Well pointed by the Anonymous Coward , the legislation was passed just to fight the illegal gambling games cautiously hidden behind pac-man/arcade games, but as most of the MPs are computer illeterate they decided to ban all sorts of entertainment machines in their law. Fortunately, many demonstrations held mostly by Internet Cafe owners and businessmen pointed out that not all computer/entertainment machines are the same, as well as not all businesses act in the same manner. My opinion as a Greek citizen is that such law has to consider all kinds of options to allow free businessmen to have computer/entertainment facilities, but on the other hand as the fish stinks first from the head, authorities have first to be informed on what kinds of machines they have to seize from operating. As an example, i will mention a friend's business that was in all ways legitimate (internet cafe)according to the laws, was completely shut down because some computer illeterate "Sheriff" saw a casino pop-up banner on the desktop and decided to confiscate the computers as they were supposed to be gambling machines!!!.... How stupid is that....
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Well pointed by the Anonymous Coward , the legislation was passed just to fight the illegal gambling games cautiously hidden behind pac-man/arcade games, but as most of the MPs are computer illeterate they decided to ban all sorts of entertainment machines in their law. Fortunately, many demonstrations held mostly by Internet Cafe owners and businessmen pointed out that not all computer/entertainment machines are the same, as well as not all businesses act in the same manner. My opinion as a Greek citizen is that such law has to consider all kinds of options to allow free businessmen to have computer/entertainment facilities, but on the other hand as the fish stinks first from the head, authorities have first to be informed on what kinds of machines they have to seize from operating. As an example, i will mention a friend's business that was in all ways legitimate (internet cafe)according to the laws, was completely shut down because some computer illeterate "Sheriff" saw a casino pop-up banner on the desktop and decided to confiscate the computers as they were supposed to be gambling machines!!!.... How stupid is that....