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Online Billing Solution Provider Files Brief Backing Game Industry

By pete_gallagher

In what may initially seem like a stretch, Vindicia, a 'leading provider of on-demand strategic billing solutions,' has filed an amicus brief in support of the videogame side in Schwarzenegger vs EMA.

The brief (PDF) makes a bit more sense when put in the context that Vindicia has clients such as Activision Blizzard and Atari. The company stated that the law at the center of the case 'substantially impacts Vindicia, its customers, and the consumers they serve… by creating uncertainty regarding the legal status of video game expression.'

Furthermore, the 'the Act's age verification mandate jeopardizes significant modes of online commerce.'

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 20, 2010 (boomark / email).