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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1110159" data-attributes="member: 177">Hm.  Two threads.  To which does one go to post one's $0.02...?We out here in the public don't have sufficient information about the movie to know if the suit is frivolous.  Making judgements now, based on so little data is.. well, it's dumb.  If and when you have to go into court, would you prefer the judge and jury make up their minds based upon a press release or two, or would you prefer them to work on the actual evidence?As for why now?  I'd think that's pretty simple...1)The legal proces takes time, as others have said.  WW must first learn the content of the movie to make their list of 60 items.  Then there are multiple hopps they have to jump through, as others have said.  This all takes time.2)Advertising.  If you start the legal stuff to early on, people will forget it by the time the movie actually opens.  I'd expect the advertising angle is considerable.  From Sony's side, the extra press will tend to bring gamers to the movie to find out what all the hubbub was about. From WW's side, it will tend to increase awareness among the audience that there is a game in which one can play through such stories - not a bad way to sell off the old stock before having the Apocalypse, hm?  And that's before we consider if there's actual infringement on IP.</blockquote>