The DUMBEST Lawsuit In Video Game History

hello absolute legends, high scores are serious business and no one takes them more seriously than billy mitchell,

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player of the century, multiple time donkey kong world champion, winner of the first perfect pac-man and if you publicly deny any of these praises, he will. Suing Mitchell is fascinated by trying to use the legal system to silence those who doubt his claims, which, I might add, are relentless. The man can't say two words without mentioning his supposed Pacman and Donkey Kong triumphs. He obviously cares deeply about gaining praise and admiration from others so much that this obsessive need seems to be bringing about his downfall.

He is so wedded to the idea that he is God's gift to arcade

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s that he will threaten legal action against anyone who makes a reasonable claim that his conquests were mostly made up. And entrenched in lies and deception, Mitchell attacks all who oppose him and I am his latest victim. it seems mitchell didn't appreciate his cameo in my previous

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which focused mainly on guinness world records ireland bastard guinness for his shady practices and his reestablishment of records of a proven cheater aka billy mitchell mitchell was upset by this and thought that It was a good idea to start a defamation claim against me.

He contacted several attorneys in my state and finally found one gullible enough to send a notice demanding that I take down the video, apologize, and pay him $150,000. You heard correctly. He demands 150,000 because I briefly mentioned it in a video two weeks ago. As ridiculous as this

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is, this video isn't even about that. What I want to cover is his 1 million

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against twin galaxies for the crime of claiming that two of the records they had in his database were not achieved on the original arcade hardware. Before we get to that, though, I want to address the notice Mitchell sent me recently. to let you know how scandalous it really is this is a notice of concerns this is the first step of the defamation process as outlined in the Queensland defamation law 2005.

Before you can take someone to court you must let them know and provide him with a chance to make amends This notice describes Mitchell's story, which is the same self-indulgent story he tells at every opportunity. I won't tell it again here. The important part is the next section that describes the defamatory statements and what they mean now. I have seen many videos and statements starring Billy Mitchell and from all my experience I truly believe that Mitchell is a compulsive liar, he lies constantly and everywhere, even in things that don't seem to provide any advantage, we will get into a lot of things. these lies later in the video, but even this concern notice is no different, starts off good, identifies the video I posted called Guinness World Record, should be kept out of games, correctly points out that I said Guinness World Records was a scam and He had made a terrible decision by resetting the world records of a proven cheater.

He accurately describes identifying Billy Mitchell as said Cheeto and says he planned to make a future video, but this is where the lies start to creep in as they always do, he claims. That I said the Guinness decision was a slap in the face to all video game players, this is demonstrably false, as what I said was the Guinness decision to reset Mitchell's records is a slap in the face to every gaming community that works hard to keep records. , then it is false. he claims I said Guinness had falsified his records again, at no point did I say this and the video is there for people to review, that doesn't even make sense since Billy is the one who falsified the Guinness records he just prints them. made any statement alluding to Guinness believing the records were false or simply insinuated that their decisions were based on money and that they should trust the experts and continues to lie again saying that I said Mitchell had paid Guinness enough, which I What really I said was it because they fear a lawsuit from Mitchell or because they were paid enough.

It's obvious that all they care about is the end result. I don't know what dealings Mitchell had with Guinness which is why I posted two hypothetical reasons for his decision It's very telling when one party rudely quotes another when the statements are there and available to verify, the notice becomes even more ridiculous even though it makes the claim that the video imputes that Mitchell is a proven cheater, which is correct and can be demonstrable. is shown, but also claims that the video suggests Mitchell is a criminal. I have no idea where this came from and would love to see this explained.

Lying about a record does not make you a criminal nor does trying to get Guinness to publish your record as this matter has nothing to do with criminality in any way and was never suggested to be. He claims that the video alleged that Mitchell bribed Guinness to restore his records, but there are two problems with this based on my previous point. This was never said, only hinted at as the possible reason, but even if I said definitively that Mitchell paid Guinness, this is not a bribe and the entire video highlighted the fact that Guinness charges exorbitant amounts of money to verify records if the idiots want. paying a high fee to have Guinness verify your achievement that's not a bribe it's just paying too much for free service here is Mitchell's list of demands to avoid a lawsuit 1. the removal of the youtube post that was posted on or around July 25 2 your written commitment to never repeat any of the allegations contained in the video about our client 3. a written apology to our client four payments of our clients' costs which we estimate to be in the order of fifteen hundred dollars five compensation payments damages in the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars needless to say these alleged damages are absurd and highlight how deluded mitchell really is, i must admit that although this threat is crazy and although i have multiple defenses available to combat any legal claim action receiving this notice was not pleasant after starting a new family I have more to worry about than myself, but unfortunately for mitchell I am a man of principle who will never be forced to back down from an action that I believe is right.

