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The '''Entertainment Software Rating Board''' ('''ESRB''') they are a self-regulatory organization that applies and enforces ratings, advertising guidelines, and online privacy principles for computer and video games and other entertainment software in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] (officially adopted by individual provinces 2004-2005). It was established in 1994 by the [[wp:Entertainment Software Association|Interactive Digital Software Association]]. By early [[2003]], it had rated over 8,000 titles submitted by 350 video game publishers. Many believe that the ESRB may promote media restriction, while others think that it is necessary for software to have content ratings. The decision to found the ESRB was influenced by the graphic "fatality" killing moves of [[wikia:c:MK|Mortal Kombat]] and other controversial video games depicting violent or sexual situations at the time, and by pressure from the United States government.