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Judge Clears Bully For Publishing
stupid_is writes "The BBC are reporting that Judge Ronald Friedman has cleared Bully for publication in Florida. Jack Thompson is, predictably, critical of the decision, stating "You did not see the game, you don't even know what it was you saw." after Take-Two gave him the game, along with someone to play the game for him to watch before he made a decision." This is a follow-up to our story last week about Take-Two handing over copies of Bully per court order.
Why would a judge be asked to condone prior restraint, and expected to do it???
"There's a lot of violence," Judge Friedman said. "A whole lot. Less than we see on television every night."
It's nice to see that a judge is actually comparing this to the other media that we're exposed to out here in the real world.
This guy's the limit!
Don't lawyers normally get into some sort of trouble for calling Judges incompetent twats who don't know how to do their job?
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I'm half-tempted to buy a bunch of them and give them out to 12-year-old kids just to piss off that obnoxious, self-righteous, arrogant, schmuck Thompson.
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''You did not see the game,'' Mr Thompson told the judge at Friday's hearing. "You don't even know what it was you saw."
Unless I missed something, Thompson hasn't seen the game since it's unreleased and is criticising the judge who did see it. Amazing.
I'm starting to think that this guy is a clever guerilla marketer who brings attention and boosted sales to his clients via the media and legal system. Just look how well 2 Live Crew sold records after a protracted legal battle waged by Jack Thompson.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Jack Thompson needs to settle down. We are getting tired of his constant law suits, which almost seem to be monthly at this point. When is he going to realize, we don't care and that people will buy the game off the net even if he got it baned from his state. Personally if i was the judge, after his remarks i would have thrown him in jail.
-Pizentios
if your kid is playing the game, then that's at least X minutes he or she isn't out actually bullying kids. How about taking some measures against actual bullies, instead of just going "boys will be boys" when Jerk Junior beats up yet another kid for lunch money, or kicks yet another puppy, or lights yet another cigarette at age 9? I'd be more concerned about the kid who shows up at 9 am on a school day to buy the game...
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Now you've got both feet stuck in your mouth. Let's see if you can fit anything else in there.
There is no -1 Disagree mod. Slashdot.org/faq defines mod options. USE IT.
Mr Thompson criticised the decision to have an employee take him through the game, arguing he could have avoided making violent choices.
If a game in which someone can make choices to make the game less violent and has defending other kids as a key game play element actually exists how is this a bad thing. Its Art/storytelling and a slap-dash of decent morality. Free will is important. Choices between good and evil in a game allow people to explore these choices without real world impact.
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Mr Thompson criticised the decision to have an employee take him through the game, arguing he could have avoided making violent choices.
So, he's arguing the game is a public nuisance because you can choose non-violent solutions?
That guy is really an insane jackass.
You can't take the sky from me...
I'm tired of hearing, "Ban this video game!" "Sue that company." "OMZFG HOT COFFEE?!?!" A video game is a video game. The ESRB does a fairly decent job in giving them good ratings. They have no control over what users can do to alter the game. It's just a simple fact of what the parents allow the children to play. If the children can understand it's just a video game, you can't auto-aim in real life, etc., then I really don't see what the problem is. Maybe I'm just giving common sense the benefit of the doubt, but I think these stories are absolutely ridiculous. Virtual Reality is meant for people to get away from their everyday lives. It's not even in the slightest meant to be a model for real life actions. I guess this topic just grinds my gears.
...you don't even know what you saw?
Thompson seems to be implying that the judge is some kind of idiot who was completely unable to interpret what he saw happening on the screen while someone else, knowledgeable in the game, was playing it for him.
Now, I've never seen the game. But based on what games I have seen/played, I can't imagine that anyone with an above-room-temperature IQ and a heartbeat would be unable to interpret what's happening on the screen. I mean, games these days have fairly realistic 3D graphics; it's like implying that one can't figure out what's going on on the screen because it's anime.
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"If you don't like it, don't play it". Keep this in mind and laugh the frivolous lawsuits out of the courtroom, please.
Where were you when the voynix came?
I'd love to see that headine in a gaming magazine.
We already know he's got his head up his ass, so with his feet stuck in his mouth, which is part of his head, which is up his ass..... damn, that's getting right convoluted!
