Bad news from Greece

BBC NEWS | Technology | Greek net cafes face ruin
Looks any celebrations regarding the demise of the Greek ban on computer gaming were premature. The Taliban-like Greek government has now appealed against the court throwing out their insane law as unconstitutional, and are now using underhand tactics to enforce it - such as confiscating computers from cybercafes and then setting a trial date months into the future, by which time their victims will financally ruined whatever the outcome of the court case might turn out to be.

Posted by TimHall at September 20, 2002 07:28 PM | TrackBack

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