Take-Two Nearing GTA IV Ad Settlement with Chicago Bus Company
Take-Two Nearing GTA IV Ad Settlement with Chicago Bus Company
September 30, 2008
A settlement has apparently been reached between Grand Theft Auto IV publisher Take-Two Interactive and the Chicago Transit Authority over the agency's removal of ads for the controversial game from its vehicles and facilities.
GamePolitics readers may recall that during GTA IV's launch week, the CTA yanked the ads following a Fox News report which sought to relate the popular crime game to a rash of local shootings.
Take-Two filed suit shortly thereafter, accusing the CTA and sales agent Titan Outdoor, LLC with breaching a $300,000 contract. A document filed by the defendants with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan last week indicates that a settlement is imminent, although no details are provided.
Take-Two declined to comment on the case.
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Posted 11/20/08 at 09:45pm
Brokenscope: The DTV transition doesn't effect the videogame industry.
Brokenscope: The DTV transition doesn't effect the videogame industry.
Posted 11/20/08 at 09:31pm
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Posted 11/20/08 at 09:22pm
PHX Corp: sigh, nevermind
PHX Corp: sigh, nevermind
Posted 11/20/08 at 09:16pm
sqlrob: @PHX: What does DTV have to do with video games? A console doesn't care, and most people are on cable
sqlrob: @PHX: What does DTV have to do with video games? A console doesn't care, and most people are on cable
Posted 11/20/08 at 09:16pm
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sqlrob: @d.vel.oper: What protocol? Depends a lot on what you're doing. I think it's 10X+ on CIFS
Posted 11/20/08 at 08:45pm
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PHX Corp: Just asking anyway since we have 88 days til analog has finally bitten the dust
Posted 11/20/08 at 08:42pm
PHX Corp: Do you think the Video game industry is already aware of the DTV transistion
PHX Corp: Do you think the Video game industry is already aware of the DTV transistion
Posted 11/20/08 at 07:18pm
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Posted 11/20/08 at 07:14pm
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Posted 11/20/08 at 07:13pm
Shadow D. Darkman: Hmm...
Shadow D. Darkman: Hmm...
Posted 11/20/08 at 07:06pm
d.vel.oper: @sql: Ah. How's the performance? Looking for a quantifiable sum, btw.
d.vel.oper: @sql: Ah. How's the performance? Looking for a quantifiable sum, btw.
Posted 11/20/08 at 07:03pm
sqlrob: when it hits the server. The server doesn't know anything happened
sqlrob: when it hits the server. The server doesn't know anything happened
Posted 11/20/08 at 07:03pm
sqlrob: @d: The endpoint doesn't see the change. It's compressed (and other optimizations) between client and hardware, then normal
sqlrob: @d: The endpoint doesn't see the change. It's compressed (and other optimizations) between client and hardware, then normal
Posted 11/20/08 at 07:01pm
d.vel.oper: @sql: I'm assuming we're talking about more here than just endpoint compression?
d.vel.oper: @sql: I'm assuming we're talking about more here than just endpoint compression?
Posted 11/20/08 at 06:59pm
sqlrob: ..., needs the proper network backend hardware for most features, but not all
sqlrob: ..., needs the proper network backend hardware for most features, but not all
Posted 11/20/08 at 06:59pm
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Posted 11/20/08 at 06:58pm
sqlrob: @d.vel.oper: I also don't want to spam. It's a WAN accelerator, runs under Windows and accelerates network traffic
sqlrob: @d.vel.oper: I also don't want to spam. It's a WAN accelerator, runs under Windows and accelerates network traffic
Posted 11/20/08 at 06:56pm
d.vel.oper: @sqlrob: What product(s) do you actually work on, if you're not all NDAized, that is.
d.vel.oper: @sqlrob: What product(s) do you actually work on, if you're not all NDAized, that is.
Posted 11/20/08 at 06:56pm
PHX Corp: If things go well the Republicans may have to go libertaian if all else fails
PHX Corp: If things go well the Republicans may have to go libertaian if all else fails
Posted 11/20/08 at 06:55pm
sqlrob: @d.vel.oper: I was also part of an acquisition, I originally did VPN work
sqlrob: @d.vel.oper: I was also part of an acquisition, I originally did VPN work
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It would not surprise me at all if the Transit authority agrees to allow the use of edited ads, Take Two submits the very same ads, and they get accepted
The good old tried-and-tested Hitchcock approach to editing 'controversial' content.
Could you enlighten me on what the Hitchcock approach is, I've never heard of it before.
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When he made Psycho, he was forced by the ratings body at the time in America to make edits to the shower murder. He said he made the cuts, resubmitted exactly the same film, and it got passed with no problems.
It's actually a fair bit older than that, all the way to the 18th century. The first recorded event is by Alexander Pope who had done a translation of the Illiad. The Earl of Halifax suggested Pope rewrite several passages. Pope went away for a few months, came back and read the new passages, with the earl heartily approving them. The catch is there were no changes.
Odds are, the technique is even older.
Exactly why did Take Two wait until now for this?
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Legal stuff takes a long time. I'd imagine this has been in the works for months.
-Gray17
And thanks to the nature of the private settlement, both parties will decline to comment to the media, no doubt. I guess that'll probably mean that Take Two had a clear-cut breach-of-contract case and the CTA opted to negotiate a settlement of some amount rather than go to court.