I am sorry if I am wrong but wasn't this covered some 217 years ago........ "Madison's version of the speech and press clauses, introduced in the House of Representatives on June 8, 1789, provided: ''The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.''1 The special committee rewrote the language to some extent, adding other provisions from Madison's draft, to make it read: ''The freedom of speech and of the press, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble and consult for their common good, and to apply to the Government for redress of grievances, shall not be infringed.''2 In this form it went to the Senate, which rewrote it to read: ''That Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and consult for their common good, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.''3 Subsequently, the religion clauses and these clauses were combined by the Senate.4 The final language was agreed upon in conference." Or does this not apply to forums of speech that some people don't like.
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This Bully issue is interesting because it highlights the salient point so often missed by those who criticise violence in entertainment: context. To a thinking person, it is obvious that entertainment involving beating a schoolmate bloody with a bat is more disturbing than entertainment involving a bodybuilder blowing up aliens with a bazooka, despite the fact that - objectively at least - murder is worse than assault. The context being so much closer to home - a kid with a bat is much nearer to actual reality than a bodybuilder blowing up aliens - is where the disturbance factor comes in, and it's pretty much impossible to quantify closeness-to-home realism which makes it a challenge for the courts.
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Mr Thompson told Miami newspapers that he did not plan to continue his campaign against Bully.
After he gets his 15 minutes of national media to rant against violent video games, he's not going to continue his campaign against this "Columbine simulator" that will undoubtly increase school violence?
Seriously, now he's not only telling parents they no longer are responsible for parenting, but he's even going up against a judge saying he doesn't know how to do his job!
Someone need to slip dear ol' Jack a chillpill before his head explodes. On the other hand... If it does explode, we can continue blaming lawyers for all that's wrong in this world while having proof: The heads of lawyers are prone to spontanious explosion! Keep all children at a safe distance!
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You're taking it out of context. From the next sentence in the article, "Mr Thompson criticised the decision to have an employee take him through the game, arguing he could have avoided making violent choices."
In other words, since it was a pre-release version, and since the judge was only shown what the Take-Two employee decided to demonstrate for him, it's hard to tell what the judge actually saw. I can't even count how many games can be played in a much less violent way if so desired (like not using fatalites in Mortal Combat, or not doing head shots in TFC, etc). Entire areas of the map could also be avoided (like fighting inside of shcools).
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
will it be till we see a mod so that players can bully Jack Thompson, eh? :)
How about someone actually produces a Columbine Simulator? And trademarks the name, and then sues Thompson for trademark infringement?
It could prolly be a build on fy_office....
The game has already been reviewed by the ESRB which they have already taken extra measures to ensure a justified rating.
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You made the point that "Virtual Reality is meant for people to get away from their everyday lives. It's not even in the slightest meant to be a model for real life actions."
Virtual Reality is by definition a model for real life actions. Video games are meant for people to get away from their everyday lives. There are Virtual Reality simulators which are fully intened to teach people how to kill, most of them in use by the US goverment. Video games still strive for realism in some way. What makes them fun is where they deviate from reality, video games let you do things that you wouldn't be able to do in real life.
Yes - the grenades blow up and have realistic shrapnal due to the new physics processor.
No - that does not mean we are really being invaded by an alien lifeform.
Yes - you can see the new hat on your character when you equip it
No - putting a hat on does not suddenly give you the real ability to cast fireball
The best part will be when he realizes his mistake, and starts rightfully blaming the parents for not doing their god-damn job.
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Honestly?
You are all a bunch of idots.
Finally, judges being clueless about software played into our hands for once. He probably took those two disks home and put them in his toaster.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Despite the fervent wishes of certain unbalanced extremists, prior restraint in publishing is not recognized in US law, except in cases of national security, and only then when circumstances are extraordinary. Right to publish is automatic. Thus, the Judge did not "clear" anything for publishing, as judges do not have that right in this country.
A less misleading headline might be, "Judge Refuses to Block Publication of 'Bully'", or, "No Reason to Block Take-Two's 'Bully', says Judge", or,"Take-Two's 'Bully' No Threat to National Security".
