Banned Games Find Ways To Bypass Authority 58
Stony Stevenson writes "PC World reports that digital downloads and online distribution is making the regulation of banned computer games impossible. Running with Scissors has employed a new sales channel that allows its controversial Postal games to be downloaded direct to consumers' PCs. This has created a grey area between content regulators and classification enforcers that allows end users to receive banned content unchecked. From the article: 'The Australian Communications and Media Authority hotline manager of content assessment, Mike Barnard conceded that preventing distribution was not conclusive and the only foolproof method of stopping people downloading banned content was if they chose not to.'"
In other news... (Score:5, Insightful)
education is the key (Score:5, Insightful)
choice (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Not true... (Score:2, Insightful)
Right and Wrong, Fantasy and Reality (Score:4, Insightful)
Or perhaps if people knew the difference between fantasy and reality, fewer people would go see movies and watch television and begin to wake from their unrealistic dreams?
Re:Not true... (Score:4, Insightful)
Now, information is way easier to smuggle and hide than illicit substances. Especially in the age of the Internet. Expect any attemps to ban games to be as effective as the "War on Drugs".
Didn't Australia ban online gambling (Score:2, Insightful)
Or, even better - stop nannying their citizens.
Re:In other news... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Right and Wrong, Fantasy and Reality (Score:3, Insightful)
What the government should not do is attempt to define FOR ME what is right and wrong, I should decide that for myself and my children (and when they are grown they can decide for themselves), the only time the government should be involved is when my actions affect another person's above stated rights granted under the constituion... I live in the USA and expect these rights...