Comments on: LA sues maker of 'Grand Theft Auto'

Suit alleges that Take-Two Interactive Software covered up pornographic material to avoid Adults Only rating.

[averad]

GTA made me do it...

Im glad to know that states care about hidden features in a game that may include poorly rendered soft core dry humping. Honestly for a game that includes auto theft,pimping, murder,drugs etc etc etc one would think that hidden content like this wouldnt be anything to scoff at.

Get your GTA made me do it t-shirts
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[rfelgueiras]

I agree?

I don't know why, but it seems to be an american mentality that sex
is worse than violence. As a father, I can open dialogue and explain
sex to my kids, but how do you explain violence. I can understand
that the city is suing because of misinformation of the games
contents, on that ground they are correct, it's the moral conflict I
don't grasp. How is Sex for adults, but violence is not? If parents
are worried that kids will emulate the actions, I would be more
worried about kids packing heat, than being exposed to sex.

[G3M4NN]

They just need money...

I wrote about this here:
http://robztechblog.com/wordpress/

[perfectblue97]

moral, but not legally justifiable

I can't see how this is legally justifiable.

The sex scene might have been included in the game code, but it was not accessible to users so it should not be considered as part of the game.

Things might have been different if there was a cheat code to access it or if it were a secret bonus level, but no, users actually had to download a third party patch that modified the game and make this scene accessible.

This code is inaccesible under normal conditions, so it should not be counted as part of the game.

What next? suppose I were to root through the source code for Windows and find that one of the programmers had put a dirty word as a comment next to an annoying section of code inside a DLL file that was included deep within the compiled version of the Windows OS, completely inaccessible to users.

Would this lead to a law suit from angry mother's whose kids used windows at school?

[mortis9]

good point

this is something that must be addressed with legislation otherwise yes, something like what you suggested inevitably will happen.

[zaznet]

How much is LA entitled to?

Let's just say that Take Two loses the case, and is found liable to L.A. for the content it included in their game.

How much should LA get from the profits of sales of that single title? Are they entitled to even 100% of the sales from within the city? Sure 200,000 copies were sold in the state, but how much does one city in that state get?

If Take Two released the title unaware of the hidden content it's programmers slid into it, wouldn't that too make Wal-Mart, BestBuy and other retailers just as guilty?

It seems that LA is after money more than being punative for the commission of a crime that will be difficult to prove was intended by the company.

[Laserdisc]

It's not about the money...

It's about publicity. This is just another example of someone trying to get ahead in politics. Rocky Delgadillo is trying to get some big press for himself. He doesn't care one bit about Rockstar or Hot Coffee. Delgadillo and his crew whose bringing about this suit doesn't even care if he wins or loses because what he wanted to achieve has been accomplished, the press is all over this story. Rocky Delgadillo is currently running for Attorney General of California. Never EVER trust a politician.