The supreme court determined decades ago, that Violence cannot equal Porn. Ergo, this bills premise is flawed, as was seen in Utah where a nearly identical bill died in commite.
More insipid yet is the "Contemporary community Standards", an approach that, to my recolection, has never passed 1st amendment muster. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they tried that with Comics, D&D, rock and roll, and movies. Failed in all counts.
So, as was said above, let me break out the stamp.
"8. "Material" means any book, magazine, newspaper, pamphlet, poster, print, picture, figure, image, description, motion picture film, record, recording tape, CD-ROM disk, Magnetic Disk Memory, Magnetic Tape Memory, video tape, computer software or video game;"
Glad my games come on DVDs.
Ok, for real now: I have less problem with wanting to keep sexual content out of the hands of minors, than the vague sounds "Inappropriate Violence" bit. Once again, if the same standards were applied to movies there'd be a lot more Blockbusters staff being arrested :p
Well, the last two terms could cover a lot... but inventive lawyers could get around it.
Taking GTA: San Andreas (which is on DVD-ROM), the PS2 and X-Box versions should be able to easily argue that they're CONSOLE software, not computer software... and then there's no legal definition for the term video game to my knowledge. What if they borrow Dennis' approach and term themselves "Interactive Adult Entertainment Software" or something?
An inventive lawyer could also argue that with the new HD-DVD, Blu-ray DVD, and Nintendo's optical disks for the Revoultion (and the mini-disks for the GameCube) aren't covered eiher.
Re: Know what will happen.....tollwutigApril 25 2006, 14:05:25 UTC
It would be nice though to see a Governor come back to the Legislature, and say "You know we can't really afford a court battle on this one, it's going to go to court, its probably going to fail in court then we're going to be paying legal fees of both sides after the Industry files for reparations of having to take us to court." So I am going to Veto this.
Re: Know what will happen.....razor5April 25 2006, 14:28:59 UTC
Unfortunately if it passed unanimously in both legislatures the threat of veto override makes it essentially impossible for the guv to veto in the first place due to the political damage it could have.
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Hooah
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More insipid yet is the "Contemporary community Standards", an approach that, to my recolection, has never passed 1st amendment muster. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they tried that with Comics, D&D, rock and roll, and movies. Failed in all counts.
So, as was said above, let me break out the stamp.
UnConstitutional "STAMP"
NEXT!
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Glad my games come on DVDs.
Ok, for real now: I have less problem with wanting to keep sexual content out of the hands of minors, than the vague sounds "Inappropriate Violence" bit. Once again, if the same standards were applied to movies there'd be a lot more Blockbusters staff being arrested :p
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They left that out?!
Ow. Ow my brain.
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Taking GTA: San Andreas (which is on DVD-ROM), the PS2 and X-Box versions should be able to easily argue that they're CONSOLE software, not computer software... and then there's no legal definition for the term video game to my knowledge. What if they borrow Dennis' approach and term themselves "Interactive Adult Entertainment Software" or something?
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Kinda covers almost the entire next gen of games.
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