I am extremely lucky because I have a large army of support behind me. I can't imagine how terrifying that would be for the less fortunate, although that's one of the reasons Mitchell has to be stopped and it all depends on the demand we're about to fill. Before I continue, I have to briefly thank the sponsors of this video, Ridge Wallets. Now I really appreciate Ridge for supporting me through all the craziness that's been going on this year. Sponsors really keep this channel alive. Ridge make amazing wallets. compact, aerodynamic and feels great. I've always hated those huge traditional wallets and the only thing I carry with me when I leave the house is my license and a credit card, so anything else is overkill.

The material is actually very strong and backed. for a lifetime warranty Ridge is so confident in their product that they offer a 45-day money back guarantee and you can get 10 percent off one of these bad boys today by visiting ridge.com legend or clicking the link in description william james mitchell vs twin galaxies llc a 1 million lawsuit over video game high scores what a wonderful world we live in, we will focus on this lawsuit in particular as it has actually been served and answered by twin galaxies, but It's not the only action Mitchell has taken. he also has a 1 million lawsuit filed against youtuber apollo legend a 1 million lawsuit against the owner of the donkey kong forums and also against jeremy young who was the first person who originally started the threat of dispute in the twin galaxies mitchell He also has a 10 million lawsuit against twin galaxies in a different state that has not yet been served.

I know almost all of you will know the backstory, but in case you don't, I'll explain very, very quickly. Billy Mitchell is a well-known arcade player who supposedly set a high score. world records in the arcade game Donkey Kong, these records appeared on the twin galaxy scoreboard, who was the largest score keeping organization. Both Mitchell and the Twin Galaxies were featured heavily in the documentary The King of Kong, if you haven't seen this documentary. I recommend you do it, although there are many historical inaccuracies and it leaves out a lot about what really happened. It's a really entertaining story that definitely captures honestly many of the personalities surrounding the case.

The contrast between the two lead actors, Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell, is striking and makes for fantastic storytelling In 2018, the Twin Galaxies deleted all records of Billy Mitchell, including those unrelated to Donkey Kong, after an extensive investigation concluded that his two scores of one million forty-seven thousand two hundred one million fifty thousand two hundred were not made on an original, unmodified Donkey Kong arcade PCB, the PCB is the circuit board that houses the game itself and that outputs to the arcade monitor . The first thing we must clarify is what the lawsuit is really for, since many people make mistakes. by not suing Twin Galaxies for removing your high scores you would have no legal basis to do so as Twin Galaxies is a private organization and can host any high scores it chooses, can ban whoever it wants and does not require any justification to do so .

The lawsuit is specifically against statements Twin Galaxies made, highlighting that their scores were not performed in an original Donkey Kong arcade. Mitchell claims that this statement is false and that Twin Galaxies is aware of its falsehood and is lying or at least intentionally suppressing the truth. The logic coming from the Mitchell camp is this: we have evidence that the evidence shows that Mitchell legitimately achieved the scores from him. The twin galaxies will not accept this evidence, therefore the twin galaxies are suppressing the truth and are knowingly making statements with reckless disregard for its falsehood. The problem is that the evidence Mitchell provides is for all intents and purposes meaningless and does not address the real issues at hand.

It's not like I don't provide any evidence; in fact, the evidence Mitchell provides amounts to a 214-page document. There's a lot to unravel, but it's almost completely irrelevant to Twin Galaxy's reasoning behind their decision. The decision to ban Mitchell was based on video recordings of the alleged performances, recordings that can be analyzed and studied as many times as desired. The vast majority of the evidence. In support of the supposed high scores are eyewitness testimonies, however, eyewitness testimonies do not carry any weight for several reasons. The first reason is simple. People can lie. Therefore, hard data is always a better means of demonstrating legitimacy, but even in a hypothetical world where everyone always told the truth, eyewitness testimonies would still be meaningless.

The reality is that many forms of cheating simply cannot be detected with the human eye, much less with first glance. This is obvious when it comes to something like doping in sports. 1988 million people watched as Ben Johnson won gold and set a new world record in the 100 meters final at the Seoul Olympics. If you had asked each of those witnesses, they would all have sworn that he had indeed won the race and they would not have done so. I haven't been lying, but that doesn't mean he didn't cheat Two days later, his gold medal was stripped and his world record time was disqualified after a blood sample came back positive for steroids if Johnson collected millions of affidavits . claiming that he had won the race, which does not help his case or address the issue at hand.

