quiksilver
Jul 9 2005, 12:01 AM
QUOTE A new law passed in Greece means that anybody carrying an electronic game - even if it is just on a mobile phone - could face a hefty fine or lengthy jail sentence
Thousands of British tourists in Greece are unknowingly facing heavy fines or long terms in prison for owning mobile phones or portable video games. The Greek government has banned all electronic games across Greece, including those in home computers, Game Boy-style portable consoles, and on mobile phones.
Law Number 3037, enacted at the end of July, explicitly forbids electronic games with 'electronic mechanisms and software' from public and private places, and people have already been fined tens of thousands of euros for playing or owning games. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/mobile/0,...,2121692,00.htmThat is carzy!! The law even includes games that come with windows and cell phones.  I feel bad for those guys. I bet there are a lot of angry teenagers in Greece. If America ever does this I am moving to Canada 
Reply
Señor Maniac
Jul 9 2005, 01:58 AM
Yeah I think that they should revise the law so that it does not have to include games on consoles or even the ones that come with the operating systems. I too think that the law is unfair. Another thing that I think is that the tourists should not be held accountable for something that does not put a life or quality of life in danger. They are not residents there and should not be in trouble. Gaming is not like speeding where something or someone can be harmed. But I think that the government will find a way to revise it so that what they intended it to cover is covered, and other parts that are just in their becuase because of cicumstance.
Reply
Saint_Michael
Jul 9 2005, 02:04 AM
put it like this greece just lost a lot of tourism and money i tell you this i be damn if i pay fine cuz i have a cell phone and that i need when traveling. might as well ban all froms of entertainment too while they are at. i blame the parents for that law going into effect.
Reply
rvalkass
Jul 9 2005, 08:40 AM
Why? Why on earth would they ban video games, especially in private homes. OK, people playing GameBoys in public can be annoying, especially on a long train journey, but in their own home? Where is the logic behind that? Perhaps someone from Greece can enlighten us on this strange law?
Reply
Becca
Jul 9 2005, 09:23 AM
Sometimes people relate game playing to the way a person acts or what they do. But why the hell are they banning all GAMES...? what is everyone going to do? Just watch TV all day...? What about online games? Is that banned too...this is seriously crazy and pathetic.
Reply
jmb2006
Jul 9 2005, 11:55 AM
QUOTE(quiksilver @ Jul 9 2005, 12:01 AM) http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/mobile/0,...,2121692,00.htmThat is carzy!! The law even includes games that come with windows and cell phones. I feel bad for those guys. I bet there are a lot of angry teenagers in Greece. If America ever does this I am moving to Canada what the hell, ban games, why? prepare yourself UK and America cause were about to get invaded by Immigrants. whats the point of going to greece if you cant bring your gameboy, lol its just pointless.
Reply
palladin
Jul 9 2005, 02:43 PM
 And what is next, drink a water with bubles ? I can expec somthing like this from Iraq or other SouthEastern countrys but Greece is civilizated UnitedEurope Member ?!? ... i think this law will be baned by UE when Greece Goverment lose a process with people. -------------------- Practice is when evrything is work but no one know why. Theory is when work nothing but evry one know why. Programmers join Practice with Theory - nothing work and no one know why 
Reply
Cerb
Jul 9 2005, 03:15 PM
This seems to me a horribly pathetic move on Greece's part. Banning video games will not get anyone anywhere. It will not cut down on violence. It will not change the way people act. It will do nothing more than make quite a few people extremely mad.
Reply
dexter
Jul 9 2005, 03:55 PM
That's interesting. Anyone actually from Greece that knows the reasoning behind this? If one is to ban electronic games, why not all games? What makes games in an electronic form worse than those that aren't? Apparantly online chess is banned. What makes that any different from normal chess? I say throw everyone who plays games in jail. 
Reply
dexter
Jul 9 2005, 03:58 PM
Give me an edit button.  10 seconds later I see this: QUOTE "The blanket ban was decided in February after the government admitted it was incapable of distinguishing innocuous video games from illegal gambling machines,"
What a terrible mis-managed government. A decision like the makes me almost as upset as I was about the Grokster vs. MGM result (another sad day for the IT industry).
Reply
Latest Entries
AnkitGoswami
May 25 2007, 06:29 PM
wow, that's torture. how could they make a stupid law like that and what do they wish to achieve? Also how are they planning to implement this? In my city they have banned 'loud' music while driving and I can tell you, the traffic police are having a hard time implementing this.