Schwab
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This case involves Jack Thompson and a judge that thus far has demonstrated his ability to act fairly. Despite Jack's reputation himself as an annoyance, the Judge agreed to actually look at the game before making a decision. Then, upon seeing it, he drew parallels to existing societal norms. So far these are the actions of a rational man; and they're just what we know from a news article.
I know what happens when you assume, but in this case I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that if Judge Friedman felt he was being decieved, he would have stated so. If I may as well, I'll take the leap that if Jack felt Judge Friedman was being decieved, he would have no problems fufilling his obligation to the court to say so. In short, with lack of evidence to the contrary, and no history of foolish behavior in this case on the part of Judge Friedman -- I am going say that Judge Friedman did his job, and its judicial armchair quarterbacking on your part to think otherwise because a news article did not detail every step of the trial to your satisfaction.
~Rebecca (IANAL, but damn this is my second law related post today)
The glorius courts of the Motherland have done their work and examined the game in question and approved it for the new communist man. In response, the Central Committee has increased the vodka ration to two bottles a month in celebration of this great triumph! Once again the Motherland supports your right to freedom by ensuring that only the best books, magazines, movies and games are available to the mindless sheep tireless workers of the revolution.
I'm sad to say, you live in more of a dream world than he does. Heh. :) "Realizes his mistake", that's a good one. :)
''You did not see the game,'' Mr Thompson told the judge at Friday's hearing. "You don't even know what it was you saw." Mr Thompson criticised the decision to have an employee take him through the game, arguing he could have avoided making violent choices.
Isn't this a good thing? At least the player has a choice and not like tv/movies where you have to watch gore all the way through (unless you can make yourself to pick up the remote) . At the end of the day its parents responisbility to monitor what they buy their children and what their children do.
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Mr Thompson criticised the decision to have an employee take him through the game, arguing he could have avoided making violent choices.
I think this is the most telling of Mr Thompson's state of mind.
He may not have realized it, but he just defeated his entire standpoint against any videogame. What he says is completely true about games, and about life in general. Yes, kids *can* do violent things, but it's up to the individual to "avoid making violent choices" in video games and in life. It is the responsibility of the parents to teach their kids how to deal with frustrating situations, and to be the prime example.
Mr. Thompson is really setting a bad example to the very kids he's trying to protect. Avoiding "making violent choices" involves restraint. But him lashing out at everyone and everything, using his lawyer status as a tool to frighten others not as knowledgable in law to do what he wants done, is sending the opposite message.
Pretty good reading, if you'd like to get a better sense at just how crazy JT really is:
o n-verbally-attacks-judge-207578.php
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/jack-thompson/thomps
MK is a funny old game though. Try playing the original trilogy these days.. the violence is hillariously B-movie.. yet we had all that screaming over it.. but that's off topic.
If I was the guy sent to play the game I would ask the judge to tell me what to do. I'd be his hands in effect. That way the judge can see anything he likes and I just have to perform it. I see no other reason to pull this off and make the judge feel he saw everything he needed.
I like muppets.
Although the Slashdot conspiracy against you is most likely true as well...
That's going to be the name of my game.
The game will consist of a child racing to eat as many boxes of breakfast cereal as possible in an eating contest. I'll blame the name screw up on the folks in marketing.
It should prove to be entertaining watching the media feeding frenzy....
There's a big difference between Publishing and Distributing...
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Someone please give Mr. Thompson a Fudgesicle and a hug. Thank you.
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it's hard to tell what the judge actually saw.
I can tell you he saw infinity-1 more than Thompson saw.
You can't take the sky from me...
Let's just make a game called Pro hac Vice City so he'll be against that, too.
...the system works!
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"After the court session concluded, Jack Thompson told Ars Technica that the proceedings were a travesty. He characterized the judge's viewing of footage as nothing more than a couple of "Take Two operatives" showing the judge everything in the game they wanted him to see. "I may be full of crap about this game, and I may be wrong, and that's fine. But there's such a thing as due process," said Thompson. "And I was denied due process in court today."
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The judge compared it to TV, where yes there are bodybuilders with bazookas, but also kids being beaten, taking drugs, are killed (see CSI or many other crime shows), beaten, raped, and various other such things. For that matter, perhaps see: Real Life (tm).