Human eyes cannot detect doping; can only be determined through post-hoc analysis, using specific technology to study the data in ways the human body cannot when it comes to sprinting, there have been countless examples of cheating being exposed years later, but only through An advanced analysis, for example, in Super Mario 64, several players who joined races were discovered after the audio in their video was studied in boldness and audio evidence. editing software the audio discrepancies were so small that it is literally impossible for the human ear to detect the splices; However, they become obvious when technology is used;

In Mitchell's case, it was video analysis that was the basis for the conclusion that his records were not legitimate, the way each level was loaded did not reflect a real arcade unit and perfectly represented whatwould appear if one were using the emulation, of course the levels load so fast that you can't tell the difference when looking at the performance, it's only when going frame by frame that the smoking gun becomes evident, even if all of Mitchell's witnesses were completely truthful, which I personally don't think is the case, has no bearing on the evidence against them, they couldn't tell the difference no matter how scrupulously they looked at their high score when it happened.

The current owner of Twin Galaxy's Jace Hall is well aware of this fact and that is why he was not interested in hearing witness testimonies. There are numerous occasions in Mitchell's lawsuit where he points out that Hull didn't want to. to accept eyewitness accounts, Mitchell tries to present this as an intentional suppression of facts, but when you have the actual video, the witnesses are no longer useful in giving you an idea of ​​how ignorant Mitchell is about this basic logic. I will read part of his legal argument. to his claim that Mitchell misled Twin Galaxies at trial he will have to challenge each and every witness who swore they saw Mitchell make the scores.

To date, Twin Galaxies have shown no indication that this is the case. will be able to do so, in fact, Twin Galaxies has not contacted any of the witnesses and its motion does not attempt to discredit the testimony of those witnesses, so Twin Galaxy's case is essentially based on a conspiracy almost as vast and unsustainable like Kennedy's assassination of dozens of people around the world. seemingly unconnected countries have agreed to lie and fabricate evidence that mitchell made his records in arcade software the claim of cheating is ridiculous in mitchell's universe no one can be fooled people can spot any and all forms of cheating without the use of technology or without the need for further analysis, they can do this simply by being nearby and they do not even need to be experts in the game in question, the surprising thing is that their score of one million forty-seven thousand two hundred the La score presented in King of Kong, the score that earned him the Guinness World Record for the first million points, he has no witnesses, not a single one, when you remove the human element in his case, what you are left with are conspiracy theories and techniques misleading. explanations that are lies or ignorant to the point of hilarity mitchell attempts to argue against the video evidence in two ways: the first is by claiming that the videos are not his actual performance and the second is by claiming that the video performances are not a emulation, but in fact, are produced by an original Donkey Kong board in order to appreciate the absurdity of the claim that the videos are not actually of Billy Mitchell.

We have to understand how we know that they are actually his tapes. Mitchell confirms that he provided. tapes of his sheet music to Twin Galaxies, this is stated in Exhibit 20 of his lawsuit, interestingly, although when his lawyer first contacted Twin Galaxies to request that they retract their statements, he provided a package of evidence which expressly indicated that he never submitted videotapes of his scores, but that he finally had to do so. abandon that argument when the evidence started to pile up, there were even posters that Twin Galaxies made at the time promoting their world record saying it was verified via videotape Walter Day, the previous owner of Twin Galaxies sent copies of the presentation from Mitchell gave his $1,47,000 score to several referees for examination when the score was finally challenged.

Twin Galaxies contacted several former referees to ask for four copies of the performance. One copy came from Dwayne Richards, who has spoken publicly against Mitchell. Mitchell claims that Richards must have edited the videotape in To frame him, he actually wants you to believe that Dwayne Richards perfectly edited the transition screen for each level to make it look like it was done in mayhem. This ends up being a pretty funny statement, though even when you don't consider how ridiculous it is. The technical feat would have been that Dwayne Richards was not the only source of the recorded performance that the Twin Galaxies got.

