Jack Thompson Cites Gamespot, Kotaku, SPOnG, Joystiq In Court Filing

Gamepolitics, Kotaku, SPOnG, Joystiq, Gamespot and others are accused of conspiring with Take-Two to commit racketeering activites. Thompson is attempting to challenge Take Two et al under the United States ' Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organisations (RICO) legislation

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What on earth? He's serious!!! You gotta love him. He's funnier than Britney. 

LOL! :lol:

What on earth? He's serious!!! You gotta love him. He's funnier than Britney.

the-very-best

Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.sexy_luigi

Sure, let's just stop making violent movies too? No more violent shows either. Bye bye 24. Bye bye Prison Break. 

I seriously hate this dude. Someone needs to organize a protest of gamers. Get like 10,000 people to protest in front of his house or something, so he can get the message, there are a lot more people against him then with him. Stop trying to impede on my civil liberties. If I wanna play a game where I cut a hookers breast off, eat them, and then take a dump on top of the bible, that is my right.Zerostatic0

But if we do that, he'll just think we were riled up by Gamestop, Take Two's partner in racketeering!

I dislike what he's trying to do also, but at this point, I've begun to realize that he's really just harmless. He's too fanatical to do anything intelligent enough to be damaging.

He's more funny to watch than anything else.  

Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.sexy_luigi

[QUOTE="sexy_luigi"]Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.the-very-best

Sure, let's just stop making violent movies too? No more violent shows either. Bye bye 24. Bye bye Prison Break.

and putting in a hidden sex minigame is such an awesome thing to do :|

rockstar have no one to blame but themselves 

Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.sexy_luigi

Why do they need to stop?

Violence exists in all media. To eliminate games like GTA and Manhunt is to relegate videogames to the status of toys. They can be so much more than that, and if they're going to get respect as a legitimate media form, removing violent videogames is not the way to do it.  

Iam confused...

Is he out to ban certain games outright from even being released? or make it that they are age resitricted and can't be sold to anyone below the restricted age?

As iam from the UK, many games are rated by the BBFC and often get an 18 certificate, this means selling any such games to someone below that age is illegal. This seems "normal" to me as it always been this way. Just as much as if your not 18 you can't by alcohol.

I only mention this as in the interviews ive seen of Jack Thompson he often refers to the UK rating systems and its laws, but he seems more intrested it out right stopping these games from being made/released, instead of simply making it that kids can't buy them

Please educated my ignorance, wtf does he really want?

[QUOTE="the-very-best"]

[QUOTE="sexy_luigi"]Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.sexy_luigi

Sure, let's just stop making violent movies too? No more violent shows either. Bye bye 24. Bye bye Prison Break.

and putting in a hidden sex minigame is such an awesome thing to do :|

rockstar have no one to blame but themselves

Nothing wrong with sex and Rockstar's games are rated M for Mature anyway (AO now, but you get my point).

Don't play it if you can't handle it. It's just like not going to watch an R rated movie like Saw or whatever if you're not mature enough. 

Why destroy entertainment? 

[QUOTE="the-very-best"]

[QUOTE="sexy_luigi"]Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.sexy_luigi

Sure, let's just stop making violent movies too? No more violent shows either. Bye bye 24. Bye bye Prison Break.

and putting in a hidden sex minigame is such an awesome thing to do :|

rockstar have no one to blame but themselves 

[QUOTE="the-very-best"]

[QUOTE="sexy_luigi"]Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.sexy_luigi

Sure, let's just stop making violent movies too? No more violent shows either. Bye bye 24. Bye bye Prison Break.

and putting in a hidden sex minigame is such an awesome thing to do :|

rockstar have no one to blame but themselves

[QUOTE="Zerostatic0"]I seriously hate this dude. Someone needs to organize a protest of gamers. Get like 10,000 people to protest in front of his house or something, so he can get the message, there are a lot more people against him then with him. Stop trying to impede on my civil liberties. If I wanna play a game where I cut a hookers breast off, eat them, and then take a dump on top of the bible, that is my right.sonicmj1

But if we do that, he'll just think we were riled up by Gamestop, Take Two's partner in racketeering!

I dislike what he's trying to do also, but at this point, I've begun to realize that he's really just harmless. He's too fanatical to do anything intelligent enough to be damaging.

He's more funny to watch than anything else.