Reply
Plenoptic
May 25 2007, 04:16 PM
Responding to what One Piece Said (too long to quote), that would explain a lot. I started reading posts and it seemed like it would sort of be impossible to do that because people can play video games in their household without anyone knowing about it. It'd be horrible to not be able to play video games but I can understand the gambling and what not outside of casinos. If people were to not go to Greece though for a law that doesn't let you play video games, that'd be pathetic because I think you can survive a few days without them because when you visit a place you are supposed to be sight seeing or whatever but I guess in the down time you'd have to do something. It'd be interesting if someone were to do that actually, get rid of bad influence but they help teach you things though too.
Reply
ONE PIECE
May 25 2007, 03:06 PM
OK LISTEN VERY GOOD YOU ALL!!!!!! I AM GREEK AND I CAN'T STAND LISTENING ALL THIS £^&*&$"!%^£^*& LISTEN GOOD!!!!!!!WHAT THE LAW SAYS IS THAT ALL THE FRUIT MACHINES AND SIMILAR KIND OF GAMES ARE BANNED BECAUSE THERE WAS AN ISSUE OF THESE GAMES BEING OUTSIDE CASINOS THUS RIPPING OF POOR GUYS LIKE TOURISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GAMES ARE NOT BANNED!!!!!!!I REPEAT ARE NOT NOT NOT BANNED!!!!!!!!!!!! GREECE HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST RATE OF GAMERS AND IT'S INTERNET CAFES ARE FULL ALL THE TIME WITH CS AND MMORPG GAMERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOEVER SPREAD THESE ROUMORS ARE $%£^%£^% AND ONLY TRY TO HINDER TOURISTS FROM TAKING VACATIONS........AND DON'T ASK HOW DO I KNOW.THAT IS BECAUSE LAWS ARE WRITTEN IN A MORE OLD VERSION OF GREEK LANGUAGE AND EITHER WAY GREEK BEING ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT LANGUAGES IT IS DIFFICULT TO TRANSILATE IT.SO THAT £$%£$^% REPORTER CAN GO BURN IN HELL AND CHECK HIS RESOURCES BEFORE WRITING!!!!EVEN IF IT WAS TRUE THIS IS GREECE AND WE DON'T CARE ABOUT HALF-*bottom* LAWS, WE WOULD GO IN THE STREETS, PROTEST AND CHANGE IT!FREEDOM OF SPEECH!DON'T BE AFRAID ABOUT BAD TASTE PROPAGANDA THANKS FOR LISTENING ANND COME TO GREECE.THE BEST WEATHER, BEST BEACHES, BEST NIGHT LIFE UNTIL MORNING AND BEST GIRLS
Reply
Darker333
Jul 26 2005, 03:57 AM
...HOW CAN YOU BAN VIDEO GAMES!? This is.. unbelievable. Its like taking a part of modern society and locking it up. Wow.... this is... I feel sorry for the people who live there
Reply
Inspiron
Jul 23 2005, 03:33 PM
Did Greece banned olympic games too? They made a name for themselves in the previous few olympic games. It will be weird if they ban it too...
Reply
Similar Topics
Keywords : games, banned, greece, face, fine
- Jopak's Psp Games Thread
review of psp games (0)
Free Games Like Wow?
(5) NOT RUNESCAPE (I HATE THAT GAME) I am addicted to World of Warcraft, and its using up all my money
I don't want to pay all that money a month because I am just a student. I was wondering if there
was any cheaper or free alternatives to World of Warcraft? I heard guildwars was pretty good, but I
think thats around the same price?....
Fps/tps Co-op Games
Finding them is hard, but when you do... (1) This post is for FPS/TPS games ONLY. Alrighty now, that is my first post so be gentle on me.
Firstable let me introduce myself: I've played loads of loads of games, and I can consider
myself as a gamer, and I study in a school of "gamers", by that I mean that most of them are just
geeks that play MMORPG's like WOW and stuff... the other part are athletes that play NFL Madden
but most of the school is built of people who actually play in great games that came out not so
recently ago, like Crysis, F.E.A.R (Which is kind of old now) and The Orange Box (Not talking....
Download Little Games
(2) Hello everyone, I am a little find some games for my little cousin, I found something very
interesting .. Log on this site will find a multitude of games for kids, not large somewhere a
few kb somewhere to 400 mb max size, if you know and are a good site writte in this topic ..
/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />....
Warlords Series And Other Turn Based Strategy Games
Both RTS (Battlecry) and TBS (0) So are there any fans of any of the above mentioned games? Personally Warlords series is one of my
favorite game series and definitely has the best music. Other great games I have enjoyed very much
are Disciples, Age of Wonders and Lords of Magic. How about you?....
Can We Host Games With Webhosting This Site Provides?
Uhm yea I was wondering (1) Well, yea the topic name pretty much explains it all. Does this webhosting service let you host
games such as mafia games and script? Because I need to know! Thanks all!....
