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FTC Ends Hot Coffee Investigation

Posted Jul 24, 2006 at 6:25AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: News Tags: FTC, Hot Coffee mod, Rockstar, settlement, Tennis

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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*****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.

# SIMS — Guest 2006-07-24 09:25

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.

# READ! — Guest 2006-07-24 09:27

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.

# Great Decision — Guest 2006-07-24 10:04

I bet Jack Thompson is furious...

# Ok But.... — Guest 2006-07-24 17:48

What does this have to do with the Nintendo DS?

fo shizzle

~K Dizzle

# idiot............ — Guest 2006-07-25 04:45

13. » Ok But....

What does this have to do with the Nintendo DS?

_______________ _______________ _______________ ___

nothing.......this is a PSP site

# Is this still going on? — aliasneo 2006-07-25 06:00

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 =[

# idiots.... — Guest 2006-07-25 07:32

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...

# @9 Roccstar — Guest 2006-07-25 10:17

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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