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Guy Game Results in Lawsuits and Injunction
Several readers have written in to report on Tuesday's lawsuit regarding 'The Guy Game'. The PC/console offering, which strings a weak trivia game around footage of naked college age girls, has come under fire after the revelation that a woman featured prominently in the game was under the age of 18 at the time the footage was taken. The lawsuit names Sony (PS2), Microsoft (Xbox), Take-Two Interactive (Publisher), and Top Heavy Studios (Developer) as defendants. Commentary available on GamesIndustry.biz.
After Traci Lords....???
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I wonder what the church thinks of the game. Maybe if she wants to be such a model citizen, she should start out by not running around topless during spring break.
...yes, I'm certain this won't hurt sales at all. Kinda like Traci Lords "leaking" the fact that she was underage in order to get all her old movies pulled (and turned into hot collector's items) with the fringe benefit of making her last and only "adult age" porno flick sell like gangbusters.
What? So I'm a pervert. At least I'm open about it.
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So sue Sony because a playstation can play a game that features content that breaks the law.
... which arguably operates as a clearing-house when they choose to slap a rating on a game.
I'm surprised they were so short-sighted:
They should sue the maker of the digital camera used to take the picture of the girl.
If they used a scanner and a traditional camera, they should sue both the maker of the scanner and the camera. Double the dollars!
How about suing the DVD Consortium because they produced the scandard by which the disc used to distribute the content contained the illegal picture.
Too much? More realistic:
Jail all of the end-users because they now possess child-pornography.
Sue the ESRB
One can argue that because MS, Sony et. al. have put controls on their console allowing them to essentially declare what can and cannot run on it (without a mod-chip of course), that they "sanctioned" rather than just simply "allowed" this to take place...
Of course, we can expect that Sony, MS et. al. will probably be far more conservative in deciding what is or isn't allowed to operate on their systems from here on out. I may not agree with the content of the game, but it'll shame when all of the software is dumbed down so as not to offend even the most conservative among us.
But the cynic in me has to ask the question...if this succeeds: What happens when a slick lawyer is able to confuse a judge and a jury into drawing the conclusion that the OS/product not only "is" a clearing-house, but legally "must operate as" a clearing-house for the applications running on it. Do they sue all of the Linux programmers when Linux fails to block something illegal or offensive?
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"This thread is worthless without pics..." Whoops... wrong forum...
But seriously, the game description of half naked spring breakers that reward you by showing you their boobs for answering trivia questions reminds me of those tetris clones (porntris?) where the filled rows became part of a hardocore image.
No thank you. If I want to see "Girls Gone Wild", I'll just check out the latest video and save myself the trouble.
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So she's old enough to be in college, she's happy to run around topless while at college, and she's smart enough to sue - but unable to give (or, indeed, not give) her consent to appear in the game.
Hurrah! for the law.
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Curious - if she was allowed to go to Spring Break in the first place, and flash her breasts around to anyone and everyone, what makes you think her incapable of making an informed (or ill-formed) decision?
I was pictured topless in the game here:/ 919657_20040901_thumb008.jpg
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2004/reviews
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Maybe someone should charge her parents with contributing to the corruption of a minor by allowing her to go there unsupervised.
If the location the videos/photos were taken was public property, can't they legally photograph anyone they please?
I know with personal security cameras you can't have their view extend onto another persons private property, but if it gets the street in front of your house then that's ok. Say there was a naked 17 year old girl standing there in the street... I'd say it's obvious that the person who owns the camera (and thus took the picture) wouldn't be in trouble, but someone who took that tape and tried to sell it would be.
Is that right or do I have a no clue on the actual laws?
I wish people would get over it. They're boobs. That's all. Just a couple blobs of fat and skin.
Everyone else has already made the comment, if she was only 17 why was she there? Wouldn't it be nice if she was drunk in the game? Because God knows how much harm comes to girls that show nipples versus girls who drink too much.
Actually, you're mistaken. Our laws are less consistent. In my home state, Pennsylvania, it would be legal for me (as an 18 year old) to have sex with a 16 year old girl, but not to photograph her. In the state where I go to school, New York, it's illegal for me to have sex with an 18 year old. In some places it's legal to look at pornography at 18, in others not until you're 21. Everything varies from state to state.
Anyone have a link to the screenshots?!? This reply was computer generated and no humans were involved in processing this request Of course I'm joking, kind of.....
In Sweden it's 15 for sex, 18 for sex-related pictures (not just nude, it gotta be that "this isn't just a nude young person, but a nude young person which is having dirty thoughts"-kind of a thing).
