Violent video games law or whatever.

[Cure]

http://action.theeca.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1781

Personally I don't understand much about this, even when looking it up. The legal jargon and whatnot goes over my head, admittedly.

This is to apparently ban the sales of violent games to minors, but that's the part that confuses me. Most places I know already check for ID when selling M rated games, but it's more than that, I guess. All I know is that it's causing a big ruckus and I'd like to know what you all think.

[XERO]

If they're gonna do that to 'M' rated videogames, what's to stop them from doing the same to 'R' rated movies?

Being in the gamer community, it sucks that they're going for this, and it's proof that nothing is free in this country, especially freedom itself. This is gonna rock the boundaries for sure if it's successful.

BTW, seeing the name 'Schwarzenegger' in there made me chuckle.

[Jester]

If they're gonna do that to 'M' rated videogames, what's to stop them from doing the same to 'R' rated movies?
They kinda do. I know I've been "carded" for buying an R rated movie.

EDIT: Never mind

[Spitfire]

From what I can tell they basically want to have the right to censor and ban videos games if they please. Kind of like Australia does now. They can order a company to release a version with all the blood removed or ban it if they see no way to censor it. This would most likely be the end to any GTA style games, at least ones that aren't heavily censored, and a lot of realistic shooters would go down as well. Blood and gore aren't a big deal in games but I think it's a little silly to go this far.

Problem is even if they card people they know kids are still getting these games. What did you do when someone said you weren't old enough to buy a M rated game or go to a rated R movie? Found someone who was. My parents always bought me the M rated games or took me to the rated R movies.

Thing is though with movies that are X rated they can stop kids from going in because even if an adult buys the ticket the kid can't use it. AO games can still be bought by adults and given to kids so the rating is completely pointless. While on the subject there's plenty of DVDs that go unrated because once it hits DVD it's a free market and the MPAA doesn't have to approve it.

I'd be surprised if this goes though. If it somehow does though we can all just import out games from Canada assuming they don't follow along.

EDIT: So according to this article I misinterpreted what it says.
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_16486866

They really just want to make it illegal for minors to buy M rated games but everyone already treats it like it is. Passing the law is merely putting it on paper and stopping the small amount of people who do. I doubt this would effect games like banning. If 80% of stores already refuse to sell M rated games to minors then obviously it hasn't effected sales.