Not any sort of official or legal one, mind you, but he did indeed send me the following this morning:
Subject: You have one hour to cease and desist
http://www.myextralife.com/?p=6464
Included in his email were his address, phone numbers, and other personal contact info that I will not be posting here. (It’s all junk that can be found online in various places anyway, but I won’t stoop to posting his personal contact stuff here.)
I completely assumed that this was one of you jokers trying to be funny and mess with me. I was sure of it. In my mind, I said, “Well, someone went online, searched some old Joystiq or Kotaku posts and found all that info, and tried to spoof me with it.” There was one little problem. Did a deep check on the email address, and traced it back to ISP, location, etc. The email header was not faked, the data is real, and this indeed came from his very one personal email address. I won’t tell you the address itself, but I will tell you that he has the single most ironic email address I think I have ever laid eyes on. Anyway…
When I was unsure of who it was, I replied with the following:
If you are the real Jack Thompson, then I should be getting a LEGAL cease and desist letter from you, not some anonymous comment in a blog post. So since I did not get that. And since I don’t think you are him at all, then the answer is no.
Nice try though…made me giggle.
Scott
To which he then replied:
Ok, your mistake. Laugh your ass off
With the missing punctuation and everything. At that point, keep in mind, I still figured this was a faker, a hypothesis reinforced by the last reply, given its Jr. High execution. That’s when I started to dig around for email confirmation, just to be sure.
Now that I know it’s him, I have had to make a decision: Since anyone with half a mind knows he has no legal basis to say anything to me about anything, especially something as dumb and satirical as a Photoshop Contest, it becomes more the matter of do I respond at all, say anything, do this post, etc. and give him the additional exposure he seems to crave among the gaming crowd, or do I NOT feed the ultimate internet troll and let is slide.
I decided to post something for a simple reason. Whenever things like this go down, I have a sincere need and desire to share it with the EL community. So that is just what I am doing here.
I have some questions: Why would a person sit in front of a computer and search Technorati or other engines all day to see if people are saying your name? Why would a person care about a photoshop contest to the degree that they make threats to meet that care? Why would a Florida bar certified lawyer even bother with our stupid little mom and pop shop here? Why would that self same lawyer tell me to “laugh my ass off”, or post a comment in a blog, or any of these things and still expect people to consider him a professional in field of law?
Do ALL lawyers do this sort of thing? Just strip away your problems with his stance and actions with the video game industry for a moment, and just for a minute, consider the kind of personality it takes to be driven to such ends as these. To post a cease and desist notice in blog comments? To email the cartoonist and do the same? To assume that I am no smarter than a under-developed brick with mild retardation? It, in all honesty, feels like a weird dream I am not allowed to understand.
So let’s just touch on the core issue here: I have run yet another Photoshop contest, as I am prone to do every few weeks, have chosen a topic to reflect some recent news dealing with Jack, you guys are working away on your entries….and through all this, somehow I have warranted the time and worry of Jack Thompson. It boggles. It really does. Just pray you never see Jack in political office, lest each and every political cartoonist be sued daily.
I could go on for pages about this, but I think this is just about all the exposure I want to give him and his twisted need for recognition. I just find the whole thing strange, surreal, funny, sad, enlightening, retarded, and lame all at the same time. There should be a word for this sort of thing, but I can think of none.
PS: You’d think he would have a harder time with me back in January.
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It just reminds me of when he contacted the Penny Arcade people years ago. “pissant” *snikkers to himself* “he must be an incredible lawyer”
Link to a post about the whole ordeal here
http://www.topofcool.com/index.php/2005/10/17/im-so-tired-of-jack-thompson/
Look at it this way, you’re now big enough to be recognized as a danger to him.
And maybe he forgot to take his pills…. for the past 10 years.
Since nothing bad can happen with this lame letter Scott, we can only hope posts like these will one day show the blind world that this man is indeed insane… once they figure out how to navigate the series of tubes, mind you
Personally, I think it’s awesome…nothing like being perceived as a threat. It’s quite complimentary. All I ask is that you keep us posted on the latest. And I hope the increased site-traffic results in increased sponsor revenue, making you more valuable to your sponsors. All he’s doing is providing you publicity and making you profitable, without you having to lift a finger. Awesome!
I say, don’t listen to Jack. There’s no reason to be afraid of him anymore.
Jack, honey, stop with all this foolnishness and come home…
…before I woop your ass…
…again.
CHECK OUT ONGOING PHOTOSHOPS OF JACK HERE:
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ROFL..
Scott’s been “Jack Thompsoned”, that is what i’m going to call it. being Jack Thompsond..
this is almost oo good to be true. he has no grounds for the C&D whatsoever, as blogs are recognized under de freedom of speech, he should spend less time googling his name, and more time googling the additions to the books of law he threatens everybody with…
what a turd.
Cheers to scott for keeping the contest!
I think he ran our of jergens…
This guy is right up there with Bin Laden telling Americans to convert to Islam. IDIOT!
I think he ran out of jergens…
small joke corrected
Ever hear of Google Alerts
Jack’s just looking for publicity. He looks for mentions of his name, and pokes his head in just to make double-sure that nobody’s actually forgotten about him.
If he really wants to stay in the spotlight, I think he should actually take on some REAL clients! Hey, I hear OJ might be in need of some representation sometime soon…
Scott;
Absolutely keep going with the Photoshop contest. J.T. will keep embarrassing himself trying to get you to stop, which will only get more and more attention to the site.
Time to use batshit-crazy to your advantage; let Jack drive as many people to the site as he can. Then send him a fruit basket by way of thanks!
Jack Thompson tried sueing Kotaku for having a section that said “Dissecting Jack’s Lies”
Scott,
No, all lawyers are not like that. Keep up the good work on the comic.
