More Fallout Over Greek Game Ban
from the still-a-mess dept
Last year we had plenty of stories about Greece's bizarre law banning video games. Even after a court threw out the first case based on the law, and Greek lawmakers softened the language of the law a little bit (you could play games at home now, but not in internet cafes), many internet cafe owners were still being harassed by the police. Well, it's been a few months, and things aren't getting any better. Lawmakers are idiotically standing by their law, even after the EU has told them to change the law. The courts in Greece continue to throw out the cases, but police keep shutting down cafes. They have the story of one internet cafe owner who was arrested and had his computer confiscated. The court threw out the case and said he was innocent. A week later, he was arrested again. It's ruining the internet cafe business in Greece, and making them the laughingstock of the world in many ways. It seems the only people who like the law are the politicians, who come out with quotes like, "The measure is a tough one, but it is the only effective one." Effective in what? Angering everyone and destroying viable businesses?
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The law was introduced to tackle with illegal gambling and electronic fruit machines or "one armed pirates". It is not meant to make playing quake illegal at home or in public!
There are hundreds of net caffes out there, all of them sporting video games.
Try to be a little bit more factual when you reproduce "news".
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