ESA Releases Annual Report To Public For First Time
The ESA, perhaps because of its recent troubles with defecting publishers, has for the first time made its annual report available to the public. The document helps to illustrate the varied fronts on which the ESA supports the gaming industry, and while there's still plenty of sass about E3, the ESA is trying to make sure that everyone knows how the ESA works to benefit the industry as a whole - be ye gamer, publisher or developer.
Some of the report's highlights:
- A ground-breaking study fielded by the ESA demonstrated that while the US economy's annual growth has been only about 2% (between 2003 and 2006), the game industry's annual growth has exceeded 17%, far outpacing the rest of the economy.
- The ESA prevented enactment of any harmful copyright legislation on the federal level, and increased awareness of the ESRB rating system among policymakers among the House Commerce Committee as well as through one-on-one meetings on Capitol Hill.
- At the state level, not a single bill regulating the sale of violent games was enacted.
- On August 6, 2007, Judge Ronald Whyte ruled in favor of an ESA Motion for Summary Judgment, permanently enjoining enforcement of the California violent video game law that was filed back in December 2005. The court ruled that video games are protected by the First Amendment and found that there was no evidence that playing violent games resulted in real world violence.
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Miscellany on 31 July 2008
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While not exactly the most eye catching news, all of the bulletpoints listed above are awesome!
...especially that third one.