games banned in greece?

[pg]

is gaming is banned in greece now?

http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=220579

http://www.sogamed.com/forums.php?id=13194&forum_id=1&type=1

few more sources -

Go to http://www.worldlingo.com/products_s...ranslator.html and translate all the articles of www.netcafe.gr

http://www.gameland.gr/

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=17011

http://www.intergame.ltd.uk/news.htm

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26041.html

[Apocalypse]

One of the more intelligent posts:

I am the greek guy again, i just want 2 explain the reason goverment did this. It was the fact that they couldnt control gambling machines like Reel Magic and some other gambling places using pc's for gamble.
Cause the guys owned such shops where using a switcing tricks and making those pc's look like surfing or gaming pc's
and goverment couldnt control em they desided 2 close everything that uses electricity and u can play it !!!
This inlcudes games at mobile phones, all game consoles, all coin ops, all pc games, all net games like yahoo chess etc, and ALL GAMES THAT EVEN NOT USE MONITOR OR TV BUT USE ELECTRICITY !!! EVEN IF U PLAY THEN AT YOUR OWN HOME !!!

FFS FFS FFS FFS FFS FFS FFS FFS FFS FFS FFS FFS !!!!!!

[Kassiopeia]

This game banning thing reeks of a hoax. I mean seriously, the concept itself is purely ridiculous. The government will just lose tax revenue when businesses close down and people will rather ware or buy their consoles and games from abroad. So I guess the possible income from the gaming industry wasn't considered enough?
Also, I would've thought we'd have seen a thread about this on Poly already, if the ban is already in effect. If this is just a motion, then I might buy this. If it is a motion, it probably won't pass.
And I'd really like to see just how this ban is enforced.

[Kassiopeia]

2002-08-28 21:09:31

the law was voted 1 month ago.
today the cops "rushed" in the netcafes and arrested young children playing cs and other games..

-****'em, and their law..

Suuuure. Whatever. I'm SO believing this.

[MarkG]

sort of

the law is mainly aimed against internet cafes that have games on computers

but, sure the law bans all gaming everywhere, with the exception of games that are not electrical or electronic
ah yes, and with the exception of existing casinos

meanwhile, the association of internet cafes is responding to the first single arrest(no jail, he had to pay a fine) of a cafe owner with complaints to the police on computers with games in public services
the next move should probably be to make a complaint about the prime minister's mobile phone!

[Felch]

Yeah, but what does Tom Tomorrow have to say about it?

Oh wait, he's too busy making fun of America to realize that Europeans are just as stupid sometimes.

[Apocalypse]

Just to clarify...is it legal or not for you to play Civ3 anymore, Mark?

[MarkG]

Apoc, Civ3 is illegal unless i can prove that my computer is 100% mechanical

Kassiopeia, read this (from the first post)

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=17011

Felch, to each his own....
i'm sure if Tom Tomorrow was a greek he would do something about this....

[DinoDoc]

Why not just stage a book burning? It makes the same amount of sense.

[GodKing]

And if we snitch, does that mean you go to jail, not that we would. Where would we post and make fools of ourselves?

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by MarkG
Apoc, Civ3 is illegal unless i can prove that my computer is 100% mechanical

Kassiopeia, read this (from the first post)

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=17011

Felch, to each his own....
i'm sure if Tom Tomorrow was a greek he would do something about this....

Just read the story. Are you sure this isn't a Greek version of "The Onion"?

It doesn't say anything about playing in your own home.

[David Floyd]

This is what happens when you don't have a Bill of Rights that actually gets upheld.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Tuberski
It doesn't say anything about playing in your own home.

no it doesnt

the law does.

the law of course has this in as a measure against someone turning his house into a gambling club

it of course doesnt target normal gamers at their homes except from the fact that this is not stated in the law

so i'm not expecting the police to knock on my door any moment now but i'm might be illegal

[MarkG]

Originally posted by David Floyd
This is what happens when you don't have a Bill of Rights that actually gets upheld.

the US bill of rights says something about civ3?

[Asher]

Greece is a silly and backwards nation, don't you think?