Hi folks,

Jack Thompson threatened to sue microsoft over Halo 3's release. Sue. Microsoft. HEHEHEHEHEHE

I think I'll root for MS to win. I want my Halo 3 damnit!

Microsoft has deeper pockets and better lawyers than Jack has. Because Jack is his own lawyer. And anyone who is his own lawyer has a fool as his client.

Talk amongst yourselves.

 

I could of looked the other way about GTA, but when he starts to screw up Halo, He just opened up a can of worms.

Can't Bill Gates have him killed or something?

 

Heres the brilliant letter:

"As you know, the Federal Trade Commission has repeatedly found that games rated “Mature” by the video game industry-captured Entertainment Software Rating Board are routinely sold to kids under the age of 17 despite the age rating. The most recent failure rate of the ratings on “Mature” games, according to the FTC, is 42%. The entire rating system is a fraud, and “broken,” the latter description aptly provided by Senator Hillary Clinton.

As you also know, Lee Boyd Malvo trained on Microsoft’s Halo to further enable him to become the remarkably efficient “DC Beltway Sniper.” That was reported by NBC News at the time and was noted in Malvo’s criminal trial.

You appeared on CBS’ 60 Minutes II and rather revealing and usefully noted that “the cool thing about these games is that they transport you to a world you think is real.” Precisely. Capcom has recently disclosed to investors that your video game industry’s violent games, sold to children, pose a real hazard to the health of the industry. Right on.

The hyperviolent Microsoft Xbox 360 game Halo 3 is scheduled by your company for commercial release in September of this year. The Beta version that was released last week shows us all just how violent the game is and how inappropriate it is for play by anyone under 17, as the “Mature” rating it will surely receive indicates.

Here’s the deal, Mr. Gates: Either Microsoft undertakes dramatic, real steps, through its marketing, wholesale, and retail operations to assure that Halo 3 is not sold, via the Internet and in stores, directly to anyone under 17, or I shall proceed to make sure that Microsoft is held to that standard by appropriate legal means. I have done that before successfully as to Best Buy, and I shall do so again as to Microsoft and all retailers of Halo 3.

Regards, Jack Thompson"

I'm sorry but isn't it the retailers job to make sure that children under 17 dont buy M rated games? Is it Budweisers job to make sure that people under 21 dont drink? Is its Benellis job to make sure people dont use their shotguns to commit crimes?

The guys a moron.

How do you train to fire a real weapon by playing Halo?

 

So who is this guy? just a money digger, or what? this is the first i've heard of him...

 

Hes a moron. Hes also a lawyer from Miami with nothing better to do than attack the entertainment industry on everything from Rap Music to GTA. Hes a turd.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)

 

These are the kinda of people that made me disgusted at church, and was eventually a reason why I don't go anymore.

 

Oh yeah, I feel ya. Once, this burger king employee tried to force me to super size and get a large drink and fries instead of a medium...so I stopped eating fast food.

Boy, I showed THEM!

 

Damn Burger King. MMMM, Burger King.

 

/\ LOL man, a flame broiled whopper sounds good now, too bad that hypocrite burger king employee caused me to stop going out for fast food...curse him and his hypocrisy to good customer service! :shaking fist old man style:

 

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(damn slow SL)

Thanks ****, but really what does this guy think he's going to prove it's the parents fault for just about all messed up kids he needs to sue them.

 

In america, its not the parents fault. Its the medias.

 

In approximate reverse chronological order, it's the fault of;

Violent TV
Violent Moview
the Internets
Marilyn Manson
The news media
Gangsta Rap
Cocaine
Dungeons and Dragons RPG (Paper)
Disco
Weed
"the Man"
Rock & Roll (classic)
Comic Books
Dirty Dancing - Really old old school dirty dancing - like the Charleston or the Lindy Hop
Skirts on women that showed off their ankles

"Won't somebody PLEEEAASSSEE think of the children?!"
- Helen Lovejoy, "the Simpsons"

 

That's a pretty good approximation! (thumbs up)

 

nothing can stop halo....nothing

 

Everytime I see this topic, I start getting angry. Jack Thompson won't like me when I'm angry. KRUSTY SMASH PUNY HUMAN!

 

ive never heard of this. what is it?
this "halo" thing you speak of

 

I think its a game for that new Atari Jaguar System.