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You're A Criminal For Making Video Games; Brazil hates gamers, it's official.
Topic Started: Dec 4 2009, 04:46 PM (168 Views)
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NOT. GIVING. UP. YET.
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http://www.destructoid.com/brazil-plots-to-have-game-making-a-criminal-offense-156812.phtml

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Brazilian Senator Valdir Raupp is no friend of videogames. In fact, he finds them so offensive that he recently drafted a bill to make it illegal to make, sell or import any videogames deemed troublesome in the eyes of the Brazilian government. Rather than deal with real criminal issues, the Senate has approved the proposal, which means it will now be voted on in the Committee on Constitution and Justice.

Raupp aims to "curb the manufacture, distribution, importation, distribution, trading and custody, storage, the video games that affect the customs, traditions of the people, their worship, creeds, religions and symbols."

"Therefore," he continues, "we seek to protect the principle of equality -- for many the greatest of constitutional principles -- with the characterization of such discriminatory conduct as a crime by making provision in the law."

Brazil has banned games such as Carmageddon, Postal and Grand Theft Auto in the past, and if Raupp gets his way, many more bans will follow. Anybody caught breaking this law could face up to three years in prison. Yes, prison -- all for the crime of making a videogame.

What on Earth is wrong with human beings?


People just do the darnest things, don't they!?
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~wildwood~
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that is the most retarded thing i ever heard>:(
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I just _____ in the _____.

Actually I heard Greece had already banned videogames. Either way, it can't stick, not forever anyway. There are too many gamers these days, not to mention current gamers are getting older, and the curmudgeonly non-gamers with their misunderstanding attitudes are dying off.

In a nutshell: The gamers shall inherit the earth.

Until then, I'll be spray-painting 8-bit Marios all over Brazil.
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beflexor
Dec 6 2009, 12:10 AM
Actually I heard Greece had already banned videogames. Either way, it can't stick, not forever anyway. There are too many gamers these days, not to mention current gamers are getting older, and the curmudgeonly non-gamers with their misunderstanding attitudes are dying off.

In a nutshell: The gamers shall inherit the earth.

Until then, I'll be spray-painting 8-bit Marios all over Brazil.
I'm already working on that template as we speak LOL
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