October 14, 2006
Jack Thompson's unprecedented legal challenge to Rockstar's upcoming release of Bully made news around the world this week.Thompson himself cited coverage by the BBC, which was given access to an unfinished version of the game. While noting Thompson's objections to Bully, the BBC included extensive comments on the game from an unnamed Rockstar spokesperson. The news service also pointed out that public nuisance suits of the type filed by Thompson typically address issues like environmental pollution.
Thompson cited the BBC's access to the game in an appeal to Florida's Third District Court, which was immediately denied. The attorney claimed that Rockstar's making Bully available to the BBC for preview negated arguments of prior restraint of free speech raised by attorneys for Take Two.
The Bully saga also showed up in news coverage as far away as India and the North Korea Times.
We wonder if Kim Jong-Il pre-ordered?
Comments
Jack Thompson encouraged the world to see what the game is really about: Childish pranks and novel ideas regarding the way the game responds to you.
I've since preordered it. Thanks, Jack!
OK, can somebody explain this logic to me. I just don't get it.
or me.
It could also just be classic JT rearing its head when he is on the losing side again. Lots of incoherant ramblings of a tool.
Jack says that Take-Two, having delivered a beta version to the BBC for a preview, negated Prior Restraint, even though Prior Restraint refers to material that is commercially and publicly released? That's like letting Roger Egbert watch an unfinished cut of a potentially good movie- nobody else is watching it, and in the case of Roger, nobody important.