Hey Germany:

FUUCCCKKKK YOUUUUUU!!

Mit lieben Gruesen aus Oestrerreich

"See some games are band in Germany"

Banned?

@Matthew Razak

I was just stating the obvious incidentary stuff.

*facepalm*

Once again I'm so ashamed of my government.

Just so you know: there's quite the opposition to the whole "banning" and "internet filtering" stuff here at the moment, the politicians just don't seem to have caught up with reality yet. I voted for the German Pirate-Party during the recent elections for the European parliament, and so did a lot of others.

Please don't view these actions as typical for the general German population. There's a superb gaming-scene here (mainly PC-centered) and CS and TF2 are really, reaaaallllly big around these parts.

Why the fuck do you even think we would care about anything the EU thinks about America?

Hopefully this anti-videogame rhetoric won't invade Poland.

Oh dear it seems like Euprope is getting crappier and crappier EVERY SECOND!

@Trunxkam45

I know man but everyone's so afraid of imigrants and muslims (Muslims are the new Jews) the BNP gets more popular every moment thanks to so many people's stupid opinions. How did someone work out the logic that if your born in a country you don't deserve as many rights as someone who's been born at the same time as you because your family haven't been in there long enough?

@ PwnanObrien, I see what you did there.

this is weird...and lame...and weirdly lame.
i live in canada where our government just yells at each other on top of a hill and nothing really ever changes.

@ Mr Wrighty 987:
i am laughing at your expense.

And this is why no one will ever get over the Nazis.

@Kris S

An independent Scotland would be an utter joke. 'Yay! INDEPENDENCE' 'OH CRAP WE'RE REALLY POOR NOW'

A little bit of correction here: The whole fuss is not about people in Germany DOWNLOADING banned games from foreign websites, it's simply about being able to PURCHASE banned games from foreign online shops. The fact that the bavarian KJM is only targeting Austrian shops is a mystery to me, by the way - I'd say that game imports from the UK are much more popular.

Anyway, the funny thing is: Even if this stunningly ludicrous ban request should be successful (which I strongly doubt, to be honest), there would be no palpable legal consequences. Obviously, Austrian retailers are not subject to German jurisdiction, so they really couldn't be stopped from shipping items to Germany; neither would it become punishable for German customers to continue procuring game imports from Austria. Nothing would have been achieved, perhaps with the sole exception of those online shops in question being blocked from Google Germany, and not being allowed to advertise at German partner websites anymore.

Long story short: There is no such thing as media competence to be found in German administrations, only unteachable blockheads disdaining one of the most seminal economic sectors of our time. But there are elections to be won on the back of a heated public debate, which means hasty actionism und populist incrimination. Those people are LITERALLY claiming that correlation of violence and games PROVES causation. What else is there to say about their integrity as politicians, let alone their common sense?