eSports are competitive activities involving video game, computer and other equipment. According to the project, the electronic sport, when practiced in a professional way, will observe national and international rules accepted by the entities of administration of the activity.
For the author of the project, senator Roberto Rocha (PSDB-MA), sports disputes in virtual environments offer, as well as traditional sports, ways of "socialization, fun and learning." The senator points out that the practice can contribute to improve the intellectual capacity and strengthen the reasoning and the motor skills of the participants. And stressed that one should not confuse electronic game with electronic sport, the real object of the proposal.
The CE rapporteur, Senator Eduardo Gomes (MDB-TO), recommended the approval of the text as a letter from the Commission on Science, Technology, Innovation, Communication and Information Technology (CCT). There, the substitute, made by Senator Davi Alcolumbre (DEM-AP), then member of the collegiate body, reformulated the original text to make it more harmonious with the provisions of Law 9.615, of 1998, which establishes general norms on the sport.
Source of income
Eduardo Gomes explained that electronic sport is today a source of income for thousands of athletes worldwide, who have had their careers in football, volleyball and other sports. With the development of electronic sports games, it is possible to see families reunited even in gyms, around the competitions, generating income and resources. The rapporteur stressed that electronic sports are not just violence, he said, as Senator Eduardo Girão (Podemos-CE) wanted to make believe with the presentation of a video in the commission.
The rapporteur presented two improvements. He withdrew from the proposal, considering it an addiction of insult, the creation of Electronic Sport Day. And he complied with the suggestion of Eduardo Girão, so that the game with violent sexual content that propagates a message of hatred, prejudice or discrimination or that advocates the use of drugs is not considered an electronic sport. This classification, however, will be made by presidential decree.
“It is not a law that will define which game can be played, even because it would be illegal, to define that a company that builds a game can and not another. The objective of the law is more authoritative, and the presidential decree will define the limits of each one,” explained Roberto Rocha.
Source: GMB
