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Take Two Files Suit Against Jack Thompson
Bullied writes "Take Two has tired of Jack Thompson's frivolous lawsuits and has filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida to prevent him from filing any more 'nuisance' lawsuits. 'Take Two argues that the lawsuits violate its First Amendment rights to free expression, but it also claims that the suits are so vague as to be unconstitutional. "This unconstitutional vagueness will have a chilling effect on Plaintiff as well as Plaintiff's customers," says the company. "Plaintiff's distributors likely will respond to the uncertainty and fear of penalties by withholding Plaintiff's video games from the public."' Take Two also cites the disruptive effect Thompson's suits have on its retail partners."
And why is it that Jack Thompson can walk down the street without everyone pointing and laughing?
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
I am happy as hell that someone finally had enough of a *real* case to smack him back.
He filed so many crap cases, and got away with it, it is high time the tables are turned!
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Take Two is filing suit to ban Jack Thompson from filing suit against them?
Is it even possible to be disallowed from filing lawsuits.
Just wondering.
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What are the outcome options here? Would T2's success in this suit stop JT's current lawsuits completely? Would he be able to re-file them after the games came out? Can you be liable in Civil or Criminal Court for excessive frivolous lawsuits?
I hope he knows a good lawyer!
I really do hope Take Two can find a case here, I know I've been angered more than once by his rediculous opinions, and it would be nice to finally shut him up.
They should just pull a Viacom though, and ask for $1,000,000,000 in compensation.
They should make Jack Thompson a character in GTA IV. Maybe a child rapist you must beat to death with the limbs of dead hookers.
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He'd be able to use that as evidence that video games do inspire violence in his next suit.
Better back over him a few times, just to be sure.
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Better yet, just have him as a sit in guest on the in game talk radio show. It would be an embarassing parody.
What puzzles me is that this moronic buffoon still has his law license. With his track record for groundless lawsuits and general media whoring you would think he would have been disbarred by now.
I guess that's why Fark has a "Florida" tag.
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Mod parent down all you like, but this is exactly what 99.9% of you hypocrites were thinking. Don't try to deny it.
I find nothing false or irrational about parent's post. Once again, Slashdot proves how bad its mod system truly is.
TT should put in a "takeout the evil lawyer" mission in the next GTA. They could make it so obvious they are talking about JT, while being sure not to mention him by name, etc. to maintain plausible denyability. That would just be great. It could be one of those missions you can play over and over again, with it getting a little harder each time. What could the mission reward be? I dunno - but it would be pretty funny and the ultimate revenge. (:
So wait. If a lawyer is being sued . . . does that mean that in Soviet Russia, lawyers sue you? But I thought that's what happened in Democratic America! Now I'm all confused.
I'm not a fan of Take Two and their shoddy publishing, but it's about time!
This is his response, but it sounds like some retard on an internet forum...
Why does this have anything to do with religion?
I'm from the UK so I only get to read news but to spread ignorance and use religion to get his own way.. This guy is going to hell if it exists.
The ironic part - and perhaps Take Two should even point this out to the court is - if they were at all effecting impressionable minds - and Jack Thompson were percieved as a visible threat to their video games - someone like me (being an avid gamer for over a decade now) would have at least thrown rocks through his window, or stolen his car - or used the floating, rotating sniper rifle on the roof of the tall building to take him out (you need to jump the gap with the motor cycle to get there though first, and climb a few fire escapes). If he were right, even in the slightest about my culture - he would, without question, already be dead by some crazed gamer who can't differentiate between him and a character in a video game. The fact remains that he is alive - and therefore horribly wrong in his accusations about my culture.
Also, I am the king of the gamers' internet, I know all serious gamers in the western hemisphere (and many in the eastern) and I can tell you right now that I didn't know either of the boys from Columbine, or the copy cat killings - or any other young killer we have been accused of creating.
Let me put it this way as well - if someone were a killer AND a gamer (because you can be one without the other, if anything a negative correlation as I will in a moment explain) why would they go through all the steps necessary to take out their mis-placed aggression and plot in the real world - when all they need do is boot up their favorite game and they can be killing legions of enemies in an RTS in seconds and with the click of a button - or be stabbing Alliance in their abdominal aortas (kidney shot) just as easily. Do you have any idea how much more effort it would take to for a killer (who is also a gamer) to kill in real life rather than in a game? The amount of extra effort, for to them what is apparently no different (between killing in games, and killing in life, because they are so dissociated from reality) is absurd almost to the point where I would say games inhibit violent crime because dissociative murderers who can't tell the difference between games and life (i have never met anyone in my experience with gamers by the way, of ANY age - who does not know the difference) find games a more appropriate outlet. Your turning Jeffrey Dahmers and Charles Mansons into l33treaper, and omglazerbeamspewpewpew - from potential mass murderers into video game addicts - if only because it's an easier way to get their kicks. Where as for the incredible majority of us who are gamers, but who are not mass murderers are finding a pass time more active, more social, and more intelligent than sitting on a couch watching Naruto reruns at 4am and then sticking around to watch a half hour of Pucca as a guilty pleasure.
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