I have nothing against violence in games for artisitc purposes, im more against making something violent for the sake of free publicity 

[QUOTE="sonicmj1"]

[QUOTE="Zerostatic0"]I seriously hate this dude. Someone needs to organize a protest of gamers. Get like 10,000 people to protest in front of his house or something, so he can get the message, there are a lot more people against him then with him. Stop trying to impede on my civil liberties. If I wanna play a game where I cut a hookers breast off, eat them, and then take a dump on top of the bible, that is my right.sexy_luigi

But if we do that, he'll just think we were riled up by Gamestop, Take Two's partner in racketeering!

I dislike what he's trying to do also, but at this point, I've begun to realize that he's really just harmless. He's too fanatical to do anything intelligent enough to be damaging.

He's more funny to watch than anything else.

I have nothing against violence in games for artisitc purposes, im more against making something violent for the sake of free publicity

Iam confused...

Is he out to ban certain games outright from even being released? or make it that they are age resitricted and can't be sold to anyone below the restricted age?

As iam from the UK, many games are rated by the BBFC and often get an 18 certificate, this means selling any such games to someone below that age is illegal. This seems "normal" to me as it always been this way. Just as much as if your not 18 you can't by alcohol.

I only mention this as in the interviews ive seen of Jack Thompson he often refers to the UK rating systems and its laws, but he seems more intrested it out right stopping these games from being made/released, instead of simply making it that kids can't buy them

Please educated my ignorance, wtf does he really want?

Snagal123

I think far more 'mature' people play these games than he's willing to admit. Perhaps it wouldn't make as good a case for him to say 'these video games are corrupting our adults' as it is to claim 'these video games are corrupting our youth.'

Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.sexy_luigi

Isnt it ironic that Take 2 can be considered one of the reasons why Nintendo will fail again this time around.....?

Jack Thompson is a fool for involving GameSpot in his mission,leave us be! 

[QUOTE="sexy_luigi"][QUOTE="the-very-best"]

[QUOTE="sexy_luigi"]Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.the-very-best

Sure, let's just stop making violent movies too? No more violent shows either. Bye bye 24. Bye bye Prison Break.

and putting in a hidden sex minigame is such an awesome thing to do :|

rockstar have no one to blame but themselves

Nothing wrong with sex and Rockstar's games are rated M for Mature anyway (AO now, but you get my point).

Don't play it if you can't handle it. It's just like not going to watch an R rated movie like Saw or whatever if you're not mature enough.

Why destroy entertainment?

hey listen. im not against destroying entertainment, and im not against violence in games, im against violence for the sake of violence and free publicity 

Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.sexy_luigi

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[QUOTE="Zerostatic0"]I seriously hate this dude. Someone needs to organize a protest of gamers. Get like 10,000 people to protest in front of his house or something, so he can get the message, there are a lot more people against him then with him. Stop trying to impede on my civil liberties. If I wanna play a game where I cut a hookers breast off, eat them, and then take a dump on top of the bible, that is my right.sexy_luigi

But if we do that, he'll just think we were riled up by Gamestop, Take Two's partner in racketeering!

I dislike what he's trying to do also, but at this point, I've begun to realize that he's really just harmless. He's too fanatical to do anything intelligent enough to be damaging.

He's more funny to watch than anything else.

I have nothing against violence in games for artisitc purposes, im more against making something violent for the sake of free publicity

[QUOTE="sexy_luigi"]Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.DriftMax

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[QUOTE="Zerostatic0"]I seriously hate this dude. Someone needs to organize a protest of gamers. Get like 10,000 people to protest in front of his house or something, so he can get the message, there are a lot more people against him then with him. Stop trying to impede on my civil liberties. If I wanna play a game where I cut a hookers breast off, eat them, and then take a dump on top of the bible, that is my right.sexy_luigi

But if we do that, he'll just think we were riled up by Gamestop, Take Two's partner in racketeering!

I dislike what he's trying to do also, but at this point, I've begun to realize that he's really just harmless. He's too fanatical to do anything intelligent enough to be damaging.

He's more funny to watch than anything else.

I have nothing against violence in games for artisitc purposes, im more against making something violent for the sake of free publicity

Grand Theft Auto is violent for a reason. The game could not exist in the form that it is in without being violent. Removing the violence from Grand Theft Auto would severely hamper the freedom that is the hallmark of the game, and it would make your character's identity inauthentic. Rockstar doesn't make its games violent for publicity. It makes them violent because it makes sense in the context of the game. If they did that for publicity, you would have seen more violence in Bully, such that it would not have earned a T rating.

