More like China

New mandated software in China aims to help teenagers jonesing for video games to quit. The government requires gaming companies to install anti-addiction software on their games to stop teens from playing too long. After a couple of hours of playing a warning will flash onto the screen telling you it’s time to get some exercise (I kid you not). And if you ignore the warning, the total points you’ve won in the past three hours will be halved. After five hours of uninterrupted play you lose all your points.

Why do I think some teenage is going figure out how to get around this?

“What I want to say is we need this for our company,” says Jackie Zhuge, spokesman for China’s biggest online gaming company, Shanda Interactive Entertainment. “It’s social responsibility we have to take.”

As the software is mandated, Shanda is doing more than being socially responsible, its going to be making a ton of money. I just wonder how long it will take from some “socially responsible” Senator to bring us similar legislation.