He also got a copy of Richie Knuckles, who was actually one of Mitchell's friends. He sent the footage to Jace so he could clear Mitchell's name believing him to be innocent and knowing that he actually had a copy of the original submission, needless to say both copies from the two different sources matched perfectly, but not only did they match each other yes, but they also matched other images. In the King of Kong documentary, Billy's music was played on a TV in a fun location, the game footage shown is exactly the same as the two original copies, however, Billy's lawsuit claims that because The footage shown in the documentary did not show any transition screen, you can not confirm that they were not edited later, fortunately we have more footage this time from 2006 before King of Kong was released in an interview with MTV, the main arbiter of the Twin Galaxies At that time, Robert Mercek played footage from a performance copy that Billy had sent him.

Not only does this footage match all the copies obtained for research and the footage shown in The King of Kong but it also shows a transition screen. which matches perfectly what you would see if you were using the emulation, but Billy Mitchell still claims that the images on the tape are not him, this is Bill Mitchell, the best Donkey Kong player in the world with one million forty-four thousand one hundred and is on screen 116 and your score will now be one million 47,200 when the bonus is added and at this point you will see the kill screen in Donkey Kong.

The game has an absolute completion level of 22-1. Notice that the timers go back to 4,000 points, it started at 4,000 and Mario, who is here, is going to die at any second the timer only went down 300 points, that is the death screen, the most you can do in this game is get from here to that staircase before dying, no one can pass this point, so not only has billy arrived. Up to this point, he did it in his third life, so he could have earned some extra points by intentionally killing himself earlier and gotten some extra points on the other board.

Here's the initial phase, but he didn't choose to do it and he still has the world record of one million 47. and there's his ever-present US login and there you have it, the world record in Donkey Kong right before your eyes Okay, so Billy wants you to believe that the images everyone sees are Not Him, but he also wants you to know that even if it was him, they are still legitimate images that could have come from an original Donkey Kong PCB. Mitchell and numerous technical experts spent a great deal of time researching ways a standard arcade board could produce the images. seen on the tape he unfortunately was unable to do so and has not yet provided any technical explanation on how to produce the same transition screen images that were present in his performances.

The important thing to understand is that it was never the goal of Twin Galaxies to determine precisely what method Mitchell used to create these tapes, the only relevant question is whether what we can see can be replicated using an original Donkey Kong board and the answer is no. . Mitchell cannot explain how these images happened the way they appeared. he did, but he tries to debunk a couple of problems that were fixed during the investigation, one of them being so-called beam finger. This is a small part of the beam that was not drawn completely during the transition screen in the emulator. does not appear during transition screens in a real arcade, as they are rendered completely differently.

However, something fundamental to keep in mind is that this beam finger is not the problem with Billy's tapes, the problem is that the entire transition screen, everything is rendered in a different way, ignoring everything else and focusing only In this beam finger, a small portion of a single frame of footage is not relevant in any case, during investigation it was discovered that this beam finger did not appear in the transition screens using the mutilation versions that were available in 2004. Note that everything else matched the videotapes and was still different from the arcade, but Mitchell's team jumped on this discrepancy and claimed it exonerated him.

However, it was quickly realized that Donkey Finger alone cannot be drawn using the emulator's default settings if the refresh rate is changed from 60 Hertz to 60.6 Hertz, which is the actual refresh rate of Donkey. kong, the finger appears in the official dispute thread where copeland, one of the best donkey kong players of all time, indicated by enabling cheats and setting the update speed to 60.6 frames per second the speed of the arcade machine instead of the default 60 fps of mayhem the beam tail is drawn every time according to mitchell copeland is lying about donkey kong's refresh rate and is using an arbitrary setting to try to force the beam toe to appear This is a claim Pretty damning, but it seems to conflict with all the evidence available in the arcade gaming world.

It's pretty well known that Donkey Kong actually runs at 60.6 hertz. There are numerous forum posts, many of them years before this whole debacle, claiming that the game runs on 60.6, for example a post from 2009 says since I updated to mutilate version 132. I've noticed a lot of solid launchers in games who had never had them before. Donkey Kong and Star Wars are definite defenders. Rebel scum. You answered one of two. The problems could be your cause: you are running at 60 hertz and the game ran faster and after 0.106 the mutilation sound was more affected by the screen refresh rate, both Donkey Kong and Star Wars ran at 60 .6 hertz in 2013, a forum user posted a topic.

Titled success with mame and custom tear-free refresh rates, they said I just wanted to write about my maim setup that works without screen tearing and hopefully minimal lag for some games. In the post, he describes the games he uses and their refresh rates. Donkey Kong is listed. Like 60.6 hertz, it's almost universally known among retro gamers that running a game at a different frame rate than intended can cause problems. So when using emulation it is often necessary to know the exact technical specifications of the game to run it correctly, but let's not trust random arcade experts on the internet, the official 1981 manual that came with the machine gives us the exact schematics. of the PCB.

