IDSA eller The Interactive Digital Association har netop meddelt, at de har i sinde at gå direkte imod det netop vedtaget lovforslag om, at gøre det ulovligt at sælge spil til mindre årige, hvor politiet eller andre lovmæssige instanser udsættes for vold.
Guvernør Gray Locke har netop fået vedtaget loven der gør det umuligt at udleje, sælge eller på anden vis få fat i spil, der indeholder scener med politifolk der udsættes for vold. Altså spil som bl.a. Vice City og The Getaway. Men hos IDSA siger Doug Lowenstein følgende:
"It's not only unnecessary and unconstitutional, but it clearly won't solve the issue at which it's apparently aimed - In other words, if a child has a Mature-rated game, odds are he or she got it from Mum and Dad. If the goal is to keep games out of the hands of kids for whom they are not appropriate - and our industry has been a proactive leader in supporting such efforts long before this bill was conceived - then the answer is to focus on parental education and awareness of the ESRB ratings, not to try to turn retailers into parents."
Desuden er der allerede rod med den nye lov der ikke forbyder nye spil som de udkommer, men nærmere kræver at butikspersonalet skal tage stilling til og bøde for spil solgt, der alligevel indeholder det forbudte materiale. Uanset om butikspersonalet har vished omkring det eller ej kan de straffes. Doug Lowenstein fortsætter:
"We're confident that our position will be affirmed in court. At a time when the state faces a massive budget deficit, it is unfortunate that taxpayers and parents will see critical funds diverted to defend a bill which is patently unconstitutional. In January 2002 in a similar case, the City of Indianapolis spent $700,000 covering its own and the arcade industry's attorneys' fees on a bill which was unanimously ruled unconstitutional by the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit."
Vi holder øje med sagen.