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Take Two Files Suit Against Jack Thompson
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Zonk
on Fri Mar 16, 2007 01:20 PM
from the just-wow dept.
from the just-wow dept.
Bullied writes "Take Two has tired of Jack Thompson's frivolous lawsuits and has filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida to prevent him from filing any more 'nuisance' lawsuits. 'Take Two argues that the lawsuits violate its First Amendment rights to free expression, but it also claims that the suits are so vague as to be unconstitutional. "This unconstitutional vagueness will have a chilling effect on Plaintiff as well as Plaintiff's customers," says the company. "Plaintiff's distributors likely will respond to the uncertainty and fear of penalties by withholding Plaintiff's video games from the public."' Take Two also cites the disruptive effect Thompson's suits have on its retail partners."
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What took so long? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Some of the published letters between Jack and members of the gaming community are purely ridiculous.
I'm sure someone has linked Penny-Arcade already, but have you read this one?
http://www.grumpygamer.biz/index.php/2006/09/23/j
Re:What took so long? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Run Thompson over? (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:What took so long? (Score:5, Insightful)
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No he's not, he's thinking of his own ego. I can safely say that he doesn't represent *real* Christians.
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Re:What took so long? (Score:4, Insightful)
But this jackass comes up here every few months associated with some new attempt to litigate things out of existence. I think it's our duty as citizens, particularly if we have children, to try and pass them a world with SOME degree of personal freedom. A lot has been lost in this country, and complacency and apathy will have to shoulder a large part of the blame.
When they came for the gamers, I said nothing, because I was not a gamer.
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Can anyone fill in legal details? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Can anyone fill in legal details? (Score:5, Informative)
In this case though Take Two is looking to enjoin him from filing lawsuits over two specific games on the basis that his previous lawsuits have all been without merit. Frankly, the guy is an assclown. He has had zero effect on the sales of the games and is making enemies all over the world. He should be proud.
Tom
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Re:Can anyone fill in legal details? (Score:4, Insightful)
Funny, I don't quite think that's accurate.
If he starts bitching about a game, I know people who will rush out to buy it.
If ever said a game is good, they would rush to put it on their "not even on a very cold day in hell" list.
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(Hopefully the makers of Thompson's Water Seal [thompsonsonline.com] will have a sense of humor over it.)
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It's funny when people like him wonder why others object to being told what they should and should not consume (media, food, whateverwise). I don't think he's clued in that just because he doesn't like something doesn't mean it should be illegal.
Oh well. Du
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
gtaIV (Score:5, Funny)
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Maybe a side-quest could be to steal an ambulance and make it to "target X" before the lawyer manages to catch up to you, or perhaps to reach X ambulances and/or eliminate the lawyer before he reaches them.
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Re:Can they win? (Score:4, Informative)
But, I should point out that even though [for example] you have the right of free association, that can be stripped (re: prison, restraining order, etc).
So as punishment for filing baseless lawsuits, I can see a judge ordering that Thompson leave Take Two the fark alone.
Tom
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Re:Can they win? (Score:4, Informative)
Partly -- google for "Vexatious Litigant". Florida passed such a law to amend their rules civil procedure in 2000. http://www.ccfj.net/VexLitbill.htm [ccfj.net]
This is a federal lawsuit though, and I'm not actually aware of any federal rules on vexatious litigation -- in fact, federal court is usually where such people go to keep filing their suits.
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What spam? There's a law against spam now - there has been for a while. You can't be receiving SPAM... it's illeagul.
(Yes, spelling nazis, it was done on porpoise).
Re:Can they win? (Score:5, Informative)
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According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]:
Bolgia 5: Corrupt politicians (barrators) are immersed in a lake of boiling pitch, guarded by devils, the Malebranche ("Evil Claws"). Their leader, Malacoda ("Evil Tail"), assigns a troop to escort Virgil and Dante to the next bridge. The troop hook and torment Ciampolo, who i
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They should just pull a Viacom though, and ask for $1,000,000,000 in compensation.
Kinda hard to do with a straight face, given that they're trying to convince a judge that his lawsuits are frivolous— the word "Chutzpah" springs to mind.
There's no hope of them getting a billion bucks out of him, even if he not only goes bankrupt but shishishorupf [google.com]. I'd settle for disbarring and a federal injunction, since they might have a hope of actually getting that. Tar and feathers would be a classic touch
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The problem is that in this case, upholding it is actually doing it a disservice as he attempts to stage his ideological attacks against it.
If I were to stand on a soapbox in town square and proclaim that video games are immoral and anti-christian and the spawn of the devil and blah blah blah, the alternate-universe me sitting here and reading /. would agree with you that I'm just exercising my right to free speech.
However, if I were to stand on a soapbox and say all these things about videogames being