Fearing competition from stores that rent video games for home use, owners of stores that sell video games lobbied for protective legislation. Citing as a precedent legislation that postpones home film rentals until one year after general release to theaters, the video sellers proposed as an equitable solution a plan that would postpone rental of any video game until it had been available for sale for one year.
The statement 'People who rent video games tend to play them by themselves, whereas people who rent films invite friends and neighbors to watch' would support an objection by owners of video rental stores that the fairness of the proposed legislation is not supported by the precedent cited.