games banned in greece?

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Rasbelin
If you have been surfing around for information and discussions/outbursts related to this new law, you have most likely seen plenty of rants and general discussion. In general I would recommend signing the petitions and using gameland.gr as a starting point for your excurison into this subject.

I don't live in greece, but I can I join? I promise to use all of my poly DLs.

[Proserpine]

Good God Almighty . . . whatever next?

[Bereta_Eder]

God is dead.

[Lefty Scaevola]

USA governement bans terroists, Greece bans electronic games, each with some colatteral casualties. Which program looks better to the Euro commies.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
USA governement bans terroists, Greece bans electronic games, each with some colatteral casualties. Which program looks better to the Euro commies.

Yeah but terrorists in the US are like electronic games in Greece. They both exist (play) nevertheless.

[FlameFlash]

Originally posted by paiktis22
God is dead.

All right, who killed Her?

Yeah but terrorists in the US are like electronic games in Greece. They both exist (play) nevertheless.

Too true!

[DaShi]

Who wants to join the betting pool on how long this will last?

[CapTVK]

Wow, that's even funnier than the legal fact that pinball machines were considered gambling machines in the USA and in many states deemed illegal (for decades).

Moral: there are plenty of silly laws to go around

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by CapTVK
Wow, that's even funnier than the legal fact that pinball machines were considered gambling machines in the USA and in many states deemed illegal (for decades).

You'll notice that we grew out of that. Greece seems content to act like little children and regress in comparison to the rest of the world. Which admittedly is easy to do with the EU helping to prop up thier 3rd world economy.

[CapTVK]

Seeing as there are not much pinball machines to go around these days you indeed "grew out of that". Evolving markets and consumer preferences might have played a large part in that but a silly gambling law does provide for plenty of extra nails for the coffin.


The law was meant to prevent electronic gambling in street cafes and internet shops -it overshot the mark- and will be amended -in time-

[stonewall]

Originally posted by David Floyd




The US Constitution and US Bill of Rights set up limits on the federal government. The federal government, because of these documents, could not ban a videogame.

What about the numerous examples of books, music, movies, etc being banned or regulated such that they are effectively banned?

[player1]

Hmm...

Does this mean, since games got banned, that only way for some Greek player to play Civ3:PtW is to get pirated copy?

Since anyway, how are you supposed to buy original gaming software legaly if it's illegal?



P.S.
Greeks should probably, in next elections (if they don't get banned too ), vote for some more normal candidates.

Since all this looks more like a work of some religious fanatic, and not of some responsibile politician.

[Thorn]

Any government that bans video games is a terrorist state. All I need to do is submit this information to the Bush administration and Greece will be on the list for vaporization. Enjoy your country Mark, it will be gone soon.

[player1]

Originally posted by Thorn
Any government that bans video games is a terrorist state. All I need to do is submit this information to the Bush administration and Greece will be on the list for vaporization. Enjoy your country Mark, it will be gone soon.

Actually it's just enough to condemn Greece for having weapons of mass destruction, and start a "witch hunting".

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by CapTVK
The law was meant to prevent electronic gambling in street cafes and internet shops -it overshot the mark- and will be amended -in time-

Considering how slow government works, I think within a few years.