OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
Proposed legislation introduced this week could see the banning of all violent video games in a popular reaction to recent school shootings. No Call of Duty 3, Resistance: Fall of Man or Gears of War for Germanic gamers.
The Financial times is reporting on the bill - revealed in Lower Saxony and Bavaria and to be scrutinised by parliament next year - that could see the censorship of many favoured (and high selling) violent games.
In 2003 German rules were amended to reduce violence depicted in games, such as blood spurts and similar. This has resulted in some titles sporting a German and "everybody else" version system.
The proposed amendment to this legislation is to expand this ban to all violence depicting human or human looking protagonists. Doing a quick mental catalogue in my head, this would reduce the stock of video game outlets by a large percentage.
The report goes on to state "A poll taken after last month's shooting at a secondary school in Emsdetten showed 72 per cent of respondents blaming such incidents on violent games and 59 per cent supporting a ban".
At this point I am yet to see scientific proof to provide the link, but as we all know, politics is by in large, not a scientific pursuit. It is more about being on the right side (read Popular side) of polls like the one quoted above.
David Frost
| SYDNEY– February 9, 2012. Gigamon®, the world leader in Traffic Visibility Fabric solutions, announced that it has expanded the breadth and s…
How to Make Business Discovery Work for Your Business
Business Discovery takes its cues from consumer apps. Like Google, it encourages us- ers to hunt for and explore data without worrying about or even noticing the underly- ing technology. Their entire experience is working within an intuitive interface to get real-time, self-service results with only minimal training. ...more
Try an easy-to-use set of web-enabled
tools for business-class productivity services. Office 365 provides
anywhere-access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars
on almost any device.
LATEST HEADLINES FROM YOUR IT
