Re: quake2 and german youth protection law
* Kai Blin:
> * Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> [14/06/05, 13:57:02]:
>
>> But this doesn't matter at all. Our guardians became frustrated with
>> the necessity to index both the German translation and the original,
>> so they installed a mandatory rating system for computer games
>> (similar to movies in Germany and other countries). The main problem
>> isn't that quake2 is a violent game, but that it's a game. "M-x
>> tetris RET" has the same problem.
>
> No, it doesn't. The "or similar games" goes both ways.
Are you sure? Is this some kind of regulations adopted by the Länder?
Approval by analogy is not part of JuschG.
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