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British Video Recordings Act 1984 Invalid
chrb writes "BBC News is reporting that the British Video Recordings Act 1984 is invalid due to a 25 year old legal blunder. The Thatcher government of the day failed to officially "notify" the European Commission about the law, and hence it no longer stands as a legal Act. There will now be a period of around three months before the Act can be passed again, during which time it will be entirely legal to sell any video content without age-rated certifications."
Great post! Slashdot really needs a "+1 refers to '1984' somehow" mod option.
Ah! So if they up their standards they are legally required to tell other countries "Up yours!"
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Isn't the Labour party in power? Aren't they the good guys? Won't they pass a sensible, populist law?
-Peter
Mr Patel from the corner shop - he already does.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Only after tea but before supper.
mod this +1 funny!
I think by now you've ran out of continents to ship these people off to
+1, Car Analogy.
I applaud your use of monster trucks as an allegory to human genitalia ;).
Those "no-longer restricted videos" have as much to do with teaching sex as a monster truck rally has to do with teaching you how to drive.
Exactly: it will teach you how to do it THE AWESOME WAY.
It's not a big truck... it's more of a series of tubes.
If I was a French citizen and I was sitting in jail due to a nullified-UK law, I'd be pissed.
I'd immediately file a case with the Supreme Reichstag (or whatever the EU equivalent of the Supreme Court might be). EU citizens should not be punished by laws that are voided.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
If I were you, the "Supreme Reichstag" would not be the first place I would go to file a case.
Unless, of course, you usually file your legal cases in the House of Representatives sixty years ago.
If that's what you do then you're fine.
Always back up, never back down. ---- Think you're cool 'cos your uid is prime? Take mine, modulo the one digit integers
Those "no-longer restricted videos" have as much to do with teaching sex as a monster truck rally has to do with teaching you how to drive.
Exactly: it will teach you how to do it THE AWESOME WAY.
But only on Sunday, SUNDAY, SSUUUNNNNNNNDAAAAY~!!!!!
Gordon Brown can finally play those Region 1 DVDs he got from Obama! Oh, happy day.
What are you talking about? Britain doesn't even have a constitution.
No problemo. They can take ours. We're sure not using it.
It's ok, we have one, we just haven't told the European Commission about it.
Oh crap.