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Nathaniel Birdsong <nbirdsong>

	Targeting video games?	1560 days ago
	I have noticed in my first entry that there are alot of typos. I tend to type things fairly quickly and don't check them afterwards. Ok so Rokcstar games, who makes all of those great Grand Theft Auto games, is in some legal trouble. It seems as though some geeks somewhere have figured out a way to mod the latest entry in the game so that you can see your character having sex with his girlfriends. Because of this, the ESRB has been forced to place an "Adults Only" rating on the game and as a result, Target, Wal-mart, Best Buy, Gamestop etc have pulled the game from their shelves. Rockstar has had to lower their financial goals for the third quarter by $340 million. People are still seeking more legal action against Rockstar and their parent company Take Two. They say that it should have been their responsability to track down and stop these people from making the mods. In the case against Rockstar, they originally programed the game to include sex scenes similar to what people are seeing now. When they dropped the idea, instead of deleting hundreds of thousands of lines of code, they simply wrote that portion completely out of the came. People who have hacked the game are using this programming as a base for their mod. In defense of Rackstar, People hack and change games all the time. The programming that they are using was never meant to be seen by a public audience and if you don't actually change the product that they released you would never experience it. Brilo Pads are used in crack pipes (I don't know how). Police in greensboro tried to tell gas stations they weren't allowed to sell them anymore. People try to sue gun companies because someone used a gun, that they bought ilegally, to commit crimes or murder. Should we hold manufacturers responsible because someone took their product, that was designed for one purpose, and used it for something "evil." Grand Theft Auto is not exactly a wholesome game, but they know their limits. They did not design the game to show these things. Should they be held accountable for someone figuring out a way to change their product?
	posted by Nathaniel Birdsong

3 Comments:

	Eric Munger said...	1560 days ago
	Yes, absolutely. As you should be held accountable for your blog and the comments people write about your blog.
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	Thea Etchells said...	1557 days ago
	Wow, you wrote a LOT! Took me a day to read and even understand what you just wrote. Oh hey, if you haven't gotten the game, we still have a copy at work. Or, so I've heard. Some guy I work with says there's still a copy hidden that we didn't send back still in the stockroom. Shhhhhhhh. Probably not even there but who knows.
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	Peter Birdsong said...	1556 days ago
	Except that (according to your blog) they DID design the game to have those things, and then later dumped the idea after programming was already underway. Again, this isn't anything new. Hackers have been doing this for years. I remember mods were online back in the days of Doom that would change the entire level. The problem: those hackers are using lines of code that already exsist to create sex scenes. And these scenes aren't from scratch and inserted into the code; they were already there in the first place. So who's accountable for that forbidden line of code?
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