Rob Fahey
Columnist, GamesIndustry.biz

04/12/2009 @ 08:00

Digital Disaster

Videogames, along with other new media markets, have officially arrived - at least in the eyes of the British government, that most ponderous and slow-moving of beasts. Many years after the majority of British adults started using the Internet and playing games, the government has finally seen fit to introduce legislation to accommodate it, in the form of the Digital Economy Bill - a bill which should represent a new high water mark in terms of the government's engagement with the thriving interactive entertainment business.

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