What Would Life Be Like Without Game Consoles/handhelds?
We always ask this question about computers, so why not Games? (12) We always ask what life would be like without computers, but did we ever stop to think what our life
would be like if the other stuff we took for granted wasn't here anymore? There are
practically thousands of things that our life might feel empty without, so maybe we should start
asking this question for those things too? I know there are a lot of Gamers out there, some of
which couldn't last a minute if they didn't have their PS3 or XBox 360 or whatever console
they have within standing distance of them. And I know there are many of you who are not so ha....
Pro-lifers: What Should Be The Penalty For Abortion?
and why should abortion be banned? (10) I'm just intrigued by people who oppose abortion. They say it's baby killing, but most of
them don't support the death penalty or life-in-prison for women who have abortions. Why do
you support banning abortion? When a woman kills her (born) children, what should the punishment be?
When a woman has an abortion, what should the punishment be? If the punishment is different, why?....
Pendragon
This is probably my most favorite book on the face of the earth. (3) Has anyone ever heard of pendragon? It is a 6 book series, and its very very adventurous, (if thats
a word). I only have 5/6 books but am working at the 6th one.....
Found Free Mobile Games Wallpapers And Themes
(2) Hey, i've found this site that has lots of free mobile games in .jar .jad and .sis file format
for many phone models. Theres also lots of wallpapers and themes too.
http://www.techagesite.com/free_mobile_games.htm ....
Acne And Face Treatments
(3) Can anybody recommend any anti-acne and face treatments that actually work? I've tried a variety
and they don't seem to work. Certain times my skin can get really bad.....
Prizee
Play Flash Games for Real Prizes? (3) Hey, I found this site today browsing the web. It's a flash game site (of pretty high quality
though) that's free to play. The cool thing is that you earn like coins or something whenever
you play and you can cash them in for some pretty good prizes. The downside is that the good prizes
cost quite a bit of coins and the games are aimed mainly at kids but if you want to check it out,
here's a link . Cheers mates No Referral links are allowed on this forum. Please review
yourself with the Trap17 ReadMe ....
Addiction To Games
(34) So I was watching the News the other day, which is slightly unusual to me when a Report came up on
Video Game Addictions. I thought this was sort of weird, because Video games don't contain
nicotine, or an addictive substance, at least I hope, but further on the Report started to make more
sense. It explained Video Games cause a psychological addiction ,and the addiction occurs because of
the experience, and the good feeling you get from playing them. I am a gamer myself and never
realized the addiction, so this Report sort of scarred me a bit. Now that I look back o....
Power Supply Unit (psu)
Computer restarting while playing games (7) I have read in a lot of forums about the importance of this component. And with regards to my
problem of the computer restarting while playing games, this could very well be the reason but I
can't confirm anything. When I bought my graphics card Winfast A6200 TD, a minimum of 400w
output was needed from the psu and that was I had. But is the psu actually causing the problem of my
computer restarting? That the psu does not have enough power to handle the functions of the graphics
card? I was playing PES 6 (Pro Evolution Soccer 6) and everything seemed fine until i....
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Online Multiplayer Mode
For those who love GTA San Andreas and online games (10) Hi, I've been a fan of GTA series, but i always wanted to play those games with other players.
Well, now thats possible. A while ago i found a mod that makes you play the GTA San Andreas game
online, and ive been playing it, so now i would like to share it with you all. With this mod you
can connect to lots of servers, with a big variety of game modes, like DM, TDM, Area 51 break in,
Money making, and one of the newest ones, League, that is a RPG game mode where you can create an
account, earn cash, save it to a bank, buy houses and cars, become a police and lots of....
Flash Games
(4) Hi guys!!!! I was searching some Flash games. Maybe some one of you can give me an
help about that!!!!! You know, I need to create a particulare effect that
alllow me to do some knid of 3d room, where you can trun around your self and whach walls. Than I
will put link in tha walls, so that I will create a Labyrint game. any suggestion is apreciated
ALEXVIII....
Mortal Kombat
The legendary games. (26) Mortal kombat has been played for years at arcades and even homes. It first started in arcades.
Mortal kombat 1 very good graphics back then.(If I said that in are 2006 I would be laughed at) It
was not ment to go as far as it did they were planning to go to about 2 games. But they way more.
Games for Sega Gamecube Ps2. The highest rated was Mortal Kombat Deadly Aliance. Starting with the
first game there were a group of people working against them trying to stop them. They thought the
games were to unapropriate for most viewers under the age of 18. I would not want to ....
Selling Used Games At Eb
How much money do they give you? (15) I'm thinking about selling some of my old games I never play anymore to EB, and I was just
wondering, how much money would they give me? For example, if I sell a game that they sell for
$10 on the used rack (and it's actually only on the used rack) how much money would they
give me?....