Besides, if we crack down on games like GTA and Manhunt (which have no purpose for their violence, in your view), who's going to draw the line between which games are 'art' and which games are gratuitously violent? It would still create a chilling effect on violence in games, whether the violence makes sense or not. 

hey listen. im not against destroying entertainment, and im not against violence in games, im against violence for the sake of violence and free publicity

sexy_luigi

If you look closer GTA has more than "just" violence going for it.

I'm not going to allow anyone to say that, especially when it's such a well received game worldwide and even the site you're posting on agrees that it is excellent, 9.6/10 three times in a row.

Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.sexy_luigi

[QUOTE="DriftMax"][QUOTE="sexy_luigi"]Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.PSBox3SixWi

Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.sexy_luigi

I hope he loses miserably.  hardcore Nintendo fans need to realize that adult gamers exist; often with adult  tastes in gaming.

[QUOTE="sexy_luigi"]

hey listen. im not against destroying entertainment, and im not against violence in games, im against violence for the sake of violence and free publicity

the-very-best

If you look closer GTA has more than "just" violence going for it.

I'm not going to allow anyone to say that, especially when it's such a well received game worldwide and even the site you're posting on agrees that it is excellent, 9.6/10 three times in a row.

then why was a sex minigame included? 

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[QUOTE="Zerostatic0"]I seriously hate this dude. Someone needs to organize a protest of gamers. Get like 10,000 people to protest in front of his house or something, so he can get the message, there are a lot more people against him then with him. Stop trying to impede on my civil liberties. If I wanna play a game where I cut a hookers breast off, eat them, and then take a dump on top of the bible, that is my right.sexy_luigi

But if we do that, he'll just think we were riled up by Gamestop, Take Two's partner in racketeering!

I dislike what he's trying to do also, but at this point, I've begun to realize that he's really just harmless. He's too fanatical to do anything intelligent enough to be damaging.

He's more funny to watch than anything else.

I have nothing against violence in games for artisitc purposes, im more against making something violent for the sake of free publicity 

Oh you mean a minigame that you could only access by downloading a MOD or hacking your xbox or ps2? Any rouge dev can put assets into the game. and in this case it wasn't even in the game it was just on the disc.

Guess what someone could hack the WII and turn mario into a giant penis by altering his model and his textures.

[QUOTE="Zerostatic0"]I seriously hate this dude. Someone needs to organize a protest of gamers. Get like 10,000 people to protest in front of his house or something, so he can get the message, there are a lot more people against him then with him. Stop trying to impede on my civil liberties. If I wanna play a game where I cut a hookers breast off, eat them, and then take a dump on top of the bible, that is my right.sonicmj1

But if we do that, he'll just think we were riled up by Gamestop, Take Two's partner in racketeering!

I dislike what he's trying to do also, but at this point, I've begun to realize that he's really just harmless. He's too fanatical to do anything intelligent enough to be damaging.

He's more funny to watch than anything else.

Jack isn't taken seriously by noone anymore. His supporters are mostly *fanatistic-religious-retards-in-their-40s' which get fewer and fewer each day. It's a lost battle he's fighting for.

*I hope I don't offend religious people with this comment. 

[QUOTE="sexy_luigi"]Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.princeofshapeir

 Thompson must somehow think that Take 2 is :

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[QUOTE="the-very-best"][QUOTE="sexy_luigi"]

hey listen. im not against destroying entertainment, and im not against violence in games, im against violence for the sake of violence and free publicity

sexy_luigi

If you look closer GTA has more than "just" violence going for it.

I'm not going to allow anyone to say that, especially when it's such a well received game worldwide and even the site you're posting on agrees that it is excellent, 9.6/10 three times in a row.

then why was a sex minigame included?

What the hell is wrong with being controversial? How do you think companies/singer/tv shows/movies become famous? Do you think we'd know who Paris Hilton is if she didn't do that sex tape? That's just how businesses work. Controversy is the foundation of popularity and there is nothing wrong with providing a shock value to viewers, hence brining entertainment to them.

Why focus on one thing that looks bad about GTA and ignore all the great things about GTA?

[QUOTE="princeofshapeir"][QUOTE="sexy_luigi"]Well i hope he does win and take 2 goes out of business along with rockstar, those disgustingly violent games (gta, manhunt) need to stop and we;re not helping by making fun of the guy.kutaragism