Posted Jul 24, 2006 at 11:25AM by Ernest G. Listed in: News Tags: FTC, Hot Coffee mod
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FTC


The Federal Trade Commission decided against imposing fines or taking other punitive actions against Take Two Interactive and Rockstar games after an exhaustive investigation into the "hot coffee" mod led to a settlement agreement between the FTC and Take Two instead of further charges.

The new agreement requires the two companies to "establish, implement and maintain a comprehensive system reasonably designed to ensure that all content in an electronic game is considered and reviewed in preparing submissions to a rating authority."

The agreement also states that Rockstar and Take Two must clearly disclose all pertinent ratings information about a game on the outside of the game's packaging. In the event that Rockstar or Take Two fails to meet the conditions they agreed to in the settlement with the FTC, they will be fined $11,000 per incident.

Maybe this situation has something to do with Rockstar Games' decision to release a ping- pong (or table tennis) game instead of yet another mega-popular violent shoot 'em up! All jokes aside, both sides seem to want to claim victory in the case and both sides seem ready to move on with their lives.

The ruling was followed by a 30 day period where politicians and the public alike voiced their disapproval about the agreement. Now that the debate is over and the settlement has been ratified, it is unlikely that Rockstar or Take Two will ever face any further prosecution over the hot coffee issue.


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   by ayrkain - 2006-07-24
 » Good, but...

Yeah, but wasn't Jack Thompson trying to sic the SEC on them or something? Did anything come of that?

   by liquidtenmillion (Unregistered) - 2006-07-24
 » There is a hot coffee mod for PSP?

Oh wait, no there is not. GTFO my PSP sections, for this isn't a PSP related news article.

   by dave (Unregistered) - 2006-07-24
 » gay

i love how they go crazy when something is too sexy or stuff like that but when it comes to violence they are alright with it and dont even care.

   by liquidtenmillion (Unregistered) - 2006-07-24
 » What a damn weird coincidence.

I love it how people use "gay" as an insult, instead of saying specifically what is wrong with something.

Ahhh to be 13 again....

   by z3rb - 2006-07-24
 » digg

http://digg.com/gaming_news/FTC_End_Hot_Coffee_Investigation

   by hmmm (Unregistered) - 2006-07-24
 » how?

how do i do the hot coffe in ps2... anyone?>

   by genuineparts (Unregistered) - 2006-07-24
 » OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's SECKS in an adult rated (at least its rated 18+ in Austria) GAME!!!!! How Dare!!!

   by Anonymous Coward Who Really Has An Account (Unregistered) - 2006-07-24
 » Wow!

This is DUMMY old!!!! At least I'm glad that Rockstar/Take-Two are finally left alone and will hopefully keep continuing on making their games.

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   by RoccStarr (Unregistered) - 2006-07-24
 » WTF

*****in ***** hilary clinton for blowing this ***** up i bet if she just shut the ***** up about this then this whole thing wouldnt have gone out of control its a game rated m for mature and the characters arent even nude and its just dumbass america as usual what the ***** you care about GTA with a little sex in it and you peeps are at war with islamic extremists oh and they minus well throw all the regulation ***** on the sims games if this ***** is so bad i mean come the ***** on its a *****ing game rated for 17+ if your a parent and you allow your child under 17 to view content in an m game then dont complain if you see things that are for suited for 17+year old people and if you dont know what sex is when your atleast 14 i dont know what school you go to or what kind of parents you have cus when i was in middle school they had sex ed classes. Oh and if your one of those parents who didnt let their child participate in sex ed class and you bought them the GTA game then wtf is wrong with you stupid ameriCANTS these days.

   by WTF (Unregistered) - 2006-07-24
 » SIMS

yea if GTA hotcoffe MOD freaking MOD which means you need the mod to enable it then why not throw a lawsuit on *****ing SIMS games they feature nude character mods and ***** so why not give them a law suit.

   by Hu (Unregistered) - 2006-07-24
 » READ!

This is how neo-con America runs. Keep America busy among issues like gay marriage, freedom of speech or if anything or sex-related scandals (ranges from video games to presidents) and away from the mass thuggery and the web of lies.

   by ADePSP (Unregistered) - 2006-07-24
 » Great Decision

I bet Jack Thompson is furious... :D

   by HenshinMijin (Unregistered) - 2006-07-24
 » Ok But....

What does this have to do with the Nintendo DS?

fo shizzle
~K Dizzle

   by your mom (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » idiot............

13. » Ok But....

What does this have to do with the Nintendo DS?
________________________________________________
nothing.......this is a PSP site

   by aliasneo - 2006-07-25
 » Is this still going on?

It's been over a year and I'm apalled at how America's beurocratic system just won't let this go. I mean seriously, it's just a really bad, homourous, polygonal, mini-sexgame. The only people that could buy the game were 18 or 17 year olds in the first place and God forbid if they never saw any pr0n up until that point.

And that hotcoffee is definately not hard on material. You know what's hard on material? Half the videos I see on MTV in raw daytime television. Well that's my rant, just leave our favourite game developers alone you neo-cons =[

   by mother****in BOB (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » idiots....

14. » idiot............

13. » Ok But....

What does this have to do with the Nintendo DS?
________________________________________________
nothing.......this is a PSP site
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check ds.qj.net, it's there too... ****in dummy...

   by Soma (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » @9 Roccstar

I agree with you completely about how hilary clinton made a huge deal out of the whole issue and it got out of hand. But honestly, dont be a hypocrite. You youself are saying americans are stupid yet you said "islamic extremeists". Heres an idea. Stop watching FOX News, because its a disgrace to this country.



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