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Games + Greece = Jail
by jason bergman, Sep 03, 2002 6:59pm PDTOfficially making it the worst place in the world to be a gamer (worse than censorship-laden Germany, apparently), Greece recently passed a law making it illegal to have an "electronic game" in either public or private places. This includes PC games, arcade games, console games, handheld games and even cell phone games, and the penalties are a fine of 5,000 to 75,000 euros and imprisonment of one to 12 months if caught. Why was this passed? Apparently to discourage gambling. The ZDNet UK article points out that this puts a halt to the planned CPL qualifying event, and Blue's News posted a link to this petition where people can express their outrage over the law.
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This law in greece sounds like one of the worst steps back from democracy in an already fairly tightly handled country. Makes me cringe and vomit.
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I guess we'll just have to stay in the US and laugh at the silly Europeans and their stinky ideas. Cheers.
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Warbucket comic on the issue.
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GG Greece you = lose.
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*ngs*
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Either way this is the funniest thing I've ever heard.
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This law is not going to survive six months.
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No snake
What happens to tourists, Its not funny if you go to jail when you are a tourist.
"the café owner will be fined and the place closed."
rough
," said the commercial attaché at the Greek Embassy in London -- who declined to give her name"
No name, oh man it would have been fun to have a game called shoot the spokesperson. Once when you shoot the person game over, and the law will not exist anymore
." One online report said that even watching a film on DVD -- many of which contain promotional games linked to the movie -- had resulted in an arrest and a 10,000-euro fine.'
WTF are they smoking shit
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Well, the Greek Government certainly has it's priorities backwards.
The law being passed in that Er article is hinged upon their motivation to erradicate 'illegal gambling' - read online gambling, read - online gambling overseas, read - online gambling that the Greek Government can't get revenue from.
Talk about a transparent agenda.
If I could retire right now I'd definitely move there. The place is simply unbelievable. If you go visit Greece to play video games then there's something wrong with you. So I really don't think there's much of a threat to British tourists.
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When the Little kids with their "first computers" are doing hard time, you know you've fucked up. Still, I wouldn't mind the people playing mobile phone games with annoying noises in public to be arrested.
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