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What You Need To Know About Video Game Enforcement Act
If you’ve heard about the Video Game Enforcement Act but haven’t been keeping up with recent activities, consider this your crash course.The S.3315 bill would, if made law,
“…prohibit the distribution or sale of video games that do not have age-based content rating labels [and] prohibit the sale or rental of video games with adult content ratings to minors…”
GamePolitics managed to acquire a copy of the actual piece of legislation, placing a PDF of it online for people to peruse.
S.3315, which calls itself the Video Game Rating Enforcement Act of 2008, isn’t to be confused with the Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act of Reps. Jim Matheson (D-UT) and Lee Terry (R-NE), though the content of both is similar. S.3315 essentially reads that games must be rated before they can be sold or rented, that information on the said ratings be easily seen by consumers in stores, and that games with “mature” or “adults only” ratings should be sold to people of the proper age to buy said game.
Much is left unspecified in the bill, however, such as the nature of downloadable games and the issue of the independent game maker who usually can’t afford to have his game rated.
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