More on the Hot Coffee Scandal: Assemblyman Yee talks Hot Coffee

[aresef]

Yee should be Zelled out of the party. This man has lost his mind.

And Gamespot seems to be one of the few places actually doing unbiased reporting on this.


http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/15/news_6129209.html

In early June, mere days after the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas hit store shelves, word surfaced of a user-designed mod that allowed players to enjoy a sexually explicit mini-game at the point of the game where the main character enters his girlfriend's house "for coffee." Dubbed "Hot Coffee," the mod caused a stir in gaming circles, but went largely unnoticed by the mainstream. Unnoticed until last week, that is, when California Assemblyman Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) cited the Hot Coffee mod as he lambasted the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) for not giving San Andreas an AO for Adults Only rating.

The following day, the ESRB launched an investigation into whether the sexually explicit content was in the game waiting to be unlocked or added in by the mod. As the week wore on, Hot Coffee returned time and again to the headlines. The National Institute on Media and the Family made its position clear. The Australian government's Office of Film and Literature Classification started its own investigation into the mod.

Rockstar Games eventually came forward with its side of the story, balking at responsibility for the mod and calling it the work of "a determined group of hackers." And finally, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) yesterday proposed legislation to fine retailers caught selling violent and sexually explicit games to minors, and called on the Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation to determine the source of the "graphic pornographic and violent content" appearing in the game.

[livinginphotographs]

1. Once again with these guys....

With them, the violence is no problem, but as soon as sex enters the equation, it's the end of the world. :eyes:

[merwin]

2. Bottom line is that the person who wrote the file that modifies GTA did

so illegally, since the copyright agreement that you "sign" by installing the game says that you cannot modify the game.

Therefore, anything that anyone else does with the game after it has been modified is not the fault of the makers of the game.

[darkism]

3. So let me get this straight...

...poorly-done electronic sex (video @ http://games.slashdot.org/games/05/07/08/1955201.shtml?tid=10) is OH NOES SO AWFUL PLEASE SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!, but carjacking, bombing, sniping and general massacring is a-OK?

The GTA franchise started to go downhill when it went 3D, anyway.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

4. these politicians do not know what they are talking about

they need to get their facts straight. they are talking about something they do not begin to even understand.

[DefenseLawyer]

5. Does anyone know

if Sista Soulja has been spotted playing this video game?

[blue northern]

6. Rockstar couldn't have asked for more publicity

And since this was a hack, they can't be held liable.

[aresef]

7. I don't think the politicians care

They're out for blood.

[aresef]

8. An ESA fact sheet from a while back that debunks demographic myths

http://www.theesa.com/files/2005EssentialFacts.pdf