Blogging Sites Going To Be Banned In India ?
(16) cyber crimes police in india are considering blocking blogs and certain sites which they believe are
being used by terrorists to communicate with each other and it sure is going to create a lot of heat
within the blogging community in india,i am not a blogger but i dont think people like al qaeda or
their affiliates will be using internet to communicate within themselves because they are
intelligent and they know every conversation whether in codes or not can be traced back to them , i
just dont think any big fish will use such risks but on the other hand small time al q....
Extract Music From Games
Plz Help me (20) Are ther any tools or any method to extract the music from games. Usually they are some unknown
format or stored in a compressed file. Is there any method to extract these music from the games.
Please help me.....
Carnival Games-the Biggest Ripoff
(12) I've done tons of carnival games in my life, but here are the ones that I think are the biggest
ripoffs: 1. The basketball game. Those rims are so screwed up, Michael Jordan couldn't even
make it. 2. I don't know what it was called, but you have to cover this big circle with 5 round
discs. None of the circle can be showing in order to win. 1 chance for $3, 2 chances for
$5. If you did it successfully twice, you won an Xbox 360! I thought that sounded
promising, so I gave it a try. Of course, the person working the booth kept doing it perfectly....
Jucied
must be one of the worst racing games i have ever played (5) this game must be the worst racing games i have ever played, the cars don't handle well,
don't look nice and on top of all that you don't even have much fun playing it. I think that
i will stick to need for speed much better and the new most wanted is awesome with it's new
format it has. I suppose maybe we are to used to need for speed's racing games and when we play
other ones there is little chance they will much up to the standards that need for speed have set
!!!....
Remove Spots From Pimples From Face
fable or really the solution to get rid of those ugly (15) I would really want an even skin in my face. I have cicatrices and spots. Guess what I heard?!
Those spots from sqeeuzed pimples in your face, can be removed with a cream used for piles!!
This is something I heard for many times now... It's weird but is this true????????????....
Xbox Games For Girls?
any recommendations? (24) Well we just got an xbox, I know there are tons of games out there but I don't know most of the
games out there... I'm just wondering if there are any that appeal especially to girls?
/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /> Those that I've
enjoyed so far - Star Wars Battlefront - Topspin In case you were wondering, nope, FIFA does not
interest me. /tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' />
Anything else? Hoping you could throw up a few names, maybe link me to someplace I could ....
Slow Connection With Linksys Wrt54g Router
working fine until few months ago (7) Hey there everybody! I need some help. Here's the problem. I have a Linksys Wireless WRT54G
v5 router, which, I think, is acting up. First of all, I can't get port forwarding to work!
About three month ago my port forwarding was working flawlessly, I could use download clients like
DC++, or BitComet, or have an ftp server running, etc... Now, whichever ports I use, nothing seems
to work. Plus, in clients like DC++ where you're connected to several hubs, the connection to
the hubs is constantly dropped. On top of that, the joke's on me actually....
Why Dont Have Burnout Games For Pc?
please EA make a burnout version for PC (11) i opened this place for we tell a reason why EA would make a Burnout version for PC. OMG they are
losting money. Burnout is the best racing game i ever ever played, think about in playing on lan
with 10 friends? every one today have a joystick for pc, so the game feeling was the same please EA
we are clamming for you to make a version to pc, is so hard to make it? i would apreciate if your
guys postion your feelings too, tkz....
Google Adsense And Getting Banned....
(39) Ok about 5 months ago I got banned from google adsense for invalid clicks. I still deny that but
could you re-apply. Has anyone ever re-applyed and successful got their account back. They never
responded to my e-mails. Also anyone know a site like google adsense. Thanks!!....
Know Of Any Online Games Like Runescape Or Ragnarok?
(42) I only no a few i need more....
Games = Tough Work?
Do You Sweat Whilst Playing Games? (21) Well a few weeks ago I was playing Tony Hawk's Underground 2 on my Xbox and I was furiously
trying to beat my high record combo. After about a hour of this I was actually sweaty and I just
felt like stopping playing and have a shower. Does anyone else sweat when they play games?
Message from snlildude87: /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />
....
Video Games Are A Complete Waste Of Time, Face It!
(145) C'mon face it, video games are a complete waste of your time! Every time you turn on your
console you should be asking yourself "Is there something better I should be doing with my time...
like reading a good book... or watching a good movie... or flirting with a beautiful girl? Do I get
anything out of this, does this make me a better person?"....
Looking for games, banned, greece, face, fine
|
|
Searching Video's for games, banned, greece, face, fine
|
advertisement
|
|
