Did Europe pass a new sex comic law?

Visual Novel Community Archive, 2000-2009
#21

If I remember correctly, one of the things that G8 wanted to do is pass a law that will make websites* answerable to international law and not to their local laws. Example, pirate bay will not longer be able to say “we are legal in the country we are operating from” but instead will be forced to shutdown and the operators will be fined. Japan was one of the countries that supported this, because they are losing a lot of revenue in the anime market.

I don’t know what have come of that talk (it should have happened last year), but I guess (my guess) that they didn’t agree on how the law to be implemented**.

  • by websites, they singled out p2p trackers that generated revenue from advertisements, but again they are passing a law and not targeting certain websites.

** example, the BNP party in the UK might be legal in the British legal system, but in many places (including the UN) it might be deemed illegal. So what should happen, protect the freedom of speech or follow the international law?

P.S. reminder, am not a lawyer and I am just typing from what I remember I read sometime ago.

#22

Requesting a source on the Tetris claim.

#23

Greek govt bans all computer games (2002, Sep)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/09/04 … _computer/

Greece lifts computer games ban (2002, Sep)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/09/25 … games_ban/

Greece to face Euro court over video games ban (2004, Oct)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/14 … _to_court/

Greek electronic game ban (Wiki)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_electronic_game_ban

I don’t know what have become of the ban, but I think it is not being enforced, otherwise it would have made the headlines.

#24

This will NEVER HAPPEN. It would result in the Internet being forced to effectively shut down.

First, as an aside: All the anime downloading is already illegal. A lot of people think fansubs are somehow OK. (I saw some guys on a fansubbing group’s board saying takedowns were complete BS and insisting what they were doing was legal.) They are not. It is, and always has been, illegal to do what fansubbers do. Copyrights have international enforceability. Nobody ever got on their case before, because it was analog tapes being copied around and the Code provided the rest of the insulation needed. Now that the Code is effectively dead and it’s all digital files, guess what, the industry’s taking it in the shorts.

That aside – this is a retarded idea. Do you want PP to be subject to the laws of Iran? Saudi Arabia? Bear in mind that their activities are punishable by death in these places. Should the BBC be subject to the laws of oppressive regimes like Zimbabwe’s that make reporting on their oppressive activities a crime? I agree that right now, people engaging in online crime have effectively got themselves impunity from the law. And this is very bad, and we need internationsl cooperation to deal with the cybercrooks. But this is not the solution, and until we are united in one government under the New World Order, it won’t ever be the solution :slight_smile:

#25