However, TV has already set a bar for which the majority public has accepted. The judge is saying that this game does not exceed or is perhaps under that current level.
I would love to see what sorts of humorous nasty pictures and effigies of Jack Thompson litter the Take 2 and Rockstar offices/email servers.
Doesn't matter, Thopson is still a big fucking hypocrite for complaining that the judge didn't "see" the game when he was the one that complained vociferously for MONTHS about the game, threatened lawsuits loaded with lies and slander without having seen anything more than a marketing blurb and a handful of screenshots.
Fuck you, Thompson!
"I forgot my mantra."
How dare you, Judge, petulantly order the production of the game after it is released on Tuesday morning. I didn't even ask for that. You did that out of spite, and you were smiling when you did that. You really enjoyed that one, didn't you, Judge?
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lol!
How DARE you ask for the full, release game??? HOW DARE YOU!!!! OR ELSE!!!!!!!!
You can't take the sky from me...
If what you propose actually happened, then Take 2 committed fraud on the court. JT would then be able to take the game after it is released and do a demonstration for the judge with his own player, demonstrating all the stuff the original demonstrator avoided. At which point judge smacks Take 2 *hard*.
More likely JT goes back to court with a lot of hand waving and mumbling about fraud, etc. Repeat 15 minutes...
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
I care because I now see why so much news on Slashdot is so fsking old. They ask us, prompt us even, to send them news articles, then the stuff sits around for 2 days before making it's appearance.
If you don't care about how old news is, I can't make you.
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Please tell me that you don't really think that a judge of Friedman's calibre and experience is too stupid to know whether or not he's having the wool pulled over his eyes just because what's in front of him happens to be a video game.
The next thing you're going to tell me is that the ruling was prepared on drool-proof paper.
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Since when does a company need a judge's permission to publish anything? Seems like the game's name is incredibly ironic in this sense. Has ANYTHING else happened like this before? Has a judge cleared something controversial ahead of time? I honestly can't think of any legal process that explains this.
Has anyone noticed that every time Jack Thompson complains about something, whether it be video games or music CDs, those products do really, really well?? I mean, his attack on Grand Theft Auto seemed to keep it in the public eye forever. It wasn't until he started railing against Bully that GTA fell out of the public attention. Then there was "2 Live Crew" - their sucky lyrics made them a joke but then Jack Thompson made a public stink in the media and warning stickers were placed on the CDs and every teenaged boy in North America had to have a copy.
I'm convinced that Jack Thompson is a corporate shill for the various media companies. I mean, he's too harmless to do any damage to the products in question, he's too laughable to be taken seriously by anyone, and yet he can whip up public attention like nobody else. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if Rockstar starts/is funding Jack Thompson's campaigns.
In reality I don't care what this born-again Christian is spouting (apart from verbal crap) as he has no right to sit there and judge what is morally good for other people...
That's like the US telling the rest of the world what to do....Oh Wait....
Karem
When all is said and done, nothing changes...
"Mr Thompson criticised the decision to have an employee take him through the game, arguing he could have avoided making violent choices."
If true, this just goes to show that the game allows you the player to make moral choices. It allows you to choose a non violent path to certain situations.
After reading this fiasco for the past few months i'm actually wanting to buy the game. Prior to Thompson throwing a fit, i would have ignored the game on the shelf.
It's the same with all those anti pop culture types. Whatever they decide to rail against ends up being the most popular thing soon after.. Marilyn Manson owes his career to lunatic fringe religious nuts. Nobody would have ever heard of 2LiveCrew without idiots trying to ban them way back when. Yeah, so I'm dating myself.
Terrible karma and aiming lower, which in this environment of one-sided reason, is higher.
"I can't imagine that anyone with an above-room-temperature IQ and a heartbeat would be unable to interpret what's happening on the screen"
Farenheight or Celcius?
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In itself? sure, but not after first claiming that he didn't see it..
Slow down with the logic there. You're making some people confused.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
I find this to be the definitive article chronicaling the pure stupidity of one Jack Thompson. Plenty of links, good commentary.
a ck_thompson_thinks_he_s_jesus
http://www.grumpygamer.biz/index.php/2006/09/23/j
He really is a nut job.
