Microsoft’s Gates Subpoenaed in RROD Suit

November 30, 2009

The latest “celebrity” to be subpoenaed by Erik Estavillo? None other than Microsoft Chief Bill Gates.

Estavillo sent us a copy of the subpoena, dated November 30 and filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The subpoena is related to a lawsuit filed by Estavillo earlier this month, in which he targeted Microsoft over the “red ring of death” affecting his Xbox 360.

The subpoena instructs Gates 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.” Estavillo is also seeking statistical data showing the true number of Xbox 360s that experienced the RROD (or other break-downs) and data on the actual number of people banned from Xbox Live for “piracy” over the period of 11/28/2008 through 11/28/2009.

GP queried Estavillo on what might be the basis of his next lawsuit. He responded that he doesn’t plan to sue anymore companies, and that we could “quote him on that.”

For his most recent lawsuit against World of Warcraft maker Activision Blizzard, Estavillo subpoenaed actress Winona Ryder and Depeche Mode member Martin Lee Gore.

 

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I doubt anything will come of this.

thoughts?

 

Is he complaining about he banning due to piracy!?

If yes, then he sucks balls.

But yeah, wouldn't mind seeing some accurate data on the RROD situation.

I'd love it if he actually got the numbers on the RROD debacle, I bet it's far worse than most expect.

there is state size demand on california if i recall correctly.

I would like to see the true RROD data myself. I think the data could be really high.

Before I read the thread title correctly I had a mental image of someone dressed as the RROD. I don't know why.

Not everyone who was banned was a pirate. Just because you have the mod chip didn't automatically make you a pirate. I believe a small number used it for homebrew stuff. Probably only a small minority though.

OT: I think everyone would like to see the data for the RRoD, if only to finally settle on a percentage failure rate rather than all these stupid and pointless online research polls.

This guy is an Ass Hat for filing all these law suits, and something tells me if he found out I called him an Ass Hat he would try to sue me, however I would like to know what the RROD percentage is at.

If the RROD is higher than thought could this hurt MS?

Seriously, MS offers a 3 year warranty (unheard of!), will ship you a box w/ materials and allow you to ship the xbox out via UPS ground, fix your console and deliver it back within days (my longest wait was 8 days) all for FREE. I think that, as a company, MS has done more than enough to make ammends for such a thing. If anyone should be privvy to the actual failure rates or amt of consoles fixed, it should be stockholders and not dimwits like this tool.