Dangerous Cartoon Act prevents new Crunchy showing?

Titan said:
Ryu Shoji said:
I couldn't see any rating for episode 4 though...is that what you mean? Because if memory serves me well, it was on the disc. Just quickly reading the episode summary on wikipedia, and I remember that episode.

Here are the episodes of Code Geass R2 that I didn't see listed in the link.

CODE GEASS - LELOUCH OF THE REBELLION - R2, Episodes 4, 7, 9, 11 and 12 -
12

So people really were moaning about 1 second of possible child porn? It's interesting that some of the later R2 episodes are PGs, but the next set will be a 15 due some other episodes.
 
There's just too much of a stranglehold on these type of situations. It's like doctors not giving a small dose of a virus so that the immunity system can adapt to it. They obviously wouldn't give you a big/extreme dose as it would kill you. There should be more liberal attitudes to it.

I didn't get the whole idea of the costumes in SW, but it didn't stop me from watching it as a show rather than anything else. And there's tons of shows with bath scenes, from Studio Ghibli to Negima, and that's been fine for them anyways. It's bad when it gets sexualised (Specific shot angles, abuse, etc) is when the censorship should take action.
 
The BBFC would have had nothing to do with an online stream.

This is wholly down to Crunchyroll and whatever the terms of the streaming licence are. It may be that they never got the rights to stream it in the UK in the first place, in which case this is a non-issue, or it could be a diversionary tactic from CR. "Don't blame us for not getting the streaming licence. Blame your government for having a stupid law."

Or they may have taken legal advice on the show, found that they were open for liability, and decided to err on the side of caution.

I think this is a non-news item, that they never had a UK stream licence in the first place.
 
ilmaestro said:
Shiroi Hane said:
I really can't see the C&JA concerning an American/Japanese-based company greatly
Really? There are discussions about similar issues coming up more and more often in Japan, I wonder if they're not aware of the situation.
UK laws wouldn't affect sites hosted in other companies. Thinking about it, since the videos are streamed I don't think we could even get done for "possession" for that matter. The worst that could happen is a being blocked by the IWF. Actually, not even that - their remit for "non-photographic child sexual abuse images" only extends to material actually hosted in the UK (http://www.iwf.org.uk/police/page.223.621.htm).
 
Isn't the govenment asking what laws we might want to repeal? Who's going to be the first to request the Dangerous Cartoons Act be repealed? Mmm? Anybody? :lol:
 
Mohawk52 said:
Isn't the govenment asking what laws we might want to repeal? Who's going to be the first to request the Dangerous Cartoons Act be repealed? Mmm? Anybody? :lol:
Why don't you tell Mr. Clegg?
 
Mohawk52 said:
Isn't the govenment asking what laws we might want to repeal? Who's going to be the first to request the Dangerous Cartoons Act be repealed? Mmm? Anybody? :lol:

About 3 dozen different ones cos they are all to thick to do a search and see if someone else suggested it. But you can rest assured that most anime fans will be too bone idle to support the suggestions ;)

Anyway, something is in progress with the BBFC which should clear up the code geass teacup storm and as indicated the act doesn't apply to a CR stream. This stinks of licensing.

Its just very easy to blame the 'dangerous cartoons act'.
 
ilmaestro said:
Shiroi Hane said:
Actually, not even that - their remit for "non-photographic child sexual abuse images" only extends to material actually hosted in the UK (http://www.iwf.org.uk/police/page.223.621.htm).
Oh wow, didn't know that. Actually is safe to browse... certain sites, then. ^^;
Not really, this is only with regards to the sites themselves since that's what the IWF does. Once an image is in your cache: "Where potentially criminal non-photographic visual depictions of the sexual abuse of children are found in hard copy or on a computer it should be reported to the police in the same way as any other criminal offence."
Given all the hoops streaming sites go through to stop you saving copies, I'm not sure they would be a problem anyway.
 
Nothing is left on your PC when you view CR. And there is a get out of jail clause which pretty much allows for the image being sent to you without consent, ie emailed to you by someone or cached by your browswer.

If you have a directory on your computer full of just these pics then you're in trouble :)

At the end of the day CR censor quite a few of their shows as they do not have proper age rating controls. They cut SW1, Charger girls, school days, chubra and they were cut to US TV standards which are more strict than over here. We could have got an uncut version of Elfen Lied on TV here but it was cheaper and easier to use the US TV masters.
 
Project-2501 said:
We could have got an uncut version of Elfen Lied on TV here but it was cheaper and easier to use the US TV masters.
Elfen Lied cuts? This is news to me. Do tell, do tell.
 
The Mayu abuse scene was cut from the US TV version. UK DVD was not touched, you can calm down :)

Germans can't see SW2, nor can the Swiss, nor can the Ukraine. Its not just the UK.
 
Whilst I'm fully aware of the dicodemy of doing nothing whilst evil is visited upon those you don't care for and then wondering where they are when the evil's kicking your ass. There's one thing that rings true throughout all this:

This is effin' Strike Witches. The only other way to make me care less (or even root for the DCA) is to make this about Queens Blade or Ikki Tosen. All three shows are Dangerously Bad, that's how the DCA should protect us. None of this cutting one second of Code Geass nonsense.

I'd be more concenred if it was High School of The Dead but that's just hidden under Zombie ADV's god awful licencing practices than any untoward act.
 
Egad, Conan-san. Your concerns regarding our protection from titles such as this are expressed in a somewhat vocal manner.

Have you considered a career in politics, out of interest?
 
ConanThe3rd said:
Whilst I'm fully aware of the dicodemy of doing nothing whilst evil is visited upon those you don't care for and then wondering where they are when the evil's kicking your ass. There's one thing that rings true throughout all this:
"Whilst several of my friends are black..."
 
I was thinking it might be an EU issue but finland are allowed to watch it and they're in the EU.

We are paranoid about child abuse in this country which is our news medias fault and out fault for falling for this hsytria.

Sacaficing Freedoms for security is not security.

Or could be a that they don't have the licence it show this series in the UK.
 


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