ESA Backs Maryland Games Bill

The Entertainment Software Association is generally in the business of fighting legal restrictions on the sale of video games, but apparently they're happy with the law recently passed in Maryland, says Gamasutra:

Thus, the ESA's Doug Lowenstein is in the happy position of being able to support the bill, which specifically references the distribution of "illicit sex"-based content to minors at a level far above the current M-rated content. He did so, commenting: "The ESA has always been supportive of the inclusion of video games to 'harmful to minor' statues that meet the Supreme Courts obscenity standards. We believe that video games should be treated in the same way that books and movies are treated under the law."

Doug's being okay with this is because all the law (PDF) does, apparently, is insert the words "video game" into an existing statute dealing with pornographic materials. Hell, the original law probably would have sufficed, as it already had the phrases "computer disc" and "videodisc" in there. I doubt that, under the original law, anybody caught selling Lula 3D to gradeschoolers would have found themselves in trouble anyway.