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Nintendo Pulls Dead Or Alive Over Porn Fears In EU

Posted by timothy on from the scandal-in-scandinavia dept.

cpu6502 writes "The new Nintendo 3DS game Dead or Alive: Dimensions is being pulled from EU member states Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. The distributor said an in-game photography mode allows players to look-up the dresses of 17-year-old Ayane, Koroke, and Kasumi — which could be considered 'child porn' by local police."

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  1. Norway isn't a member of the EU. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Norway isn't a member of the EU.

    1. Re:Norway isn't a member of the EU. by netsharc · · Score: 5, Informative

      EUR is the code for Euro, the money not the continent...

      It's not being pedantic. I live in the EU, and I've never heard of EU being "the short code for EUrope" ever. And it's not "good enough", being a member of the EU means you have to follow laws agreed by the EU, and if Norway's not in the EU, and EU has this law against looking up digital skirts, and Norway doesn't, it means it won't be illegal in Norway...

      Is that pedantic enough for you, Mr. Know It All?

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    2. Re:Norway isn't a member of the EU. by Duradin · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's a medical condition. Spawning Induced Stupidity SYndrome.

      Symptoms are irrationality, fear, and a belief that anything is justified in the name of their child.

    3. Re:Norway isn't a member of the EU. by hairyfeet · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Uhhhh who gives a fuck when the important thing is the CP witchhunt has gotten so bad a shot of a cartoon panty is considered CP which is beyond fucking ridiculous!

      Ya know when the bullshit first started I actually supported SOME of it. Oh I didn't and still don't support the truly insane amounts of time they give someone who looks at a picture without actually touching a kid themselves (because I have a friend in the state crime lab who says more than 90% of those they bust are social retards who are about as much of a threat to kids as a bowl of marshmallows, most are afraid of or avoid interactions with ANYBODY and they are looking at the same old shit that has been floating around since USENET) but the idea of cops working together internationally to find the child rapists and hunt their sorry asses down? I was ALL for that!

      But now we have literally reached the point of thoughtcrime, where it doesn't matter if any child was involved at all it is still treated as child rape! Just in the past few years we have seen a man given several years for writing his own thoughts onto paper which IIRC he was told to do by his shrink to help him work through it (thoughtcrime), a guy given several years for looking at Japanese hentai (thoughtcrime) and even one thrown in jail for looking at one of those crudely drawn Simpsons cartoons, even though legally the Simpson "kids" if they actually existed would be in their 30s!

      That is why I urge everyone to stand up, not just here but IRL as well, when these laws are abused to create thoughtcrimes. Remember folks it is NEVER the "good guy" they use to take away our rights it is ALWAYS done by using scapegoats like "terrorists" and "perverts" and "racists" because those in power know too many fear standing up for those types, for fear of being labeled as supporting their views.

      But just as my grandfather took a wall dropped on him by a Werewulf squad in WWII yet STILL stood up and said that the Illinois Nazis should have the right to march, because as he said "That is what makes us better than the system they are supporting as here ALL ideas have the right to be spoken of and discussed" so too must we stand up for those used to take away our liberties one thoughtcrime at a time. Remember the words of that wise pastor years ago: "First they came for" because those same laws stretched to cover pictures or words on a page can and WILL be abused to go after sites like wikileaks or maybe even yourself if you protest something the powerful want! Hell according to my friend at the crime lab the way the law is worded now someone could draw a stick figure and someone else write on top "nekked kid" and that would technically get you the same time as a real pic of a raped child! Does that make ANY sense to anyone here? How fucking scary can you get!

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  2. Don't RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't bother clicking the link. There aren't any pictures.

  3. CHILD!? by Windwraith · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Child? You call those virtual plastic-y goddesses of bounce physics CHILDREN?
    What is becoming of this world...?

  4. Re:A poll by u17 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Speak for yourself, I want my grave to be made of glass so I can look up girls' dresses after I die.

  5. Simple fix... by ThoughtMonster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Make them 18!

  6. Re:What the fuck is wrong with the Japanese? by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now, I'm not that big into Japanese culture. But from what I gather they're not really that "obsessed" with young girls. Not any more than the Dutch are obsessed with dope. Or the average US person with guns.

    We just perceive it that way because we get told a lot that these things are legal there while being illegal where we live and our sensationalist media show us that Japanese businessman who buys little girl panties, the Dutch dopehead who smokes one blunt after another in a coffeeshop and the gun-toting redneck enjoying his afternoon with a machine gun.

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