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Bully => Bully 1 Discussion => Topic started by: Nazz on March 16, 2007, 06:03:37 PM
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Take-Two takes legal fight to Thompson
For years, Take-Two Interactive has been on the receiving end of legal actions by gaming violence critic Jack Thompson. Now, though, the publisher is taking a proactive tack in its ongoing dispute with the Florida lawyer. As reported by GamePolitics, Take-Two earlier this week filed a complaint against Thompson, seeking to preempt a repeat of last year's legal battle to keep the schoolyard action game Bully from being banned in the state.
In that case, Thompson filed suit to have the game declared a public nuisance, making it a crime to sell it in the state of Florida. While the judge in the case approved the game for sale, he did so only after ordering Take-Two to provide him with a copy of the game so he could review its content for himself. (The judge later filed a complaint with the Florida bar about Thompson's behavior in court.)
In this week's suit, Take-Two is hoping to have a new judge declare that Florida's public nuisance law does not apply to its upcoming releases Grand Theft Auto IV and Manhunt 2, or any games for that matter. The publisher is also seeking an injunction to prevent Thompson from filing suit to prevent the distribution of those games, or even to review their content before release. Finally, the publisher wants to be reimbursed for its attorneys' fees and costs and be granted "such other general and equitable relief as [the court] deems fit and proper."
According to Take-Two, having the nuisance law applied to games would create an unconstitutional chilling effect on the freedom of speech. "The nuisance statutes as applied to GTA IV and Manhunt 2 is unconstitutationally vague because it fails to give reasonable notice of what conduct is prohibited," the complaint reads.
By the statute's wording, that "which tends to annoy the community or injure the health of the community, or become manifestly injurious to the morals or manners of the people" constitutes a nuisance.
According to the filing, "These terms have no clear meaning in the context of videogames, and persons of ordinary intelligence are forced to guess at the meaning and scope of statutes as applied to videogames. ... Because of the lack of clear, defined terms, application of the statutes will restrict a far broader range of videogames than GTA IV and Manhunt 2 because Plaintiff's distributors likely will respond to the uncertainty and fear of penalties by withholding Plaintiff's videogame from the public. As a result, Plaintiff's protected expression will not reach willing recipients."
Interestingly enough, the complaint also references Take-Two and Thompson's legal tango last year over Bully and suggests it ended with a compromise between the longtime rivals. After a request for a temporary restraining order preventing the sale of Bully was rejected and Thompson's appeal denied, the suit says the lawyer "dismissed the Bully lawsuit with prejudice in exchange for Take-Two's agreement to withdraw a motion for sanctions."
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nazz wtf where are you???????
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Take-Two takes legal fight to Thompson
making it a crime to sell it in the state of Florida. "
well i still got Bully!;)
makes me ashamed to even live in the SAME STATE as that MOFO
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why havent you killed him yet shadow????
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Finally, someone stands up to psychopaths who despise the First Amendment.
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*Pretends to know what the first ammendment is*
I know its a law but I dunno what the actual law is.
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First Amendment (http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/First_amendment)
The First Amendment basically allows you to say what you want, when you want. I think the only parts of speech that aren't protected by the First Amendment is when someone shouts 'fire!' in a crowded building for fun, but I may be wrong. We went over that in Social Studies back in grade school, so my memory's a bit fuzzy.
But honestly, it's about time someone treads on THOMPSON'S First Amendment rights. After all, he does it to everyone else.
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why havent you killed him yet shadow????
Wednesday he is going to be meeting someone at a Fast Food restraunt... im rigging his car with " Car Bombs"... FUCKIN IRAQI STYLE!!!
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boom we are very very close!
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i actually live about 2 hours away from that bitch.
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boom we are very very close!
i might need your Ninja skills to help plant the bombs. ARE YOU IN!?
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we shall have our revenge very soon
muwhaaaaaahaahaha *cough* *cough* hahahahaah
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hhehehehehheheheheheheheheh....aaaaand now im bored...
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I wonder if he has his 'people' trolling this website, so he can sue us for slander, death threats, conspiracy to commit murder, etc.
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" Hey i want people"
~ dude at mailbox in that one commercial.
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I want people, too.
Mainly to do my dirty work. I'm a lazy motherfucker.
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hey ill do the dirty work...for a price...
* Lightning flash and does the Dr. Evil hand pose thing*
one Hundred MILLion Dolllars...
Bwah bwa wah Bwaaaaaah!!!
MWAA HAAA HAAA MWAA HAA HAAA MWAAA HAAAAA!!!!!
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Christ, I think Thompson needs to get laid!
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It's against his religion for pleasure.
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Christ, I think Thompson needs to get laid!
no he needs to get SHOT... or blown up...or tortured to death... or poisoned
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And you still haven't done it because ... ?
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wednesday....
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if i lived in florida, i would go out one night and chuck a brick though his office window
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Why a brick? SET IT ON FIRE.
And hope he's inside.
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nazz wtf where are you???????
Im right here...watching you....muhhahaha