Lawsuit is the first word spit out after a car accident, or after someone burns themselves with boiling coffee that didn't include a flashing warning label, or after someone's heart takes a small vacation following the twenty years of daily cheeseburgers. Americans love to sue: Disgruntled customers sue corporations, one kid sues another for calling him a mean names, and corporate lawyers hand one other court summons as casually as Christmas cards.
So it should be no surprise that the videogame industry is plagued by legal battles -- many of which have shaped companies and games as we know them. And it's hardly a new trend; the justice system has a long relationship with videogames, stretching back to the medium's infancy.
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Dec 19, 2005, 02:58 AM