In some uneducated countries it's legal to have sex with even younger girls, as long as you're married with her... Guess what country it is I'm thinking about...?
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Age of consent for girls is 13 in Japan. They can't get married till 16 though.
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"Didn't say anything about japan; all I was saying was that in some areas of some countries *cough*the us*cough* the girls, law-wise, might be way too young to have sex... but they are allowed to get married, and have sex with their husband/wife... =/
http://www.ageofconsent.com/ageofconsent.htm
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Still, you do seem to be calling the Japanese uneducated, since presumably having sex inside wedlock is better than outside; unless you are anti-marriage for some reason.
p.s. Didn't know about *cough*the us*cough* girls having sex with their wives- how very liberal :-)
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"The only person who should get in trouble is the girl! She's the one who did it, was probably drinking (underage as well), and probably thought no one would ever see it. Now Joe-Blow at her High School pirated the game from the, enter-net, and saw her and recognized her from his Bioligy class. Then he proceeds to tell people, and she proceeds to take the defensive and say she's a good christian girl who has real morals and is underage and doesn't want this to ruin her future. Family sues game company, game consoles, people who filmed it, etc. Now, let me get this straight...You mean to tell me if I cut my arm off with a Craftsmen Saw, I can sue Craftsmen for cutting off my arm? Sweeeeeeeet! Lets all go out and make bad decisions, and then get defensive, and sue everyone!
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Inconsistency in consent law is not just limited to the U.S. states, or even to New Zealand. Many legislative areas, such as the state of Queensland in my own Australia discriminatorily have different ages of consent for heterosexual, male-male homosexual and female-female homosexual intercourse - worldwide, it is generally male-male interaction which is singled out for a higher age. This bothers the hell out of me, because it seems to be making a sweeping judgement on common sense / morality based on sexual identity - if anything, at least male-male contact is less likely to result in unwanted children, which I am told is one of the stated targets of such laws.
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Well, it's a Thursday before Christmas Shutdown, nobody is here except us few poor souls with no vacation time left, and I happened upon this post on /.
SO - Because im bored, I decided to take a look at the website (pointed out in the website) that supposedly showcases this teenage girl along with her real name. Any speculation on which one she is? I think the blond, second from the left, is a good candidate.
Maybe this should be a poll for the week? =)
http://www.theguygame.com/index-enter.htm
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The State of P2P: Analysis Shows "Guy Game" Is Half of All Traffic
Well here's the Guy Game website,
and here's the Gamespot pics,
and here's PS2 pics,
and here's XBOX pics,
and here's XBOX videos,
and here's PS2 videos.
Can anyone figure out who's the girl in question? Or I guess we can just download it all, and then see what pics and vids mysteriously vanish from the websites in the next day or two. heh.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
No problem, G.W. will finish plowing over states rights so that he can shove his neo-con agenda down our throats soon enough. Then we'll all have the same federal laws.
-Diomedes
As for Diomedes, you could not say whether he was more among the Achaeans or the Trojans.
Something like this happen to girls gone wild, There was a girl flashing the camera that was underage and sued. The case was won by GGW because the girl was doing it in public of her own free will. So if this game is done the same way using girls from the public then it should not be an issue for them.
Also someone else said they are just boobs...
There's simply no way this girl got up there without a very convincing fake ID. None. They have a whole crew of people dedicated to verifying ID's and signing waivers in these kinds of productions. She falsified her age because she was hammered, no doubt about it.
So now the question is, does the crew have a scanned copy of her license(most likely) and what does this do for their defense in regards to contractual law and their responsiblity to obey criminal law? Too bad we'll never really know the outcome as it is likely the case will be dropped or moved to an out of court settlement once both sides show their cards.
Re: American society being f'd up
So many older Americans act so naive about teenage kids. Kids getting out of high school already have been there and done that with most sexual feats I haven't even attempted. Why do you think STD's are running rampant amongst young people right now? Half are country is living in the dark, refusing to face the fact that sexual promiscuity is no longer a dirty little secret amonst teenagers. Then there daughter goes topless and suddenly we gotta sue. It wasn't her that was embarassed, it was her parents. Too top it all off, there's guarunteed to be plenty worse she has done. She was free of parental control, no doubt drinking, with friends, on spring break where people screwing around is the main focus. She prolly had sex with 2 or 3 different dudes, contracted HPV and a nasty case of syphallis as she's on birth control and is too drunk and dumb to realize she still needs to use a condom. Yeah, she'll be going to church alright. You think girls wanting to get attention from guys flashing aren't going to do other desperate things for attention from guys? Get a grip people! She's 17... immature, but not brain dead.