Jack Thompson takes on Microsoft!
He's at it again.
Discuss.
Edit: A translation of his letter to Microsoft.
Dear Mr. Gates,
Please do the job of the parents/guardians of the kids who are playing Halo 3, and the job of the store clerks who sell the game, or I'll hold you legally accountable.
Regards,
Jack Thompson
Last edited by Rostum; 05-25-2007 at 03:51 AM.
"... and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written."
"Lee Boyd Malvo trained on Microsoft’s Halo to further enable him to become the remarkably efficient “DC Beltway Sniper.” "?
Halo 2's aiming sucked, maybe he should've gotten a PC game to train on!
Has Jack Thompson ever won a case?
It looks like the ground had a sex change.
That guy needs to be punched in the face repeatedly.
shhhh. It's comments like that that fuel his rage against gaming and gamers :333
Dear Mr. Thompson,
As you apparently don't know, the game rating system is simply a rating meant to assist people with judging the content of games. It has no legal backing, and, while I know you will be greatly disappointed to hear this, you can't sue people for anything related to it. There is no legal imperative to even submit a game for rating, let alone for the rating's age suggestions be enforced.
Please be kind enough to read what you write before you send it, sir. In your own words, he "trained" on the program. That means that he was not brainwashed or driven to kill by the games, he used the games to fuel his own insanity. Thus, had the game not been there, he would have trained in other ways, and would still have been just as dangerously psychotic. If anything, that is an argument to provide such excellent training tools to our soldiers and law enforcement officers, since it obviously provides such realistic simulations of violent situations.
Movies and books also transport people to a realistic world with rules different from the real world that all of us live in. Books have been around for centuries, many with violent content, yet despite that, there does not seem to be any connection between their violent content and a rise in the crime rate. In fact, literacy is more often associated with a more cultured level of society. Interesting how such a brilliant man as yourself is applying double standards to various media which has identical content.
Then perhaps you should be writing to parents and ask them not to let their children play it. Further, maybe you could try showing some actual documented evidence that supports a link between violent games and violent activity in children, versus the current indications that the rise of gaming has precipitated a drop in the current crime rate.
For someone whose profession is supposed to be the law, you seem to be remarkably lacking in knowledge of how it works. There is absolutely no legal position for your views. Before you engage in a lawsuit against a company who can afford actual lawyers who will take every cent you own, I suggest you review your legal manuals.
Disrespectfully yours,
Skyblade
Last edited by Skyblade; 05-25-2007 at 09:01 AM.
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Dear Jack Thompson,
As you obviously don't know, you can't have any control over who buys a game, outside of your own children (who I would assume would be out in the real world by now, and are thus not under your control). Trying to ban games is censorship, which, according to the 1st Amendment, one of the very documents that frames America, is unconstitutional.
Funny how you vent so much anger on video games, yet you stay silent about films, books, and songs which usually contain even more potentially offensive content. Again, why bother trying to ban all of this media, when you really have no legal control over it?
Please stop wasting your time with asinine threats. You're already disliked enough by a majority of people, and you're attempting to take on one of the largest companies on Earth.
I'll make this brief. Before you begin pointing fingers, ask yourself: Does Microsoft have any control over who buys their games? No. Therefore, your entire argument is quite ludicrous.
Oh, by the way, I'd take a look at the ESRB's ratings guides and review your legal books first, so you don't make an even bigger fool of yourself in a court of law and get countersued for all it's worth.
And how are you complaining about a game that isn't even rated yet? Sure, it's likely it'll get an M, but the violent content in the game (outside of shooting guns) is really quite low, and there's is very little blood in the game.
So, again, why are you complaining?
Cynically yours,
Elite Lord Sigma
By the way, this is far more absurd.
Last edited by Elite Lord Sigma; 05-25-2007 at 03:12 PM.
That's the sort of guy that makes the parents in the outback think that gamers are all murderous spawns of Satan.
I love this guy. He just that awesome, that he can fail so miserably and repeatedly. I didn't think people could fail this much, but once again, my faith in the human race has been shattered.
You have yet to meet Dignified Pauper, don't you?Originally Posted by Tavrobel
jigglypuff hates jack thompson
prepare to die mr thompson
Oh. My. God.
"... and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written."
I've said it before and i'll say it again...this guy is nuts!
This man is a true champion of Justice.
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