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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedHot coffee burns: the videogame industry is far from out of the political woods.(Entertainment Software Ratings Board)(ban of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas computer game)
Video Business, July, 2005 by Sweeting, Paul
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * In an effort to emphasize their traditional alues stance, politicians, especially Democrats, are cracking down on the videogame industry and its ratings system. * Mods create an issue of liability regarding who should be held responsible for the altered or added material.
********** WASHINGTON -- Quick action by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board in revoking the Mature (M) rating on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas seems to have headed off a threatened political crackdown on the videogame industry--at least for now. Two of the industry's harshest critics on Capitol Hill, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), issued statements last week praising the ESRB's investigation of the Hot...
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