Court Rules that Video Games are Constitutionally Protected

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Court Rules that Video Games are Constitutionally Protected

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Here

This is great news, especially given the decision last year that held games to not be speech. Not only that, but the court praised games with interactive storylines.
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Rock. I am so glad to read that. It makes sense that they would be in the same boat as books and movies.
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Yay!

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Good.

Now to broaden the soccer mom's minds.
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Here is nice article in connection with Durran's
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It does rather make sense considering that those choose your own path books are interactive and still considered books and speech.
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I should also add that the court case ruling video games to not be protected speech was based on four games: Doom, Fear Effect, Mortal Combat (sic), and (get ready for this one) The Resident of Evil Creek (sic).
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What the hell is The Resident of Evil Creek?
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A bastardization of Resident Evil perpetuated by a judge (or more likely, his clerk) who obviously didn't bother to do his research before the decision.
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neoolong wrote:What the hell is The Resident of Evil Creek?
LOL (swipes tears from eyes) that is great
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Excellent. Where'd the Creek part come from?
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Alex Moon wrote:WOOHOO!!! SUCK IT LIEBERMAN!!!!! *does pelvic thrusts*
I concur.

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Post by Pablo Sanchez »

Someone should have had the judge play Deus Ex, a game with an involving conspiracy storyline, many situations with multiple solutions, a choose-your-own ending, and an immersive first person view.
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