Well done article. I think you mentioned in your article why the pols are after the video game industry, but I will point out a couple of reasons:
If the game industry is growing and increasingly lucrative then the pols will want their cut of the loot. The attack on the industry is merely the opening salvo in an extortion attempt which will require the industry to hire elite lawyers to pay off the status quo pols.
The established film industry is losing sales to the game industry. Since the film indusry is a status quo power base, their lobbyists will attempt to use the power of the pol to punish their competitors. This will require hiring more establishment lawyers on all sides to battle this out. This avenue gives employment to establsihment lawyers and increases the chances of the pols to get a bigger cut of the loot.
The elites may know that video games reduce violence in a demographic historically the source of violence. The establishment may not desire this effect for it would reduce the influence of the corrections industry. What do the pols do with all the social workers, police, prisons and detention centers. A reduction in violence in a key demographic would adversely affect a powerful lobby and endanger the living of thousands of parasites developed by the state to enhance its power over the citizenry. A side effect, of course, would be the need on the part of the corrections industry to make up the revenues somewhere elese; to the detriment of the rest of us.