–Mark
http://lawofthegame.blogspot.com
I think you should get some sort of certificate identifying you as a “Survivor” of Mr. Thompsons wrath. Something like…
“Honorary certificate of achievement for courage and honor in the line of fire. Official Jack Thompson Survivor. — Sept, 2007″
or something to that effect.
Who doesn’t set up a Google Alert with their own name and pseudonyms as the search terms?
20 bucks say Mike (a ton of posts above mine) is going postal next year.
Oh, and 20 more say Scott will receive an invoice from Jack Thompson for advertisement fees soon.
I’m surprised no one has tried to sue he who shall not be named for harassing all these poor website owners.. He trolls about the internet and says that people need to stop practicing freedom of speech..bollocks to him I say, lets see him try and bull that rubbish across the pond..
I like jackin off guys named jack at the jack in the box.
I bet that’s where “jacking off” came from >.>
People like this take too long to die, and they die hard. I think it’s better if people just ignore him. Then again, who CAN ignore him >.> He just acts too obviously stupid >.>
You know you’ve made it when you get a take down notice, even a poorly punctuated non legal one, from JT.
Honestly, I hope you keep this out of the media, it would just give this nut job a reason to show his face on TV.
Oh and JT there will always be something out there that kids are getting into that they shouldn’t be getting into. If you remove video games from the equation, the hole will just be filled by something else, like movies, porn, or even house owned firearms. What really matters are parents interested enough in their own child’s life to keep them away from things that are too mature for them. But you wouldn’t know anything about that would you? Sending your own 15 year old to purchase a copy of BioShock.
swedens on your side if it comes to that ^^
I am so insanely jealous.
I have been poking at Jack for YEARS now and haven’t gotten as much as a sniffle of disdain from the whack-job – and I even posted a superhero pic of him as Captain Douchebag once!
Way. To. Go.
He is our Weird Al – meaning; they say you haven’t made it in the record industry until Weird Al parodies one of your songs, you TRULY haven’t made it in the online world until Jack Thompson threatens to take away your birthday.
KUDOS Sir. KUDOS.
Hey Scott! Next time a “Jack Thompson” send you a bullshit comment, point out that his name is “John Bruce Thompson” and therefore mocking Jack Thompson is legal because it’s an ALIAS.
If that doesn’t work, send him to my website. He’ll be too busy trying to get me to take down the libel to worry about a webcomic artist.
Um, what?
Man, I wish he’d just run out of funds so he can just get kicked out to the curb.
Go away, Jack. Just go away.
is it just me or does his signature on the pdf above look a whole lot like the word “idiot”?
i mean, how ironic is that?
jack thompson…idiot.
personally, i was thinking more along the lines of him being a “flaming gasoline and napalm douche”, but idiot works too.
especially if he’s attributing that moniker to himself.
entry’d
its not done amazingly but I thought it was funny, Im probably too late anyways…
[IMG]http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u178/portoparty/battlejack.jpg[/IMG]
sorry better link:
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u178/portoparty/battlejack.jpg
DAMNIT OMG wron thread lol!
/embarressed
LOL
I like cheese
Do the sexy gnome dance for me!
Unfortunatly there are individuals that are simply waiting on an email of this kind to give them permission to assassinate the poor bugger Jack Thompson. If he were smart, he would bow down to those whole control his life. I don’t mean the living portion of his life, but the digitial assassination of all that he loves and cares about. Oops, Jack Thomspon is suddely married to three women… oops, jack finds child porn on his system and is arrested or at least investigated.
This is not me, but I have heard people discussing it and in great detail. You would be supprised what some people have in their possession.
If Jack Thompson reads this. Be warned. You are messing with the people who control your information. If you have half a brain (you are a lawyer afterall) you would realize it’s not the “Games” that makes people violent and knowledgable enough to pull something like that off. It’s the freedom of information. And that’s something you can never beat. By trying to mess with it, you become a target. Lets hope you don’t become a martier… for your sake.
But again, this is nothing to do with me. I’m just letting people know what’s out there. I’m not one of those sick people with too much time on their hands willing to change someone elses information and modify federal documents.
When Jack passed his bar exam, a big surprise for all of us, he had to think of something to do. With all the competition in the other litigant’s niches, who knows? …maybe “ambulance chasing” was full up that day or something. Anyway, with law-school behind him, Jack had find a job. …and that was when Jack noticed that Video games were the one of the few economic niches that were still earning money. Hey, even in lean times, people buy video games.
It’s simple economics; …big surprise! Looters only survive where there is something to loot, and in the final analysis, that one fact may explain Jack’s real interest in the video game industry.
See what Jack is up to now, visit http://jackingoff.tv
I agree with Jack Thompson that kids shouldn’t be allowed to buy violent video games or watch violent movies, nor read pornography. However, this is something that’s up to the parents, not a lunatic who have no idea what he’s talking about. What scares me is that people in the mainstream media listen to him. However his statements about video games actually being “murder stimulations” do well in the major news networks because if you scare people, they will watch your show. I therefore encourage you all to do what you can to bring this lunatic called Jack Thompson down before he actually manages to do something. What he wants to do is not a bad thing, but the means he uses is like trying to crack a walnut with a battle tank.
Keep on the good fight Jack,we will win some day,amen.
Games companies are run by some pretty clever folks.
Did they invent this JT character to assassinate the credibility of the Anti-Violence crowd?
If not, I’m sure they love him anyway.
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I feel sorry for Jack Thompson’s kids. Here’s a model of what JT is most likely like to his kids:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=54X2YAXC-1M
Erik the Viking, that’s why Dr.Phil makes alot of sense. He basically said that. Video games are violent but it’s up to the parents to be responsible.