Now you may need to be an electrical engineer to understand what these images mean, but I have asked numerous experts who all confirmed that, as provided in the official documentation, we can calculate the refresh rate at 60.6 hertz, but again, let's not trust the experts and official documentation, we can literally measure the output of a Donkey Kong arcade board using an oscilloscope to get the exact speed. Refresh rate spoiler alert, it's actually 60.6 hertz. Billy Mitchell claims that the refresh rate is not 60.6 hertz but 60 hertz and his evidence of this is astonishing. He provides specifications for the monitor used in Donkey Kong arcade cabinets, the Sanyo Easy 20.

He does not understand the difference between the scan rate on a monitor and the vertical refresh rate created by the game itself. This is a pretty epic mistake to be included in a legal document. We already know that Mitchell has a team of technical experts working around the clock to find ways to justify the images of him, so I can't believe this is a simple mistake, I guess as with everything else, this is a hoax intentional. In his exhibits of evidence, he also included a frame from a video that appears to show a beam finger. The argument is that this frame demonstrates that beam finger can occur in an original arcade, but this frame is not from a transition screen, which is the problem with the Billy Tapes.

This frame is from the game loading screen before the game even starts if the tapes are Not from Mitchell, why is he trying so desperately to prove that the footage could have been produced in an original arcade? He has always said the tapes were not his, so why is he focusing on the footage? It doesn't make logical sense, Billy. he has even already admitted that the footage is mutilated and the fact is that everyone is watching the movie and everyone is wondering if it was arcade or maine, which is exactly what it is for those who may not know, it's okay, I've never done that.

I even played maim, I don't have the main file loaded in my house, but basically maim is an emulation of what's in the arcade, that's right, it's just not the arcade, so it'sa different platform, there are major world records, there are major Donkey Kong world records, okay? and Jeremy's footage of the film shows Mame Play. Now I maintain that if you get the original tape or the original shot of the room, you will see that what I say is true. I'm not arguing what he says. What I'm discussing is the fact that I want you to have the original tape.

Well, this video has been long enough now and honestly, we've covered most of what Mitchell's evidence has to offer, as I mentioned above, most of his arguments are based on unreliable witness testimony. and the technical aspects of his case are at best ignorant and at worst misleading and slanderous. He also complains a lot about people not liking him. This is an attempt to show malice and create doubt that any evidence they present is legitimate. What I have noticed about narcissists is that they always find excuses for why people don't like them, they will never claim that their actions are because people want them to not like them because they have already made a decision and nothing will change that, Mitchell. claims that the Twin Galaxies were not interested in being shown the truth and were always against Mitchell, but the reality is that the Twin Galaxies spent an enormous amount of time and energy trying to help Mitchell validate the footage of him. .

They bought recording equipment. They did extensive testing on real hardware. and even extended the duration of the investigation because Mitchell requested it. It took over seven months for a verdict to be returned and the whole time everyone was waiting for Mitchell to present evidence showing why the images of him look the way they do, but the evidence I never came across as someone who was involved in the community of speed runners. I can tell you that our perception of the investigation was completely different than what Mitchell claims. Speedrunners were furious and shocked at how long this investigation lasted, given the fact that clear evidence had been presented.

Given the Todd Rogers and Billy Mitchell feuds, many people stated that Twin Galaxy owner Jace Hall was being intentionally distant and combative at the end of the day. I think this all came down to impatience. People wanted Billy Gorn as soon as the evidence came in. and they probably weren't wrong, but the twin galaxies wanted to give him time to fight back, it's just that he never did. I know the twin galaxies have a pretty complicated past, but we really need to support them now. Today's twin galaxies are not. The same as before. I've spoken to Jace Hall several times and he definitely seems like he cares about the games and wants to celebrate the highest levels of achievement, his removal of the old guard and players like Todd Rogers and Billy Mitchell just show that they really value integrity now, they really do.

It seems like a different place, and this is coming from someone who has made entire videos about how corrupt it was, but possibly more importantly, Twin Galaxies is fighting for every gaming community that values ​​being able to find and eliminate cheaters. If Twin Galaxies loses, it would be an incredibly damaging precedent to establish that Mitchell would continue to serve everyone. of his currently filed lawsuits and you better believe he would file more. Defeating Mitchell would benefit everyone and losing would be disastrous. Now is the time to unite. Thank you very much for watching his legends. I hope you're having a fantastic day and I'll see. you in the next video you