WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 2005--The computer and video game industry will file suit in Michigan asking that the state's new video game law be overturned, the Entertainment Software Association announced today. Similar laws were previously found unconstitutional and thrown out in St. Louis, Indianapolis, and Washington State, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
"If this law is implemented, it will not only limit First Amendment rights for Michigan's residents, but, by virtue of its vagueness, it will also create a huge amount of confusion for Michigan's retailers, parents, and video game developers," said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the ESA, the trade group representing U.S. computer and video game publishers. "I'm confident the court will affirm our position given the rulings on similar statutes in other jurisdictions; indeed, the facts, the science, the law, and the U.S. Constitution have not changed since those decisions were handed down."
"Both the “left” and the “right” pretend they have the answer, but they are mere flippers on the same thalidomide baby, and the truth is that neither side has a clue."
- Jim Goad
Remember the sweet, good ol' days before video games...
will the police have sting operations like they do with alcohol? -
pay some 15-yr-old to go in and buy an AO game, then rush in and arrest the cashier? Tonite on America's Most Wanted.
Or worse...I'm waiting for the first parent to go to jail because they let the neighbor's kid play GTA with their kid.
Next up: Nick and Norm ads linking marijuana videogames to Terrorism.
"You know, money from videogames goes to buy guns for Al Queda."
"Really?"
"It's a F.A.C.T."
will the police have sting operations like they do with alcohol? -Most definitely yes because it generates revenue for the local goverments from the fines imposed.
It's funny because Central Mich Uni students have seen massive hikes in tuition because of cuts in higher education funding to Granholm. She'll probably cut more to pay the legal feesActually laws like this generate revenue from the fines. Higher education may not see more funding from this but some goverment budgets will definitely see revenue from this.