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|  #1 Posted on 4.9.02 1339.42 | Well I got the heads-up on this one from Penny-Arcade, so any of you regulars over there may have already seen this.
Greece has banned the use of Videogames in the whole country, from computer chess, to gameboys, to MS Hearts, to any games included on your cellphone. For playing these games you could spend a year in jail, and have a fine greater than $4,000. And all of this has been implemented to stop illegal gambling. What the hell?!? Do they smoke crack over there or what? Okay, end spiel.
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| #2 Posted on 4.9.02 1351.55 | Instant Rating: 5.22 | Good luck enforcing that one. I can't imagine that a law so broad it its' aim and so draconian in its' penalties will last long. It's ridiculous to imagine legions of Grecians being fined the equivalent of five to ten thousand dollars and being thrown in the slam for a year - for playing a game of video chess. If they try to enforce this law to the letter, the entire population of Greece - as well as thousands of uninformed tourists - will be in jail by the end of the year.
I have a feeling that it's a manuver by Greek politicians to fatten their coffers by establishing a de facto tax on videogame playing. That's just stupid. Besides, if they jail all these videogame players, eventually the cost of additional prisions will more than offset the money the fines bring in.
Besides - if the prisoners start playing videogames in prison, what will they do then?
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| #3 Posted on 4.9.02 1401.33 | Geez, they better come up with some loopholes in time for the Summer Olympics, or who knows WHAT'LL happen. I doubt they have the legal machinery to handle so many potential violations from ignorant foreign visitors alone. Let's hope the test case comes up soon and the judges make a common sense call.
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| #4 Posted on 4.9.02 1448.11 | Instant Rating: 4.05 | from what i read on gamespot.com, it was inacted to stop some coffee shop from having computers set-up to let custs play computer games. the problem is that they made the language so broad, it unintentionally banned ALL electronic games in the country...
the case against the coffee shop goes to trial on the 10th.
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| #5 Posted on 6.9.02 0413.08 | Instant Rating: 4.52 | This is one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever heard. And you're right-- if this thing is still in place by the time the 2004 Olympics in Athens roll around, it could create a major international incident. Try arresting a shitload of foreign athletes and fans for playing a video game and see where it gets you. Anyway... hopefully they realize their mistake and will correct it. It'll probably end up someplace on the Urban Legends Reference Pages before long, so we can all laugh at it again in ten years.
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| #6 Posted on 7.9.02 0124.35 | | From what I heard, it was a draft of an anti-gaming-in-coffee-shops bill that got leaked to the media. They should fix the language in the final version. | chazerizer
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| #7 Posted on 7.9.02 0205.14 |
Originally posted by drjayphd
From what I heard, it was a draft of an anti-gaming-in-coffee-shops bill that got leaked to the media. They should fix the language in the final version.
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| #8 Posted on 11.9.02 0933.08 | Instant Rating: 4.05 | from gamespot.com
According to the Associated Press, a Greek court has labeled as unconstitutional the recently publicized law prohibiting electronic gaming in public places. In the first test of the law, which went into effect in July, the court threw out a case against the first three people to be charged under the law. The decision by the court opens the path to further challenges of legislation that was intended to limit illegal gambling but was worded so broadly as to prohibit all PC and handheld games as well.
The case held two Internet caf owners and an employee responsible for letting customers play Counter-Strike and online chess on computers installed in the caf. If the case had stood up in court, the three defendants each faced three months in prison and fines of at least $5000.
The antigaming law is having an effect apart from the initial case, even though the legislation may prove to be unconstitutional. The AP report cites that caf owners are seeing up to 90 percent fewer customers and that many arcades have closed to avoid potential penalties.
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| #9 Posted on 11.9.02 1934.07 | Hmm...(note to self...never move to Greece...)
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|  #10 Posted on 12.9.02 0031.32 | IT's not an Urban Legend. In fact, three people were arrested already..All were released however without any punishment or stuff.
Two of them were playing electronic chess in some bar.
They are looking at the law now (as was said earlier)
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| #11 Posted on 12.9.02 0451.35 | Instant Rating: 4.52 | I'm not saying it is an Urban Legend. I'm aware that it's very much real. But on the Urban Legends Reference Pages, they do have situations that some people may think to be urban legends, but that turn out to be true. Like the razor blades in the candy bars and such.
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| #12 Posted on 12.9.02 0806.05 | I thought that was one of the ones that wasn't true.
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| #13 Posted on 18.9.02 0620.17 | Instant Rating: 5.22 |
Originally posted by rikidozan
from gamespot.com
According to the Associated Press, a Greek court has labeled as unconstitutional the recently publicized law prohibiting electronic gaming in public places. In the first test of the law, which went into effect in July, the court threw out a case against the first three people to be charged under the law. The decision by the court opens the path to further challenges of legislation that was intended to limit illegal gambling but was worded so broadly as to prohibit all PC and handheld games as well.
Let's just say I'm not surprised.
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| #14 Posted on 18.9.02 0647.25 | Instant Rating: 4.52 | Tom, Nooo... the razor blades in the candy bars were very, very real. That particular door to hell opened in 1982, the same year as the Tylenol murders. 1982 was a terrible year for such things. On the plus side, I was born in 1982, so really, how bad could it have been? Don't answer that.
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| #15 Posted on 18.9.02 1119.28 | Huh, I looked it up and you are dead on right with that, even to the year. I bet it was an urban legend first and then someone decided to do it for real.
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