ESRB has sights on DLC

The great guys and girls over at 1up have a interesting write up on how the ESRB wants to tackle down loadable content. It's no secrete that companies are shipping games that are not fully done. I not sure they are so much trying to sneak things under the ratings so as they are being lazy. Granted this is nothing new. PC games having been doing this for a while now.

Now what I think is interesting is; on the movie side when companies either put in a different ending or add back some deleted scenes the movie just becomes NR. Or the scenes are NR. So the question begs what makes a movie different from a game? Granted obvious differences asides they are both art forms. Granted this is they same with books, I don't see the huge censorship out cry.

So what makes them different? I don't think as for a art form there is a major difference. I think this is very complicated subject we have all heard the scapegoat answer; it's all in the protection of children. Though I think the issue gose much deeper than digital nudity and blood.

I think a lot of people are scared of new things. If you think about it, video games have not been around very long. A lot of the people who are most worried about them never grew up with them, so I think they fear where this could go.

Yet I think a greater number know out of all the things to protect your children from video games rank pretty low. This being you're a parent that pays attention to the world at large. So in one sense I don't blame them for throwing a fit. I mean video games, movies, books and music is all they can do to protect their kids form some untold danger. I think it gives them a sense of accomplishment and worth.

Yet I am not their kid, and no one has the right to limit art.