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Is Video Game Addiction an Actionable Claim in the US?




By Sébastien ODDOS member of a.d.c.i. - Date : 2010-09-01 - Country : ETATS-UNIS - Subject : Litigations - IP Field : Information Technology


A Hawaii man (Smallwood) who sued a video game company over his extreme addiction to the computer game Lineage II has managed to defeat the end-user agreement that said he had no right to bring the case to court.

One provision of the End User License Agreement specifically stated that lawsuits could only be brought in Texas state court in Travis County (where the video game company NC Interactive is located). Another section read:

12. Limitation of Liability * * * IN NO EVENT SHALL NC INTERACTIVE . . . BE LIABLE TO YOU OR TO ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES . . . REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY (INCLUDING [...]

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