As off topic as it is I think it's more crazy that actions of the US would make it end up on a torture state list from Canada.

this is just a country banning a video game and depending on the self procrlaimed gamer population it might only be temporary.

Originally posted by paulscott

As off topic as it is I think it's more crazy that actions of the US would make it end up on a torture state list from Canada.

off-topic:

It's not crazy, the US still uses the death penalty. I think the US is actually the only western nation that still uses it.

And Guantánamo Bay is an example of disregarding the Geneva Convention and a violation of human rights and the use of torture.

Oh what you can do when your a military & economical super power...

hehe nice one Brazil.

Originally posted by tkreep

Who cares about brazil?

...yeah.

why does the pinguin article read like a 5th grader wrote it?

This is almost as retarded as the US ban of online poker.  I'm really sick of people who want to control other people's lifes in such insignificant issues.

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Originally posted by Consensus

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Originally posted by tkreep

Who cares about brazil?

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Yeah because americas the greatest country in the world.
And its not as if the rain forest is important to the planet america is in.

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Yeah because this so called "ban" of EQ/CS will burn them all down.

Seriously, think before you type.

Everquest is a bit random isn't it? An old mmo that I wouldn't really have thought was played much in Brazil. No mention to any other mmos or fpses? This is truely bizarre, or a joke.

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Originally posted by zaxxon23
This is almost as retarded as the US ban of online poker. I'm really sick of people who want to control other people's lifes in such insignificant issues.

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The ban on Poker in the US carries far more substantive reasons than a game that may be subversive to a society.

Originally posted by candygirl6

 

Originally posted by paulscott

As off topic as it is I think it's more crazy that actions of the US would make it end up on a torture state list from Canada.

off-topic:

 

It's not crazy, the US still uses the death penalty. I think the US is actually the only western nation that still uses it.

And Guantánamo Bay is an example of disregarding the Geneva Convention and a violation of human rights and the use of torture.

Every single country on the face of the earth kills people - one way or another. Abortion. Euthanasia. Poor regulatory oversight leading to deaths from chemical, nuclear, or biological incidents [e. coli., chernobyl, ...]

Stick to games or rail against civilization and every politcal machine on the planet to be fair [well okay, maybe the vatican doesnt kill ... or does it??? hmmm]

x

Wonders if PETA will launch a video game ad similar to the current moronic teenage sex ad it just released.

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off-topic:

It's not crazy, the US still uses the death penalty. I think the US is actually the only western nation that still uses it.

And Guantánamo Bay is an example of disregarding the Geneva Convention and a violation of human rights and the use of torture."

How about keeping your politics out of my peanut butter.

What truly boggles me with this that Brazil has sooooo many other problems then computer games, I have lived in brazil and have an brazilian wife so I know a lot about what is going on down there.

CS was truly popular there yeah but most of the ppl in the internet cafes were just hanging on Orkut which is similar to myspace.

Brazil is one crazy country where you can find corruption at every corner at any level of the goverment. Imho they should try to fight that and the poverty instead of everquest lol.

Im a lawyer from Brazil and Im shocked. This is just... WOW. This is nothing like I learned from judge and prosecutor schools.

It makes me remember a decision where access to youtube was banned for everyone in Brasil  just because a model had its "privacity" violated when a movie of her making sex with her boyfriend on a beach was posted on youtube. Some time later the decision was reviewed.

http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/7747/54/

That would be exactly like the episode when youtube was banned. Im 100% sure that either the Superior Court of Justice or the Supreme Court will review the decision.

Here is how our justice structure works: We have the Supreme Federal Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal) wich interprets our Constitution and gives political decisions (when the law enforcement can be detrimental to aspects like State Finances, for example) and below that we have Superior Court of Justice (Superior Tribunal de Justiça) wich interprets federal laws only. Federal Laws are applied through all the estates of our Federation.

Below the Superior Court of Justice we have the Regional Federal Courts (Tribunais Regionais Federais)  whose jurisdiction is determined by the region where they are in. We have 5 of those Regional Federal Courts. The one that proclaimed the banning of games was responsible for 1 region of Brazil and the law in wich it was based is a federal one (the one about consumer rights) along with the Federal Constitution.

That decision will have to be validated by Superior Court of Justice and even so, it will also have to be validated by the Supreme Federal Court.

Originally posted by Consensus

 

Originally posted by tkreep

Who cares about brazil?

Yeah because americas the greatest country in the world.

 

And its not as if the rain forest is important to the planet america is in.

And Brazil cares so much that they raze those same rain forests . Again, who cares about Brazil and some apparently undereducated ( i.e. stupid and moronic ) lawmakers?

Originally posted by Zorvan

Originally posted by Consensus

 

Originally posted by tkreep

Who cares about brazil?

Yeah because americas the greatest country in the world.

 

And its not as if the rain forest is important to the planet america is in.

And Brazil cares so much that they raze those same rain forests . Again, who cares about Brazil and some apparently undereducated ( i.e. stupid and moronic ) lawmakers?

Jesus, and you wonder why the rest of the world hates the US lately.

The cutting of the rain forests is for 90% under western contractors, not brazilian.

Brazil's biggest importer is the US. Over 20% of what Brazil buys comes from the US.

I'm sure you wouldn't care if you loose your job tomorrow because Brazil stops buying your goods right.

Just to clear up some confusion, the Rain Forests are not nearly as important to the ecology of the world as tree hugging hippies would have you believe.  For a very long time, the myth of the Rain Forests being the "Lungs of the Earth" was propagated as a truth throughout the US.  No one questioned it.  It was always just seen as such a terrible thing to do to cut down the Rain Forests because it would eventually starve our planet of oxygen, and raise carbon dioxide levels, cause global warming, blah blah blah, etc etc.. heckety schmeckety.

Its bull pucky.

The vast vast majority of oxygen is produced by sea plankton, and always has.  How do you think the planet was terraformed in the first place?  Its not like trees have always been here. The entirety of the worlds rain forests could be burned down tomorrow, and we'd still breath just fine.  Plankton accounts for the single largest collection of biomass on the planet by a significant margin.

Now please continue discussing some judge who thinks far too much of himself to claim that violent video games cause violent behavior, with all research to date showing no such conclusion...

Originally posted by BuzWeaver

Laughable. A nation with nearly the highest level of sexually transmitted disease and they go after the game industry.

QFT, youd think theyd love MMOs in Brazil , theyre one of the greatest ways to insure abstinence, and thus hampering the spread of disease.

I think that the Judge in question probably got his rump handed to him in those two games and this is his response. The ultimate ban hammer.....

Hooray! Next thing you know, the brazilian leader will "elect" to remove their peoples right to free speech, take control of schools, and control the airwaves of radio and tv. Just like in Venesuala (sp)!

Yay communism!

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