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'Hot Coffee' Scandal Officially Resolved
kukyfrope writes "Take-Two Interactive today announced that the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) inquiry concerning hidden sexual content in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has formally closed. All outstanding matters pending before the FTC have been settled and no penalties or fines have been assessed. Although Take-Two was not fined, the company will be subject to civil penalties of $11,000 for future violations. 'We look forward to putting this behind us and focusing on what we do best - creating videogames,' said Take-Two President and Chief Executive Officer Paul Eibeler."
The parents didn't file a lawsuit. The FTC did. They're the folks that prosecute companies that say one thing in their advertising and then do something else. Blaming parents for believing what Hot Coffee put on the label seems somewhat unfair to me. I bet that you would complain if the folks at Mars replaced the peanuts in your Snickers bar with dried cockroach larvae without changing the label.
Long story short, people tend to complain when what the purchase doesn't match what the manufacturer put on the label.
Okay let's see, sales taxes on the video game, taxes on your DSL lines and phone lines, cable taxes, court costs, legal fees, publicity, senators wasting their time in office which we are paying them to come up with legislation for the good of our country, the ESRB another fat bureaucracy. And then all to come to what conclusion boys and girls?! OH no penalty, and a restating of a law. I may have read it wrong but it sounds as though absolutley nothing came of this but a bunch of wasted tax money. So now we can all thank the Government for keeping us safe! Thanks Your Royal Highness Clinton
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