Read all about it: Wicker's Video Game Rating Enforcement Act of 2008

Posted Jul 29, 2008 at 2:03PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Tags: New York, senator
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Wicker's Video Game Rating Enforcement Act of 2008 detailed - Image 1A couple of days back, we wrote a post detailing a piece of videogame legislation proposed by U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) known as S.3315. According to that earlier report, the bill would, if made law,

...prohibit the distribution or sale of video games that do not have age-based content rating labels [and] prohibit the sale or rental of video games with adult content ratings to minors...


GamePolitics managed to acquire a copy of the actual piece of legislation, placing a PDF of it  online for people to download and disseminate. To that end, we've put up the file on DL.QJ.Net for you to pick up and read.

S.3315, which calls itself the Video Game Rating Enforcement Act of 2008, isn't to be confused with the Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act of Reps. Jim Matheson (D-UT) and Lee Terry (R-NE), though the content of both is similar. S.3315 essentially holds that games must be rated before they can be sold or rented, that information on the said ratings be easily seen by consumers in stores, and that games with "mature" or "adults only" ratings be sold to people of the proper age to buy said game.

A lot's left unspecified in the bill, however, such as the nature of downloadable games and the plight of the independent game maker who usually can't afford to have his game rated.

That said, we encourage you to check out the full text of the bill to better inform your opinions on the matter of videogame legislation.

Download: S.3315: The Video Game Rating Enforcement Act of 2008



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Comments [refresh]

by teh not so 1337 g@m3r - 2008-07-29 11:07
» So in otherwords

it's what we already have with the ESRB

by c0Ld - 2008-07-29 11:45
» wtf?

i dont get it...whats it changing/adding? stores werent allowed to sell mature/adult video games to minors anyways...werent they?

by Nathanias - 2008-07-29 13:23
» Well

I heard if you had Double D's you could... but I guess this law is definetly going to stop that >_>

by Xastabus - 2008-07-30 03:02
» Wasted taxes...

Aren't there more important things for us to be spending our tax dollars on? Like funding renewable energy projects, researching electric vehicles, and weening our country off of foreign oil?



Oh no, we have to make it illegal to sell products without an age based rating while simultaneously questioning the legitimacy of the industry standard ratings body. We have to protect children from their parents who are too ignorant to look at a box and decide whether or not a game is appropriate for said children. We have to blame all of societies problems on someone other than the people who are actually to blame.



I am so sick of the political crusade against video games. I have to wonder what the next fashionable target will be. What perceived corruptive influence will the brainless masses rally against once they've neutered interactive entertainment.

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