Remember when this was just supposed to be about pornography? Notice how it never ever applies strictly to pornography and how that's always just a foot in the door excuse

Drink verification can

And as usual those without internet for a few hours or days are fucked.

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I'm ignorant but it seems like Australia kind of censors video games a lot, right? Like the culture of law there is to be kind of controlling about what people can see and play in video games specifically

The Xbox is a dead platform and PS is right behind it. Look at active player counts for the info on who matters. It's not Microsoft, EA or the others. It's indie studios and free to play studios on the PC and Steam. Until those guys decide they need to comply, none of these laws are going to matter. Any country telling some indie dev somewhere else that they need to set up software to verify ID cards is going to be ignored. Then, the people who want to play those games are going to ignore them too. If you walk around in any major city in Australia today, you see people ignore the law routinely. This is just one more law they will ignore.

All this says to me is dont buy from microsoft if you're in Australia.

Has already been the case in Singapore but they require us to login to our digital government ID on some external vendor's site which no one sure if they're even reliable or not. It's easy to work around by changing your account's region though.

At that point, yeah, piracy is not merely action against subverted intellectual property laws but action against government restrictions on civil liberties.

It also means consuming restricted content is an act of political resistance.

Well, for me, when this comes to the U.S.A., that's when I stop using the technology unless I get my hands on pirated software and alternate hardware.

I'm quite capable of walking away from all this. Heck, I swore off video games for 20 years because World of Warcrack was eating my life, so I have receipts.

It seems she won't be right.

presumably based on age of your email or Xbox account

So, if we take for example, someone getting an Xbox and account at 17. With this in place, the least invasive way means that players won't be allowed to buy or play an R18 game until they turn reach 35+