Dionysusigma
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This might be old news, but I just found it today...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...&u=/ap/20031111/ap_en_bu/video_game_lawsuit_5
'Grand Theft Auto' Makers Fight Lawsuit
Tue Nov 11, 8:19 AM ET
By DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Associated Press Writer
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The creators of the video game series "Grand Theft Auto" want a federal judge to dismiss a $246 million lawsuit filed by the families of two people shot by teenagers.
Rockstar Games and its New York City-based parent, Take-Two Interactive Software, said the victims' families were trying to hold them liable "based on the expressive content of the video game."
Retailer Wal-Mart and marketer Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., are also named in the lawsuit.
Aaron Hamel, 45, was killed and Kimberly Bede, 19, was seriously wounded when their cars were hit June 25 by .22-caliber bullets while driving along Interstate 40.
Stepbrothers William Buckner, 16, and Joshua Buckner, 14, were sentenced in August to an indefinite term after pleading guilty in juvenile court to reckless homicide, endangerment and assault.
The boys told investigators they got the rifles from a locked room in their home and decided to randomly shoot at tractor-trailer rigs, just like in the video game "Grand Theft Auto III."
Responding Oct. 29 in U.S. District Court, Rockstar and Take-Two contend that such ideas and concepts as well as the "purported psychological effects" on the Buckners are protected by the First Amendment's free-speech clause.
A lawyer who represents the victims dismissed the claim, saying he would seek to move the case back into state court for consideration under Tennessee's consumer protection act.
Somehow this strikes me as rather silly. Wal-Mart getting sued, much less Sony for making the computer itself! Why not blame the mining companies that produce gravel, which in turn makes a lot of dust, that settles on the keyboard that the dumb kids were touching while they played the game!
/rant off
Do video games promote violence? Probably.
Do video games glamorize violence? Definately.
Do video games cause violence? Hard to prove... but look at http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21151&highlight=Grand+Theft+Auto and tell me what your answer might be...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...&u=/ap/20031111/ap_en_bu/video_game_lawsuit_5
'Grand Theft Auto' Makers Fight Lawsuit
Tue Nov 11, 8:19 AM ET
By DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Associated Press Writer
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The creators of the video game series "Grand Theft Auto" want a federal judge to dismiss a $246 million lawsuit filed by the families of two people shot by teenagers.
Rockstar Games and its New York City-based parent, Take-Two Interactive Software, said the victims' families were trying to hold them liable "based on the expressive content of the video game."
Retailer Wal-Mart and marketer Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., are also named in the lawsuit.
Aaron Hamel, 45, was killed and Kimberly Bede, 19, was seriously wounded when their cars were hit June 25 by .22-caliber bullets while driving along Interstate 40.
Stepbrothers William Buckner, 16, and Joshua Buckner, 14, were sentenced in August to an indefinite term after pleading guilty in juvenile court to reckless homicide, endangerment and assault.
The boys told investigators they got the rifles from a locked room in their home and decided to randomly shoot at tractor-trailer rigs, just like in the video game "Grand Theft Auto III."
Responding Oct. 29 in U.S. District Court, Rockstar and Take-Two contend that such ideas and concepts as well as the "purported psychological effects" on the Buckners are protected by the First Amendment's free-speech clause.
A lawyer who represents the victims dismissed the claim, saying he would seek to move the case back into state court for consideration under Tennessee's consumer protection act.
Somehow this strikes me as rather silly. Wal-Mart getting sued, much less Sony for making the computer itself! Why not blame the mining companies that produce gravel, which in turn makes a lot of dust, that settles on the keyboard that the dumb kids were touching while they played the game!
/rant off
Do video games promote violence? Probably.
Do video games glamorize violence? Definately.
Do video games cause violence? Hard to prove... but look at http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21151&highlight=Grand+Theft+Auto and tell me what your answer might be...
Send the little punks to jail and dismiss the lawsuit. Just like Camel said, If video games cause people to forget consequences for actions, then I would have been dead a long time ago.