Judge clears Bully game release

A follow up to this thread



The full article is available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6054262.stm

The judge would've been on EXTREMELY thin legal/constitutional grounds if he had attempted to pre-emptively halt publication of the game. Even the FCC runs like hell from any whiff of that (which annoys networks to no end because the FCC won't say at all if a particular show or scene will run foul of its standards before the show airs, and after conservative groups get a chance to send enough complaints to let them know what's politically advantageous for Republicans to have fines levied upon).

So it's a laugher that even so, the judge found the content to be completely consistent with community standards. In other words, it's not the game, it's us. We suck too much for the game to come in beneath our collective standards. That gives Thompson no legal ground to stand on whatsoever, even after publication.