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LA Attorney Sues Rockstar Over Hot Coffee

Posted by Zonk on from the you-knew-it-was-coming dept.

Next Generation reports that the L.A. city attorney has filed suit against Rockstar, for a misleading ad campaign and 'unfair competition'. The suit was prompted because of the much publicized 'Hot Cofee' mod discovered last year. From the article: "'Businesses have an obligation to truthfully disclose the content of their products - whether in the food we eat or the entertainment we consume,' Delgadillo said. The lawsuit is actually part of a wider effort to investigate the marketing of videogames."

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  1. No entertainment, by law by hesiod · · Score: 4, Informative

    > Delgadillo [...] has requested that the companies fully disclose the content of their games.

    Doesn't that sound strangely like "There may be no surprises in any game, we must know exactly what's going to happen before it happens?"

  2. LA is run by idiots by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 2, Informative
    This Rocky Delgadillo is the same guy that helped ban lap dances in Los Angeles County because city bureaucrats know best what two consenting adults should do on private property. A bigger bunch of complete tools you'd be hard pressed to find. They are proof that Democrats can be morals imposing dickheads just as much as anyone.

    Delgadillo also opposes the police enforcing immigration law because he's bought and sold by local business interests who want the cheap labor.

  3. TFA just left me confused... by PsychosisC · · Score: 3, Informative

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_coffee

    The Hot Coffee mod is a mod created for the personal computer port of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA:SA, 2004/2005, Rockstar North). When installed, it unlocks a hidden part of the game which involves having sex (featuring oral sex with an "invisible" penis and dry humping) with the main character's girlfriend to try to improve the relationship between the two.

  4. Re:Um no... by snwcrash · · Score: 2, Informative

    Can you really sue a company for defrauding another company, neither of which you represent? Seems that you have a lack of standing not being a direct victim of fraud. Arguing that the M->Ao rating change somehow caused you some injury probably isn't a legal slam dunk I would imagine.

    Not to mention that this was not an easter egg or something like that, but something that required non-standard tools to exploit a disabled block of code if I understand it correctly.

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