Vicarious Visions: New York legislation violates 'free speech' |
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An opinion article written by none other than the co-founder and manager of New York-based Vicarious Visions (responsible for id's Doom 3 for Xbox), Karthik Bala and Guha Bala, stressed that the New York legislation on games were in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution.
"In fact, nine federal courts in the last six years have ruled that legislation in other states substantially similar to what is being proposed in New York violates free speech protections," they said. And each time, these proposed legislations were eventually held back and questioned in the end.
But the legislators and their proposal don't go down without a fight, which stems new concern on the necessary spending to defend the statutes of each legislation. Hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' money, according to the developers, is used by the legislative bodies to continue pressing the proposal for approval.
"Several states and municipalities have been ordered to pay more than US$ 1.7 million to the video game industry for legal fees," they said. And they do believe that New York is still hard-pressed to recover from its economic losses. The state could not afford, said Bala, to enact the new proposal and then defend it against human rights violations.
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