Worlds.com CEO Thom Kidrin is sending out a strong message to the entire MMO and MMO related software scene. If you read the whole article at The Business Insider you will see that basically he's saying the following: 'We are going after our first victim and if we get it, we are coming for all of you'.

Worlds.com claims to own a patent, dated from the mid-nineties, that describes about any 3D MMO known to date. The origin from the patent is a Steven Spielberg backed project for seriously ill children called Starbright World. This was a virtual wonderland for sick kids.

The patent doesn't really describe an MMO but it does contain the structural basics that enable thousands of users to be online simultaneously in a 3D virtual space.

Currently Worlds.com has already started a case against NCSoft, known from MMO's like City of Heroes and Guild Wars and if they win that case they are coming after the big ones. Kidrin confirmed that he 'absolutely' is planning follow-up cases against products like World of Warcraft and Second Life.

I wonder how many sick kids will die when they decide to take World of Warcraft offline.

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