A while back I posted a small post on here lambasting a visually disabled gamer for suing Sony Online Entertainment, who he alleged violated the ADA by making it difficult for him to play Everquest 2. As I argued, the Internet (and internet games) is/are not a “public accommodation”, and thus is/are not subject to the ADA. Well, it looks like someone agrees with me. The presiding judge for Stern v. Sony Corp. dismissed the case, basically saying that it did not violate the ADA, as the online game was not a place of public accommodation, and Sony had no actual system in place to prohibit disabled people from accessing the game (that is to say, there was no screening involved). You can read the entire PDF here.
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