Don’t be alarmed, but video game and movie downloads will soon carry age ratings in the UK . The Cousins, worried that such downloads are completely unregulated and unlabeled, will apply the new ratings to video-on-demand and other network services. The ratings will be handled by the British Board of Film Classification, the same organization that banned Manhunt 2 last year . The scheme is voluntary, and so far companies like Disney and Fox have signed up, perhaps to avoid having to deal with legally mandated ratings.
You know, when I was a young lad, my parents let me play the most violent games and watch the most violent movies. Blood and gore, wanton destruction, a veritable cornucopia of evil. Heaven forbid a female character in a movie or whatever striped down to her bra, then all bets were off and I would be thrown into a separate room and the door locked until the naughty parts finished. An exaggeration, sure, but an illustration of upside-down American values.