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry.'" -Gary Larson
Do you think Jack sees the irony in trying to force a company to not release a game called bully by using strong arm tactics (like suing them in court)?
Probably not, but i'm loving it...
Ha-ha!
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I think everyone should just completly make this guy a laughing stock of the world, he must of been one of the kids that was picked on not only the kids at school but his own parents.... I think that all gamers should harass the hell out of him till he moves to the south pole or something, here is his E-mail if you would like to send him your opinion jackpeace@comcast.net
Live life to the fullest, you only get one chance at it.
Man how are you gonna just put the # for the White House out like that???? I called it just to see whatit was and now they are probably tracing my number... Damn it...Good way to get some one in trouble... You got me Props....
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SERIOUSLY. Show me proof because I am 100% sure you are full of shit. No judge in their right mind would allow a free speech law to stand like that. If they did, it would be struck on appeal (and it WOULD be appealed).
This is not a question of freedom of speech. If the laws barred such games from being sold/produced/owned at all then it would violate the first amendment (among other things) and therefore would be struck down. Which has already happened. However, the question of whether such material is to be allowed in the hands of minors is a seperate issue. Historically courts have upheld laws restricting minors' access to certain materials (such as pornography) without the consent of their parents.
The poster is correct in stating that laws that require vendors to be responsible for checking the age of customers who buy certain games/videos/music cds has generally been upheld for the same reason that laws requiring stores to check ages for cigarettes/alcohol/firearms/pornography. The argument that it presents an undue burden on the retailer was not upheld, and the laws themselves do not directly challenge constitutional rights as currently interpreted by the courts since adults still have access to these things.
The wider question, where because of these burdens and economic factors retailers/moviehouses demand that media be censored to meet the standard of their market, as happens with movies needing a certain rating or the "Wal-Mart version" of a cd, sanitized so that it no longer has a "mature" rating, and its effect on the ability of content providers to create unhindered works of art and adults to access those works has not been addressed as far as I know. I'm not sure the courts are the right answer for that question, but it is a societal problem that must be faced as surely as the problem of unsupervised, unguided/misguided children and the damage they cause because their parents refuse to take responsibility and do their jobs.
Reduce, reuse, cycle
Obviously the judge didn't get a look at the deleted "hot cocoa" mod for this game. Apparently, there is some code included in the unreleased build that if you re-enable it, lets your character choose whether to hire an unscrupulous lawyer character to "sue" the abusive bullies who are attacking the weaker NPC's. The mini-game basically has your character run back and forth between some piles of burning objectionable games, CD's and copies of the Bill of Rights and the more you fan the flames the higher your score and the more the lawyer pays you. Heck of a coincidence, huh?
And does anyone else notice that Jack is kind of naive? I mean, if he's after a Columbine simulator, I'd bet he'd wet his pants if he saw F.E.A.R. combat, which you can play for free. He's kind of sweet and old fashioned I find.
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What would Richard Feynman do, if he were here right now? He'd do some math and he'd follow through!
Did anyone really think this case would end any other way? This is the way I think it went down:
"Goddamnit, it's Jack Thompson again. I've had a migrane ever since I had to deal with that Litigation guy an hour ago... Well, let's get this over with. Bring in the guy to play the game for me."
3 hours later...
"Hot damn, did you just bean that guy in the face with a slingshot. Hahaha! That's hillarious! Hey, can I try for a bit? Huh? Why not? Oh, it's not actually relased yet. Well, what are you waiting for?! Hurry up and release it; case dismissed!"
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Good thing a judge cleared before it was published. We wouldn't want something to get published without permission from the government!
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Chill out dude. Without your submissions, Slashdot wouldn't be able to bring us so many dupes. I'm sure your submission will be approved soon.
On another note, my recent submission was rejected. I guess the release of another firewall based on another firewall based on FreeBSD is more newsworthy than a FreeBSD based desktop OS getting corporate backing.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
"Guns don't kill people, controllers do."
