Rockstar Pays Under $30,000 to Offended Customers In 'Hot Coffee' Lawsuit Settlement

Sorry Bean, but fuck lawyers, fuck them all.

What I don't understand is you buy a game called Grand Theft Auto where you can murder cops, hookers (after screwing them in your car), a ton of sexual content already there, harsh language, and whatever else that's deemed "MATURE CONTENT". And yet, these people are offended by "hot coffee"? Anyone else see something totally wrong with this?

The hot coffee scene required a certain level of tampering with the product, an intrusion that is, within this field, can be qualified as extremely light (changing a single bit which seems to have been part of some flags variable).

But I do wonder, just how obscure must be the information leading to a breach of the game's rating? Let's put it this way, how many bits would I actually have to hack/add in order to unlock whatever unrated, secret content I hid in there before this is no longer a valid case? I mean, if it takes several hundred kilobytes of code, I think it's pretty obvious the mod itself can be blamed for much what you see, instead of the game. But where do you draw the line? A quantitative x amount of bytes limit won't cut it, perhaps all that matters is that some form of the content, programmatically wise, ships with the game. Certainly you shouldn't be able to make a case out of undisturbed, abandoned art assets alone, considering the problem is so muddy I could perhaps debate all forms of pornography possible in the Universe are found within the game's files provided you implement the correct interpretation of its resource format files...

If a 'x amount of bytes until it no longer is illegal' problem won't cut it here, but perhaps rephrasing it as "hacking only unlocks, doesn't actually comprise this behaviour" might get you somewhere, but aren't we falling for the same problem, again? Couldn't the bits needed to flag and start the program be placed inside a memory block that once interpreted as a function returns precisely the offending behaviour? Wouldn't you effectively need to "fill in the blanks" when a pointer points both to a say, bool flag and part of a unf unf sex animation function?

Having a conditional flag is the minimal approach to guilt, in this case, but in all truthfulness, the content is impossible to access without tampering. One bit may have been dealt with, but couldn't you, hypothetically, create a procedural image of fluffy unicorns through code that when a certain bit is modified, accidentally draws something akin to baby rape? Is the original author then committing a crime?

This is exactly what I hate of politics and law, semantics always leave a problem of threshold.

This is BS. People had to go out of their way and intentionally mod the game to see the content. It'd be like someone walking into a 24 hour newstand and taking a playboy out of the plastic sleeve then getting offended by the stuff inside. Completely asinine.

I wonder how much Hillary will get?

I think the headline misplaced the quotations marks:
"Rockstar Pays Under $30,000 to 'Offended' Customers In Hot Coffee Lawsuit Settlement"

I'd like to take this time to put forth my opinion as articulate as I can regarding this situation and the parties involved in making claims.

FUCKING CUNTS.

Sorry, let me rephrase that.

FUCKING MONEY GRABBING CUNTS.

Thank you for your time.

Seriously though, they used whatever tool was available and most likely pirated the game just to see the "hot coffee" content, its nobodys fault but theirs. I demand money from them for wasting Rockstars time when they could have spent money making a better game that went to their lawyers to sort out this absolute fucking waste of time.

good on rockstar. sure they wasted 1.3m, but the payout to the whiny fags was insignificant and that should be applauded.

"We can't guess as to why now, several years later, people care or don't care. The merits of the case were clear."

I could guess that nobody really cared in the first place.

of the millions of copies sold, less than 3000 people were offended. A case with merit my ass.

The total cost for Hot Coffee was much higher because Take Two had to recall all the mislabeled games out on store shelves and send new ones through certification, printing, distribution and stocking.

Didn't they estimate the cost of that whole procedure in the millions?

People are still bitching about this? What the hell? Why would they even give them a penny? You have to alter your game to see it, so pretty much their offending themselves?

Ugh. This disgusts me.

more like Seth R. LOSER!

No love lost for self-serving lawyers.

Wow, whoever says they got offended by this is an idiot.
I can't believe how fucked people are