Digital Property Law [was RE: [MUD-Dev] Selling training]

[Matt Mihaly]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Koster, Raph wrote:

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>> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 2:13 AM
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>> Subject: RE: Digital Property Law [was RE: [MUD-Dev] Selling training]
 
>> Further, regardless of how we look at things, we're just game
>> designers. Game designers seem pretty darn unlikely to have any
>> serious influence on politics anytime soon. We're a small industry
>> that isn't taken seriously as an economic or political force (no
>> one gives a damn if the computer games lobby (if there even is one)
>> objects to a proposed bill) and thus we're sort of at the mercy of
>> judges and juries who most likely are not interested in
>> understanding what we do well enough to see clearly.
 
> The IDSA is the gaming industry's lobby, and it's been fairly
> successful at fending off the various attempts at legislation by a
> clueless Congress, thus far. I wouldn't say it's the most powerful
> lobby on the planet, but it's definitely taken seriously.

I think it's been succesful so far because the main issues have been
issues such as pornography which, while causing lots of bitching from
conservatives, doesn't rank as a high priority. Once issues involving
commerce like Project Entropia start coming to fruition, I think we're
going to see the game lobby seriously challenge in its efforts.

--matt

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