[Luvian]

Originally Posted by Yorick I don't think it's an issue of blanketly banning the game, but perhaps declaring culpability where provable situations are beyond a doubt? Dunno... If that ever happened that would create some self-regulation pretty quickly I'd say. At least we need to create bigger hurdles for mass distributing games that have the protagonist rewarded for illegal acts. Banning or limiting public advertising, like we do for cigarettes would be one such idea for example.

I think this post provide a nice opportunity for an aside.

Culpability. I'd be curious to know what you all think of the Hot Coffee debacle. Were Rockstar responsible for it? Should they be accountable for it? What were their intentions?

In my opinion, Rockstar wasn't responsible for it. I don't think they even had any intention for anyone to ever see this.

Why? Because the files were unaccessible without hacking the game. Hacking is a crime. Someone had to break the law and reverse engineer the game, dig in where no one is supposed to see, find these files and them illegally modify the main executable to activate that content.

This is the same to me as someone breaking into your house, breaking your safe and stealing your home made naughty tapes, broadcasting them illegally at the Superbowl, and then accusing you of public indecency. Someone broke into your house, broke your security, stole from you, broadcast private data, and yet you are the bad guy?

Originally Posted by Cerek ...the industry chooses NOT to regulate themselves, so the government has to create some type of regulation.

No Cerek. Your government has decided it does NOT have to regulate this. It has even decided doing so would be unconstitutional, they have decided that the rating system is enough, that the industry is doing enough to regulate itself. Your Judges have spoken. The people who's whole education, whole career is based on interpreting the constitution have ruled that doing so would be unconstitutional.