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the_logos · 07-12-2008, 02:39 PM

You can always be sued and unless it's an absolutely outrageous lawsuit, it won't just be tossed out of court.

Viacom is currently suing YouTube over user-posted content on YouTube's site.

In the American legal system, you can sue someone for virtually anything. Doesn't mean you'll win, but you'd certainly be able to sue someone for that kind of thing.

There are plenty of teens playing MUDs.

PG-13 is a rating system for movies by the MPAA and has no applicability to games. The ESRB rates games and there is a Teen rating, but all games ratings for games that include an online component note that the rating may change during online play (since nobody can control what other users will do). In other words, what users do has no effect on a games' rating at this time.

I'd agree that the OP is overly worried. I'm not aware of any text MUD ever having been successfully sued (or even unsuccessfully) for anything like what he's concerned with. That's not to say it couldn't happen but if someone is going to get sued for sex talk over a network it's a lot more likely to be a big juicy target like Facebook or WoW.

07-12-2008, 02:39 PM	#3
the_logos Legend Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mill Valley, California Posts: 2,305	Re: The PG13 Dilemma You can always be sued and unless it's an absolutely outrageous lawsuit, it won't just be tossed out of court. Viacom is currently suing YouTube over user-posted content on YouTube's site. In the American legal system, you can sue someone for virtually anything. Doesn't mean you'll win, but you'd certainly be able to sue someone for that kind of thing. There are plenty of teens playing MUDs. PG-13 is a rating system for movies by the MPAA and has no applicability to games. The ESRB rates games and there is a Teen rating, but all games ratings for games that include an online component note that the rating may change during online play (since nobody can control what other users will do). In other words, what users do has no effect on a games' rating at this time. I'd agree that the OP is overly worried. I'm not aware of any text MUD ever having been successfully sued (or even unsuccessfully) for anything like what he's concerned with. That's not to say it couldn't happen but if someone is going to get sued for sex talk over a network it's a lot more likely to be a big juicy target like Facebook or WoW.