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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
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.
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.
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