[URL=http://kotaku.com/gaming/hal-halpin/halpin-on-texas-teen-counterstrike-case-257686.php]Kotaku[/URL]

Hal Halpin took a moment out of his busy schedule of presiding over the ECA (Entertainment Consumers Association) to weigh in on the situation in Texas where a high school boy was arrested and ejected from his school for creating a Counterstrike map in its likeness.

Paul Hwang's only crime was bad timing. He had the misfortune of uploading his mod during a period of time in which the nation was, perhaps unduly, made sensitive about the supposed link between violence and video games.

That really sums it up quite nicely. Had this been a month ago and had certain people not made a point of publicly blaming the Virginia Tech shootings on video games without any concrete evidence, perhaps this might not have happened. Check out Game Politics for the full text of Halpin's statement on the matter.