07-05-2005, 05:50 PM
From what I was able to understand it was for security reasons because it was a trade show, according to the person who got me in, a few years ago someone sued the people who host the show because another company stole some copyrighted material from a game, so that ask you to walk through a metal detector door, and also put electronic tags on all the sensitive items, (sort of like the tags you get in clothes shops, only these things are blue squares for the most part).