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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Bitch-slapped Board of Film Censors

10:23 AM / Games / 4 Comments

Yesterday, the British Board of Film Censors lost out in a bid to become the state censor for all computer and video games. All ratings duties will instead be carried out by pan-European body PEGI, which already rates the majority of games appearing on UK shelves. The PEGI ratings will now be made legally binding, prohibiting the sale of games to those younger than the stated age rating - which I believe should have been the case right from the start. (Otherwise what's the point of them?)

The BBFC, having lost out on one of their many ways of raking in ridiculous amount of cash, are predictably throwing their toys out of the pram and having a right royal whinge about how much better suited they are to deciding who can play a game than PEGI. Make no mistake: this is a great victory against the extortionists from Soho Square, who charge obscene amounts of money on a mandatory rating system, the fees for which are such that many smaller DVD labels deliberately omit content from their releases so that they can stand a chance of breaking even in sales. With the BBFC also clamouring to rate online content, it seems fairly evident that their ultimate goal is to monopolise the entertainment industry, establishing themselves as the judges of acceptability for all media in the UK. Yesterday, the goalposts were moved several paces back.

Source: Gamespot

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