Greek Gaming Law Defeated In Court
News A Greek law banning all electronic games in public has been declared unconstitutional by a court that has dismissed two separate cases against three people charged under the law. In the run-up to Tuesday's court cases, the Greek gaming and Internet...
[September 11, 2002, 13:27]
Greece Warned Over Gaming 'mess'
News The Greek government has been warned by the European Commission over a law it passed last year that seemed to ban all computer games. Robertson believes the Greek parliament never intended the law to ban all computer games: "The way the Greek law...
[July 24, 2003, 11:33]
Greek Government Backs Down On Gaming
News The law had threatened to criminalise ordinary people and tourists, and the Greek gaming and Internet cafe communities have been up in arms since the legislation was passed at the end of July. Several employees of Greek Internet cafes were arrested...
[September 25, 2002, 11:05]
Gamers Face Jail In Greece
News The law applies equally to visitors from abroad: "If you know these things are banned, you should not bring them in," said the commercial attaché at the Greek Embassy in London -- who declined to give her name.
[September 3, 2002, 12:55]
Programmer Faces Greek Jail Over Spam Claims
News In 2002, the Greek authorities passed a law banning all electronic games in an attempt to stamp out illegal gambling. The Greek police have arrested a Swedish programmer, claiming that he advertised and sold pharmaceutical products on the Web, a...
[November 4, 2005, 17:00]
Gamers Face Jail In Greece
Talkback Doesn't the Greek government know that Windows come with games pre-installed? isn't there some sort of violation to arrest and fine tourists that have no idea about the law that visit Greece? What bullshit.
[July 13, 2005, 3:15]
Gamers Face Jail In Greece
Talkback Give me just a name of any single person of greek or of any other nationality who was fined for carrying a mobile phone or his favourite console in Greece.For your own information the law pertains only to certain internet cafes and the "illegal...
[October 1, 2004, 1:14]
Amazon Greece Fight Heats Up
News As you are aware, Amazon.com is prevented in Greek law from owning a .gr domain name. Speaking from Greece on Thursday via telephone, Smith, who said he is a US citizen, strenuously denied Amazon.com's charges, and complained he was characterised...
[August 20, 1999, 8:37]
UN Attacks Tech Giants Over China Co-operation
News A Greek blogger was reportedly arrested last week for linking to libellous material, but Roussopoulos said he was not familiar with the case. A global consensus means first solving "the problems of different understanding of meaning and different...
[November 1, 2006, 9:42]
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Leader Good luck in finding out: the register of interests is held as hundreds of individual hand-written documents in the language of the MEPs themselves (how's your Greek? For example, he worked for a Seattle law and lobbying firm for the six years...
[January 13, 2006, 9:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The US has said pish and tush to that, as has the Greek government; as the Americans are habitually blamed for most things, we can probably discount this. That software had been installed by Voda but not properly activated - it was intended to be...
[February 10, 2006, 16:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Well, osmium is named after the Greek word "osma" -- stink. Hell, if you want to find out for yourself you can buy one online for $90 and see whether it makes you any more law-abiding. Wednesday 7/4/2004You remember the UK ID card farrago?
[April 8, 2004, 17:00]
