Leisure Suit Larry Banned

An anonymous reader writes "Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude has been refused classification and banned by the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) due to its sexual content. Being produced by Sierra, Larry's exploits are more cheeky than they could ever be offensive, so is this really justified? Oh well, off to bit torrent I go..."

Comments

Why?

[JavaLord]

refused classification and banned by the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) due to its sexual content.

Maybe some of our Australian friends can help us out with this, but why would they ban this game? It can't be any worse than an "American Pie" type movie, or any other recent comedy films. Is Australia this strict with it's movies also?

Re:Why?

[jc42]

The first thing that occurred to me was "I wonder who they had to bribe to get it banned?"

This should be even better than an X rating. I'll bet they're shipping out lots of copies to the "underground" dealers right now.

(Here in the US, there are open discussions in the media of the lengths that producers sometimes go to in order to get an R rating, which is the minimum that will bring in most adults. Sometimes they have to add a nude/sex scene that has nothing to do with the plot, just to get that all-important rating. ;-)

Sheesh, what is up with Australia?

[sgant]

It's like what's next...they're going to outlaw all forms of sex there too to "protect the children".

Growing up, always thought that Australia was this free wheeling, laid back country...but they seem more uptight and puritan than the US (Janet Jackson's evil nipple not withstanding).

Is it really that bad "down there"? (decypher "down under" any way you want)

Who Cares?

[TheRealMindChild]

Sure it is a whole country that Sierra can't sell to, but I think the very content that they are banning the game for is the very reason a lot of people play the game (or at least got into the series in the first place), so changing it in any regard to get around the sensorship would comprimise the marketability of the game.

Eventually, we will look back on these days when we tried to control the media content people were exposed to and laugh.... or we will all be in cages with a barcode tattooed to our necks.

Re:Copy it?

[QuantumG]

"copyright theft" is not an actual crime, you just made it up or are repeating some bastardization of the law. Here in Australia we don't have criminal copyright infringement, that's some crazy shit the americans made up. On the other hand, you're statement about importing is more debatable. I'll just ask my girlfriend who happens to work in freight and knows all the customs regulations. She says that customs would not be involved because they don't regulate internet traffic. Recently some movie critics were apauled that Ken Park was refused classification. They decided to import it and put on a screening. These are well respected movie critics and it would not do to have them locked up and thrown in jail for importing the movie. So thier lawyers instructed them to send the film over the net (with the permission of the creators of the film) and this would not be considered importing it. They did this and when they announced the public screening of the film the police showed up and took the CD out of the drive and physically prohibited them from playing it.