Los Angeles sues Rockstar games

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"The city attorney's office has sued the makers of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" for allegedly hiding pornographic material inside the video game, officials said.

Rocky Delgadillo said his office sued Rockstar Games and its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, for making misleading statements in marketing the game and engaging in unfair competition."


engaging in unfair competition? how so?


"The game, released in October 2004, features characters that commit crimes such as murder, drug dealing and pimping. The game also had an embedded "mini game" in which characters could engage in explicit sexual acts"


inaccurate reporting, the game had parts of a mini game that was only accessible when someone wrote a mod for it. There was nothing explicit about it, unless you call off camera penetration and gilmpses of boobies explicit


"The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, was part of an ongoing investigation into the marketing of video games, authorities said. The game also spurred several states to crack down on sales of mature-rated games to minors.

Delgadillo is seeking civil penalties from Rockstar Games Take-Two Interactive. He also is requesting that Take-Two and Rockstar take action to ensure full disclosure to consumers about the content of their video games."


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Wow, LA's just finding out about this now?
They're slow.
 
^ exactly what i was thinking
 
Why is LA sueing them? The whole damn city's full of filth and violence, smut and gore, scum and villainy.
 
Sulkdodds said:
Why is LA sueing them? The whole damn city's full of filth and violence, smut and gore, scum and villainy.
SA
LA
CANT you SEE the RESEMBLANCE?????????????????????????
OH JESUS
 
Well Los Santos in the game is meant to be LA.

I hate all these law suits, it seems to be the new way to make money or get what you want, whine about it, then sue somebody.
 
Sure, right, but it doesn't say they're sueing Rockstar for copyright infringement (lol!) or for libel (can you libel an entire city? And not in writing). So what the ****'s the point?
 
they're suing them for unfair competition (what the hell does that mean?) and misleading marketing ..apparently they didnt tell raters that if you hacked the game and added stuff you could pretend to have sex in game ...bigfukingwhoopdeedoo
 
CptStern said:
they're suing them for unfair competition (what the hell does that mean?) and misleading marketing ..apparently they didnt tell raters that if you hacked the game and added stuff you could pretend to have sex in game ...bigfukingwhoopdeedoo
So why doesn't Sega sue those guys who made that weird cracked up version of Sonic with the rings and such. I think the ring is Tails collar so he couldn't evade Sonics pimpage.
 
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