This is NOT a free speech issue... Our community lawmakers are NOT book burners, etc. We simply opted to enforce the ratings system in our community. Unrated Movies, etc have been and always will be available and those are left to the discretion of the particular venue. We have an Adult Bookstore in town, as well as several movie rental businesses and 1 computer store that sells video game software... All of these were consulted and were part of the lawmaking process so that undue damages would not be brought to bear on their businesses... Unlike you, who seems bent on making this a "free speech" issue, the shop owners/managers, etc were MORE THAN happy to work with the community of which they are apart. As the other reply to your enraged and enflamed post states: "The poster is correct in stating that laws that require vendors to be responsible for checking the age of customers who buy certain games/videos/music cds has generally been upheld for the same reason that laws requiring stores to check ages for cigarettes/alcohol/firearms/pornography." This is all that was being stated... nothing more... I apologize if something I said was unclear to you, however your use of profanity and feeling the need to write the post in such a manner begs the question of what I may have done to offend YOU? At least I wonder about that until I read some of your other posts and realized that profanity seems to be just a natural part of your vocabulary. Again, My apologies for your misinterpretation of the information being presented.
No, because all you've done then is leave the real criminals with guns, and eliminated the means with which a whole lot of non-criminals have to defend themselves.
More (legitimately owned) guns are used in self-defense every day than in crime; it's just that the crime gets more publicity so that's what people associate.
If you took away all the legitimately purchased guns, you would eliminate the small amount of crime that's committed with them, but you'd also eliminate the much greater number of self-defense (and general crime deterrence) that they also do.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Because when those little white or black squares show up in the top left corner, it means you should hit play on your DVR because the commercials are over.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Now why didn't you include the best bit, Jack Thompson attacking the Judge over his actions.
It is a great mine full of wonderful gems such as the following(the best bit is first, Jack gets PWNED!):
5. How dare you, Judge, promise a hearing today and then prevent that hearing from occurring. How dare you, Judge, petulantly order the production of the game after it is released on Tuesday morning. I didn't even ask for that. You did that out of spite, and you were smiling when you did that. You really enjoyed that one, didn't you, Judge?
Take-Two's lawyer, Rebecca Ward, lied in your courtroom when she told you that a "Teen" rating is an age restriction at the point of sale. That is an utter fabrication, and you are on notice that it is an utter fabrication. Ms. Ward is very good at fabricating things for a client that routinely engages in criminal conduct, and you bought all this hook, line, and sinker.
You were very nice to my other expert, Miami Police Chief Ken Harms, and then made it certain that your courtroom would not be graced with his real expertise. I would have preferred less courtesy and more due process, and so would the victims that are on the way.
You broke every promise made me. Disagree with me if you like, but don't refuse to hold a hearing you promised to have. Don't promise to view an entire game and then cut out after an hour.
Next time you promise a "hearing," I'll bring a parent with me whose kid is in the ground because of a kid who trained to kill him or her on a violent video game. Try mocking that person, I dare you.
Seriously, there is sooo much crap in there that I could end up quoting the whole thing!
Negative forty.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
I really wanted to do that, but as far as I know it's impossible to get your submission text in slashdot. Do you know of a way?
Admittedly, this game is disgusting and puerile, but it is protected by free speech.
I'll be damned if I can figure out what all the long-winded philosophical discussions have to do with those huge robot battles and all the outbursts of high-pitched screaming :P
I, like many others, always thought JT was just a nutcase with a chip on his shoulder, but maybe theres more to the guy and he's not really as inept as he seems?
/shrug
*plucks conspiracy theory from bum*
Maybe he's secretly in the employ of a game publisher or perhaps a marketing company?
There are a lot of companies around these days that arrange viral marketing campaigns, and something like this would just be an extension on that type of thing.
Consider the sheer amount of coverage his antics recieve. And he always seems to lose the case (has he ever actually won a games related case??) even when they look like they might have some sort of merit at the start of the case.
Of course, maybe I'm just reading too much into the guy and he really is what he seems
Just curious... is it just me, or would the 'Jack effect' positively affect sales the same way a 18SX rating would? Isn't Jack his own worst enemy?
this judge put jack thompson in his place at the bottom, a worthless piece of shit. i am so glad i live in michigan away from jack thompson... I love this judge!!
Jack Thompson raped my dog.
You disappoint. I was expecting a response dealing with Kelvin.
Ninjas don't carry tic tacs
How about Rankine?
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
That is acceptable.
Ninjas don't carry tic tacs
I prefer Jackass v. Rockstar