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Just thought I'd pass along these links to more info about some of the pending video game legislation in Congress right now::

H.R.1531 - Video Game Decency Act of 2007 http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1531/show
S.568 - Truth in Video Game Rating Act http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s568/show
H.R.2958 Children Protection from Video Game Violence and Sexual Content Act http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2958/show

And you grab an rss feed to monitor congressional activity related to video game legislation here::

http://www.opencongress.org/issue/show/5675_video_games

Just thought I'd pass along these links to more info about some of the pending video game legislation in Congress right now::

H.R.1531 - Video Game Decency Act of 2007 http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1531/show
S.568 - Truth in Video Game Rating Act http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s568/show
H.R.2958 Children Protection from Video Game Violence and Sexual Content Act http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2958/show

And you grab an rss feed to monitor congressional activity related to video game legislation here::

http://www.opencongress.org/issue/show/5675_video_games

One option I thought would make it a lot more attractive would be built-in ripping of DVDs into iTunes.

That certainly would be an attractive option, if it weren't illegal in the United States. Write your Senators and complain.

It's H.R. 4279. The resolution can be found here. It looks quite bipartisan.

What I'd like to see is a representative or senator brave enough to say, "I think we need to stop making laws for a while, to see how what we have works, or not." A key feature that is seemingly absent from our legislative process is a feedback loop. One that asks: Is this working as intended? Do we need to change it? Is it being abused? I like sunset clauses too, but I'm only aware of one piece of legislation that had it, the so-called Assault Weapon Ban.

About 10 years ago, I read "Spock's World." One interesting concept from that book was that the Vulcan legislature had a branch dedicated to purging useless legislation. It would be nice to have one of those too.

Just had a thought: that would be one heck of a community project.

We've got some more stuff in the works, but in the mean time the Sunlight Foundation, which co-created Congresspedia, is doing some pretty cool stuff, like their version of the government site mentioned above, which, unlike the original, doesn't suck: OpenCongress.org

http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/1806

Ayes: 226 (Democrat: 41; Republican: 185)
Nays: 183 (Democrat: 181; Republican: 2)
Abstained: 23 (Democrat: 9; Republican: 14)

No, they've got time to do this.

Ever since the Democrats got a slender majority in the House, the Republicans in the Senate have been using filibusters to block even routine legislation from getting through. Unless there are 60 votes for this in the Senate it will die there. Or it won't come to a vote for months. And once it comes back after the veto, there will have to be 67 votes. The courts can't be relied on to fix things anymore because Bush stuffed them with ideologues and corporatists who will now have lifetime careers in the federal judiciary issuing judgments like this one. He almost got Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court- a woman who just illegally blew off a Congressional subpoena today, leading to the spectacle of an empty chair being screamed at in the House Judiciary committee. Steve Ballmer would have thrown it.

Somebody has to start making phone calls. For Internet radio the Senate bill to call about is S.1353. The House bill is HR.2060. Make especially sure to call Senators. Even as of today (12th) people are reporting that people in Congress haven't even heard of this thing.

No, they've got time to do this.

Ever since the Democrats got a slender majority in the House, the Republicans in the Senate have been using filibusters to block even routine legislation from getting through. Unless there are 60 votes for this in the Senate it will die there. Or it won't come to a vote for months. And once it comes back after the veto, there will have to be 67 votes. The courts can't be relied on to fix things anymore because Bush stuffed them with ideologues and corporatists who will now have lifetime careers in the federal judiciary issuing judgments like this one. He almost got Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court- a woman who just illegally blew off a Congressional subpoena today, leading to the spectacle of an empty chair being screamed at in the House Judiciary committee. Steve Ballmer would have thrown it.

Somebody has to start making phone calls. For Internet radio the Senate bill to call about is S.1353. The House bill is HR.2060. Make especially sure to call Senators. Even as of today (12th) people are reporting that people in Congress haven't even heard of this thing.

Ron Paul stands for what a lot of people in America believe in.
Hear what he has to say, and let the facts speak for them self.