what i do?
same prob
for the 135 error install .Net framework.
I ought to sue Steve because iPint is no longer available. Dickhead. Hey Steve, here’s an idea… make YOUR app free. iPint was much better, had more to it, was free and you pooper is chapped because your app was not as good and you charged for it – I guess you did the math and whined about it.
oh boo fucking hoo. Get over it. He made a better game, and its free, go cry.
ive heard ipint is available from the ireland itunes store. i live in usa. how do i get there?
plane dumbass.