Dude, please put this as a WI next time.
It's perfectly acceptable to not use WI in thread titles. On first page of this forum only 8 out of 30 threads have it
Dude, please put this as a WI next time.
They would make import illegal. So before internet technology makes downloading feasible that would impact import of physical copies. High speed internet makes it feasible in early naughties, depending how fast it spreads and how fast and how much companies respond to it.
And my point is that by the time that GTAIII (to use your own example) came around, the Internet technology that made digital distribution available, already existed. The reasons why it didn't take off earlier than it did was two-fold ... concerns about security, both in terms of piracy and in terms of secure payment, and the Industry being slow to embrace the new abilities.
Remember, the games of the time we're talking about, is effectively peanuts in size as opposed to AAA games of today - GTA III is .5 GB for an example - so the speed doesn't need to be anywhere near as where it is today with 30+GB games, the example of Just Cause III, clocking in at 54GB
Such a ban would have immediately been struck down as Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, as it violates the First Amendment.
BTW, the topic is ostensibly "The US senate bans violent games" How does the US Senate pass any laws on its own? I thought the House was needed, too...
And as I noted in a post above, such a ban *even with respect to minors* was founded unconstitutional by the Supreme Court by 7-2 in *Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass'n.*
I'm not a american, so I didn't knew that the house should pass the bill
This must of been a Joe Lieberman sponsored bill. Honestly it would not hold up to a court challenge even a conservative court is not going let that fly.
Also it would need to be veto proof in 99/00 since Clinton will veto it.
Boats going south full of the latest GTA and Duke Nukem coming back full of guns and coke to support gang warfare on the streets of Vancouver and Montreal. That would be a fun international controversyWith the rise of internet game downloading services like Steam in recently, It would be interesting to see how the US government would try to actually enforce these bans.
I do find the idea of prohibition-style "game-running" across the Canadian border to be quite amusing though![]()
Clinton would have signed it. Gore's wife was a huge proponent of banning such games.
Tipper She was Anti Fun. Music in the 80's video games in the 90's you would of thought she would of learned.
Clinton would have signed it. Gore's wife was a huge proponent of banning such games.
Clinton would have signed it. Gore's wife was a huge proponent of banning such games.