Jack Thompson, Florida attorney and anti-video game critic, has a storied history against Take Two Interactive’s games, including an effort to ban and block the sales of the company's games. In October 2006, Take Two returned fire by seeking to have Jack Thompson held in contempt of court and in March, Take Two pre-emptively sued Jack Thompson for his threats. Now, the company and the critic have reached a settlement. Thompson considered it “a huge victory,” adding, “They dropped the contempt matter in state court. I got everything I wanted.”

Thompson is not allowed to sue or threaten to sue to block sale or distribution of any game published by Take Two, nor can he communicate to the company or its partners any accusation that the company committed any wrongdoing by selling its games. Thompson will not be restricted to publically criticizing Take Two’s products, but must make all future contacts with the publisher through its attorneys. In return, Take Two has agreed to drop its lawsuit against Thompson, for which the court hearing was originally set just the day after the settlement.

News source: DailyTech


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Phil1208 on 21 Apr 2007 - 23:27
sure its not that much of a victory, i mean. he didnt manage to block/ban the sale of the their products. he just got them to drop the law suit saving him everything he has :/
(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Doli on 21 Apr 2007 - 23:46
Did you see the picture in the link?



Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by Co_Co on 22 Apr 2007 - 01:57
Whoa, yeah. What's the deal with that? Am I missing something
Quote this comment #2.2 Posted by tydev417 on 22 Apr 2007 - 03:15
The character to the left looks like the main character from Bully and the right is JT. I'm assuming that they're poking fun at the whole media ordeal with the kid from Bully being able to kiss other guys.
Quote this comment #2.3 Posted by Spookie on 22 Apr 2007 - 11:48
tydev has it right, I'm assuming the joke is that Take 2 (being the main character from bully there) and JT are kissing and making up.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by Croquant on 22 Apr 2007 - 02:10
So. JackAss Thompson agrees to STFU and Take Two agrees not to sue him back to the stone age. Sounds good to me.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Weed on 22 Apr 2007 - 14:16
Jack Thompson didn't win anything. He was backed into a corner by Take-Two, and Take-Two basically told him to stfu and they won't sue the hell out of him, and he did stfu.

That's the basics of the story there.

Take-Two Rules.
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by MrCobra on 22 Apr 2007 - 17:42
T2 still should have sued his ass.
Quote this comment #4.2 Posted by +Beastage on 22 Apr 2007 - 21:04
Quote - (MrCobra said @ #4.1)
T2 still should have sued his ass.


Haha I agree
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by macrosslover on 22 Apr 2007 - 16:07
finally this guy got a little bit of scare tactic.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by NightmarE D on 22 Apr 2007 - 21:16
All he did was stop blaming Bully and GTA and quickly went into blaming Counter Strike and Bill Gates.

I really hope Bill Gates decides to do something to him with all the evidence he could get against Thompson.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by Nose Nuggets on 23 Apr 2007 - 18:51
JT needs to let off some steam. 45 minuets plays CS should do the trick.
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