Take Two employees could face Jail time for Hot Coffee

[CptStern]

Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter is advising caution on investment in Take-Two interactive, hinting that the recently issued grand jury subpoenas could signal criminal indictments for the publisher.

"We note that grand jury subpoenas are founded in criminal investigations," Pachter stated.

"As such, we believe that it is likely that one or more Take-Two employees may be subject to a potential criminal indictment."

The publisher announced on Monday that it had received grand jury subpoenas from the county of New York, calling for numerous documents for periods from October 1st, 2001.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=18022

holy **** this has got to stop ..wtf america do something about the extremists in your country already


good commentary on the news by Kotaku

Intriguing. You'd think that video game publishers couldn't be indicted for failure to subscribe to a voluntary ratings system, but luckily, someone's thinking of the children. Isn't it interesting, though, that employees of a games publisher can face criminal indictment for including hidden scenes in a game that are far tamer than the ones pornographers film and sell with impugnity? And can someone explain to me how a kid walking in and buying a copy of Grand Theft Auto is more corrupting than them walking into a bookstore and buying a volume by everyone's favorite "I punched her in the stomach, then ****ed her" novelist, Henry Miller?

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/ta...nal-indictment-for-hot-coffee-184224.php#more

 

[Ludah]

Wow, they really picked this up and ran with it. I wonder how much more they can beat out of this dead horse. Maybe the death penalty!