Leaving the situation go as it is, as I said above, is harmful in the long-term to everyone involved.

If a set of laws or regulations say they apply to everyone, but enforcement irregular, and essentially on the whim of whoever happens to be in the chair, then nobody knows when or if they're going to get stung.

It is generally a matter of trust that our government authorities, regulators and enforcers don't just happen to ignore written regulations when they find them inconvenient.

If there's a *problem* with the regulations, then those regulations obviously need to be reviewed and perhaps revised.

I was actually chasing a slightly different story when this came to light. It appeared initially that content could completely bypass classification and regulation, simply by having a quick nod in the direction of MMOGness. Content that would otherwise be unacceptable in any other format appeared to be immune if presented in the guise of an MMOG.

The actual story turned out to be somewhat stranger - and I wasn't the only writer on the trail. I met three others chasing the same paths and leads during the three months I was working on this (one of whom had been researching this for publication for more than a year. Part of a book, I believe). I just happened to be the one who managed get enough data and be published first. If not me, then in a few days or weeks, one of the others would have published essentially the same story.

It's just one of those issues that's too big to keep quiet. Sooner or later it would have been in all our faces.