Surprisingly Few People Collect On GTA Hot Coffee

Relin writes "Out of the millions eligible, less than 3,000 have come forward to collect their money in the 'Hot Coffee' settlement. While the plaintiffs' lawyer is surprised by the development, Theodore Frank of the Legal Center for the Public Interest at the American Enterprise Institute seems convinced that the lawsuit was 'meritless' and will result in no payment for the legal counsel opposing Take-Two."

Comments

Re:Any surprise?

[Gewalt]

And when I paid for GTA, I actually wanted that 5$ to go to Take Two. And I STILL want them to have it.

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[TornCityVenz]

I wonder what the networth of the attention take 2 got from this is worth. Surely far more than the cost of paying out the penalty and the fees of the lawers that they probably have on full time retainer anyhow.

Re:Take Two owes more in legal fees

[Firethorn]

I say we cap the legal fees at 50% of the final settlement - IE for each $5 'settlement' received they get $5.

So instead of $1.3M, at the moment they've 'earned' ~$12k.

It'd stop some of the stupider lawsuits. I still remember getting a settlement offer for some memory I bought from crucial years ago - as far as I was concerned, I paid a fair price for it. Crucial sold me quality memory at a price seen more for shady chips.

Before I ever started going after the profit margin on computer chips I'd take a look at the jewelry industry.

I figure that most of the <3k individuals are just after a buck(five-thirty five).

On my end, if I was the judge or jury(don't know how it was decided), I'd have thrown out the case from the sheer fact that you had to download a mod to enable the content. Might as well sue 3DRealms for the mod to Duke Nukem that put actual porno on the movie screens, made the strippers actually strip(sorta), and all around more explicit. Don't mention the fact that it was a straight image swap with the more explicit stuff.

Heck, 'Hot Coffee' has made the value of the first edition of the game(before new disks were issued) more valuable!

That shows deliberate work on the part of the player. Like others have said, they could have as easily downloaded far more explicit porn, not to mention outright sex games about as easily.