Take 2 to Settle in Hot Coffee Lawsuit
- Scribbled on February 28th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Action, Industry News
Reuters reported the following press release an hour ago:
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. has agreed to enter into settlement talks in a lawsuit accusing it of selling “Grand Theft Auto” video games containing sexually explicit images under the wrong content label, according to a court document made public on Wednesday.
A U.S. federal magistrate judge in Manhattan, in an order signed on Tuesday, stayed the proceedings in the case to allow for settlement discussions to proceed. The judge has asked for a status report by March 12, according to the document.
In a letter to the judge, dated Feb. 16, Take Two’s lawyer said the parties had “agreed to engage in settlement discussions with the hope of amicably resolving this matter.”
What is your opinion in the matter? Did Take 2 do the right thing, or should it have continued to battle in court? Let us know.
March 1st, 2007 at 9:16 am
I think Take-Two is getting owned in this one - they shouldn’t need to do a damn thing.
Maybe it’s just me, but games should be judged on the content that is playable on the game WITHOUT hacking. This mod doesn’t work unless files are modified, because hackers found the changes and implemented them by enabling areas of code that were not intended on being enabled.
To me, the person that should be sitting in court is the hacker that found and released the mod - not the publishers that released a “clean” game (clean as far as GTA goes).
March 12th, 2007 at 10:12 am
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