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Report: U.K. Legal Movie Download Market Will Mature by 2010

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 21, 2005 - 8:04am.
London - According to market research firm Screen Digest, the U.K. broadband movie market is set to boom over the next five years, the Register reports. Screen Digest predicted that, by the year 2010, every home in the U.K. will have downloaded at least one movie using a broadband connection. Over the same period, legal movie downloading will be worth more than $106 million in the U.K. and more than $299 million across the rest of Europe, Screen Digest said. "Although there are still issues in terms of bandwidth, download times and general consumer familiarity with the Internet as a means of consuming movies, these issues are becoming less significant," analyst Arash Amel told the Register.
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Calif. Lawmaker to Introduce Bill Outlawing "Mature" Game Sales to Minors

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 23, 2003 - 5:19am.
Los Angeles -- A California Congressman plans to introduce legislation that would make it a crime to sell "Mature"-rated video games to minors, Reuters reported. Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) will introduce a new version of the "Protect Children from Video Game Sex and Violence Act," which debuted last year but stalled in Congress. The new version will reportedly treat violent video games as a form of obscenity in the eyes of the law, trumping any First Amendment issues with free speech. Baca's office said the bill may be introduced as early as next week. http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030122/media_videogames_1.html
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