http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27086.html

A Greek court has ruled that the country's new ban on electronic games is unconstitutional and throwing out a case brought against two net café owners who were charged with allowing their customers to play Counter-Strike and online chess.

The two proprietors, along with an employee, could have faced a three month jail sentence and fines of about 5,000 Euro each, along with the loss of their business licences, the BBC reports. Instead the court has set a precedent for other cases, and set the country's legal system against its government - a battle which the courts are almost certain to win, given their ultimate right to interpret the constitution.

The ruling was welcomed by the Greek Internet Café Owners Union, with a spokesman saying that "all those who supported this from the beginning are vindicated", and by the 300-strong crowd which had gathered outside the court to protest against the law.


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Thank God. That law was ****ing stupid anyway.

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May this be a lesson to all who would abolish a person's right, nay, a nation's right to play Video Games. Never mess with the Video Gaming community, because we are unstoppable!

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I don't know. A small-to-medium atomic explosion could probably do it.

Az

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Perhaps...but if someone did that, they would have millions of peoples' blood on their hands and would be hunted down by the US and other governments.

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"If a soldier sweats in
boot camp, he won't
bleed in battle."

Sounds like fun...

Az


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Sounds like someone needs their pills.


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just games or death, and were all out of death!

Yeah, really.

Well, I'm glad that they (hopefully) are getting rid of that stupid law.

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If a law like that were made in Korea, I'd bet that pretty much all government0-related servers would become victims to denial of service attakcs.

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Nah, I think that a single man, if given the opportunity to use night-vision goggles and be able to pick up ammo and extra guns at random points all over the globe, could eventually kill them all. Of course, he might have to do some levels several times, but he could do it.



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