I think the company behind GTA are British - which (if it's true) means this law will fail to have any juristiction over the prime suspect.
The only upshot of this law is that no company will want to develop software in the US - this is already happening due to heavy handed protectionist laws governing software copyright and ownership, leading to many jobs in the software industry (outside of the Microsofts etc) going to countries with less silly laws.
So, in summary then, a silly law, which will do nothing except encourage skilled labour to exit the country, whilst having no effect on stemming the flow of violent video games into the country, because they will all be written abroad.
Well done.
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