March 13, 2007 -
New York State is leading the nation in video game legislation this year.By our count, the Empire State has at least three video game bills in the works. GamePolitics has previously broken the news about retail-oriented legislative proposals introduced by a pair of Democrats, Rep. Keith Wright and Rep. Aurelia Greene.
A third bill, proposed by Republican Rep. Brian Kolb, offers the standard language prohibiting the sale of violent or sexually explicit games to minors, but brings an unusual twist.
In addition to blocking retailers from selling such games to minors, the bill, A02787, provides "the Courts" the power to confiscate any games which do not clearly display a rating label. The bill also requires retailers to make games available for review by parents prior to purchase.
Kolb's bill calls for fines of up to $1,000 as well as unspecified criminal penalties. If passed, the measure will take effect on November 1st.
Comments
All currently developed games have a rating on them. The only games made these days with out ratings are downloadable games. But it seems that we are free to download all the violent and pornagraphic games we want because they cannot regulate games that way.
This bill will not pass.
It's called "renting." What you do is get into your car, go to the video store, and "rent" a game for a set time, and when the time is up, you go back and drop it off at the video store again, so another person can "rent" it.
What an amazing piece of nonsense Mr. Kolb has managed to come up with.
If most parents can't be bothered to even check the ratings, why would they take the time to review the game itself?
I don't see this standing up to a legal challenge. ESA gonna get paid (again).
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