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FTC and Rockstar Settle Hot Coffee Dispute

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the angryness dept.

kukyfrope writes "The FTC and Rockstar/Take-Two have reached a settlement surrounding the 'Hot Coffee' mod for GTA: San Andreas that will serve to prevent future incidents. The FTC has stated that Rockstar and Take-Two must disclose all content to the ESRB when rating games, or face an $11,000 fine per violation if undisclosed content is discovered. 'Parents have the right to rely on the accuracy of the entertainment rating system. We allege that Take-Two and Rockstar's actions undermined the industry's own rating system and deceived consumers,' commented Lydia Parnes, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection."

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  1. Re:Whatever happened to caveat emptor? by Tiro · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Candy that nominally does not contain peanuts often is "contaminated" by nearby candy producing lines.
    I'm tired of all these peanut pansies who can't eat touch anything that's been in the same room as a few molecules of peanut dust.

    If you're one of these peanut pussies, you're probably smoking Marlboro Lights, and herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain.

  2. Re:$11,000 per item??? by Basehart · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Depends what you mean by "free".

    If nobody else gave a fuck about the word fuck you could shout it out at the top of your voice in your local Baskin Robbins on a Saturday morning and people would clap, but the fact is there are lots of folks out there who think "swear" words are evil for some reason, and unfortunately for us sinners most of them are very powerful, with friends in very very high places.

    Needless to say I think that's total bullshit, but there again I don't go to church and pray to God so I don't know what it's like to have my sense of reality fatally flawed.