I was just looking around haloplanet.com when i found this
You may or may not recognize Jack Thompson as the lawyer traveling the country defending every teenage murderer who played Grand Theft Auto, claiming the game, and the game alone, caused them to commit the crime. He's tried and failed about a half-dozen times in civil suits against Rockstar and Take 2 Interactive demanding hundreds of millions of dollars of reperations. Thankfully, common sense has prevailed, and he's thus far been unsuccessful. He's made it very clear in interviews that he's looking for a way into legal history books and a lot of money from commission, since if he wins once, he'll start winning every time. "Opening the floodgates", he calls it. Basically, he's the biggest single threat to the video game industry as we know it, far bigger than Congress or the FCC, since he's not seeking tougher regulations, he's seeking to bankrupt the industry. Anyway, I noticed over at Penny Arcade (which describes him as "essentially building his legacy on the broken bodies of desperate teenagers", which is a fairly accurate assessment of the situation) that he gave an interview to CBS News. What caught my attention was a rebuttal interview from Tim Buckley, of Ctrl-Alt-Del. Above it the list of other people interviewed for their thoughts includes halo.bungie.org's Claude Errera, aka Louis Wu. I'll tell you when that interview goes up. In the meantime, go shoot some hookers.
cant say ive ever heard of this guy but i was wondering if any one else had
You may or may not recognize Jack Thompson as the lawyer traveling the country defending every teenage murderer who played Grand Theft Auto, claiming the game, and the game alone, caused them to commit the crime. He's tried and failed about a half-dozen times in civil suits against Rockstar and Take 2 Interactive demanding hundreds of millions of dollars of reperations. Thankfully, common sense has prevailed, and he's thus far been unsuccessful. He's made it very clear in interviews that he's looking for a way into legal history books and a lot of money from commission, since if he wins once, he'll start winning every time. "Opening the floodgates", he calls it. Basically, he's the biggest single threat to the video game industry as we know it, far bigger than Congress or the FCC, since he's not seeking tougher regulations, he's seeking to bankrupt the industry. Anyway, I noticed over at Penny Arcade (which describes him as "essentially building his legacy on the broken bodies of desperate teenagers", which is a fairly accurate assessment of the situation) that he gave an interview to CBS News. What caught my attention was a rebuttal interview from Tim Buckley, of Ctrl-Alt-Del. Above it the list of other people interviewed for their thoughts includes halo.bungie.org's Claude Errera, aka Louis Wu. I'll tell you when that interview goes up. In the meantime, go shoot some hookers.
cant say ive ever heard of this guy but i was wondering if any one else had
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