Australia bans GTA: San Andreas

I reacon this is a load of s**t i mean for PS2 it is imposible to find a crack for it and even if it does have sex content in it it is still blured out and o\if dirty little pirvs wanna get off on pretty much "doll's" getting it on (cause ya can't see anything) just let em if there perent's catch them let them deal with. there are a hell of a lot of moral gamers that just wanna play the game for the story nut just to watch dolls getting it on. They better bring the game back with the code removed and still at the same price!! OR I'LL FREAK!!!!

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Yeah this is bullsh*t it's alright to go around blowing the f*ck out of people, running people over etc. but at the smallest possibility of some kids seeing this mod in the already MA15+ game (Which is tame compared to the violence, you don't even see anything, especially nothing that someone over 15 years old would be adversely affected by) they have pulled it from the shelves. They are idiots. Check this article out, it basically matches my opinion on the hot coffee mod. www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ticket_to_hell

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its just a game anyway R* (rockstar) made a version 1.2 which you cant get hot coffee on it. So the Australian they should just get that for stores... besides some movies rated MA+15 have sexual content and of course for San Andreas is has a small mention of sexual content

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im a 17 teen year old melbourne boy and i think that it is bulldust i now can not buy g.t.a-s.a because little copy cats think its cool you may as well ban every thing sutch as the pashion eta

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I think it sucks. GTA is a bloody video game for god sakes. I sure hope they don't ban the next one otherwise ill rally my ps2 troops and team up with the xbox troops and the pc troops and then start protesting (joking). I know its got violence and all that but people just can't take that away from adults like us. People shouldn't be selling GTA to kids anyway. I want get a feedback to see what you guys think of my comment cause I want to know if I struck a cord or not. The hot coffee man David Tausilia

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it's stupid acts like this that ojnly encourage software piracy. the federal governement needs to seriously update the censorship laws to discourage this type of illegal behavior... then again. this government is stupid anyway

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Why cant the make a "R" rating i think it is bulls**t

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i think they should make a r rated game classification and then we could play it

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The fact that Australia's ratings are so censored to allow this to go ahead is a traversty. The over-censorship of media in Australia is nothing new. The Howard government with take-boyfriends-on-taxpayers-money-to-Europe Trish Draper and i'm-just-screaming-so-Howard-will-hear-me Panopolous and Kerro-baths Bishop- and who could forget I-thought-I-had-a-son-but-my-promiscourity-didn't-pay-off Tony Abbot with Homophobic Bill Heffernan are leading the way in rebanning films Keating unbanned way back in 1992. I'm no expert in morality but didn't Jesus say, Tony, that "Let he who has committed no sin cast the first stone?" Recently Communications Minister Helen Coonan is trying to CENSOR the internet to filter out porn!! THat won't be hard, three quarters of the net IS porn! HELLLLLLO China! Visit on censorship: libertus.net/censor/ Back on topic, Australia has had a long problem with censorship. It could be 20 years of Menzies set the clocks back 20 years, or Whitlam/Fraser/Hawke were too lazy to fix it it could be that AUssies are too lazy to demand freedom of speech, or it could be that it's never been challenged in the High Court. (this could work, taking modchipping to the High Court worked recently) On a side note, this move encourages game buyers to take their business off-shore, robbing local retailers of money. Not just when the game was banned. My cousin was considering buying her PS2 version from the more-Liberal New Zealand who don't have archane laws in place. It also encourages piracy as inflated shipping costs plus poor exchange rates could drive some buyers to give up and go on P2P instead. THis is from a government so hell-bent on liberalising workplace relations laws to 'improve the number of jobs in the economy' despite having a 40% approval rating. This isn't the first time the Howard government has turned its back on the Media industry- 1,200 Telstra jobs: gone. Australian TV is SWAMPED with American ads because there is no law against importing them and this STEALS jobs from the local industry. The Howard government- specifically Minister Helen Coonan- doesn't care and doesn't understand. Is there a link between violence and video games? In the words of Roger Myers Jr (off the Simpsons) "I did a little research, and I discovered there was violence before cartoons were invented!" Replace the words cartoons with Video Games and you get my drift- the urge of someone to go out and committ a crime isn't put in there by video games. It must be ingrain first. If everyone who played video games went out and acted them out in real life, society would function as anarchy. Conservatives point out that crimes have been linked to the observing of forms of media. There were a spate of violent rapes after the movie Clockwork Orange for example. But did the movie make poeple go out and committ the rapes? Rather, are teh epopel who committed the crimes ticking time-bombs who would have done it anyway with a trigger? Just because a violent video game is one trigger, the disillusion of a marriage can be another. Are we saying therefore divorce should be illegal? How about domestic abuse. By saying we shoudl eliminate triggers, we are saying women in violent domestic environments should AVOID causing their partner to anger. This notion is ridiculous and naive. And it is as ridiculous and naive to say because of some dangerous individuals in society who blame thier actions on media that all of society should suffer lack of freedom of speech and lack of access to media. No. This is not about limiting exposure for those at risk of violent behaviours to video games. This is about paternal control- state to the individual- about what we can and can't think and can and can't do. I am over 18, I make my own choices, and I am accountable under the law. If I chose to go on a violent rampage because of somethign I did in a video game, then I am accountable. I pulled the trigger on that gun and I use

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i recon it suks! Maybe rockstar should make a second version without the sex so we can pop caps in homeys asses.

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Personally I think the whole idea of banning a game because of something small (In comparison to the rest of the game) is pathetic. It proves that censors in AUS, are so cravenly PC (Political Correct) that they will cave into anyone (Namely parents groups saying that games corrupt youngsters, or religious nutjobs who claim that games lead you to the devil!). In any event, if you have an Action Reply MAx you can unlock the 'Hot Coffee' content anyway. However, after having seen it, I laughed like anything. It was banned because of THAT!?! My god. Still, it lil pervs out there get off on that sort of thing, be my guest. Find the ARMAX codes for it and unlock it. Personally, I think if you want to 'play' games which feature 'sex content' in them, go and download 'hentai' games for your PC and play them. Otherwise, remember just one thing everyone.... IT'S JUST A GAME.

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i like to play soccer

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i think its awesome but i hate how u cant get to thet other place without doing the stupid missions it sucks!!!

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