Classics Reborn

All those times you mentioned aside from 2002. Was the religious conservatives along with the mommy groups. And the televangelists got a lot of money vilifying this stuff so the religious politicians picked it up and the politicians wives with their little protect the children bullshit. All leading to those warning stickers and culminating with PMRC that went after people like Ozzy and Twisted Sister etc and then they had all those stupid hearings and it was basically people grandstanding and really making themselves look like fools.

In 2002 though? That doesn't seem right and really not at any time. People have been crossdressing in sketch comedies for 100 years lol. Probably it was less about some rule than people just knowing Black Jack in a bra is just gross :D. Because you're right we had had Madonna already for years, and Bspears and her hoes lol.

We've had much better luck with video games. Sure people have complained here and there and tried to use them as a soapbox. But at least for now it seems we're past that and those people just kind of go away.
 
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Well I suppose we never had anything like the PMRC here. We did get the stickers and they varied a bit from the US, but the only political group to try and push anything like the PMRC got shot down so quickly that they didn't even try starting up again. We have had less strict rules on our public broadcasts than America for years, kind of like the movie rating system where some countries had 12+ 14+ and 15+ etc, nothing that drastically different but noticeable in some cases.

Weirdly enough (and I don't remember the years) in this country having a woman in a bra was acceptable but a man in one was not. We had a number of male comedians who did female characters in the 70's and 80's and there was more than a few times the censors ordered a scene cut or blurred because the man's bra or knickers were showing. It's weird.

Yeah I think governments have realised banning a game because of graphics only makes it more popular and with different countries having different rules its not hard to get a 'banned in this country' game without the banned material.
 
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Pretty funny when you think about what's illegal or legal and why. Like Walmart, they'll sell guns (for many years to kids) but they'll ban a cardboard cutout of a video game character with a gun lol.
 
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The one that always got me in this country was that it was legal to sell bongs but illegal to sell the cone. Even if you used a bong for completely legal products (I hear some people did), as soon as you put the cone on it you were breaking the law.
 
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Stupid old laws are often quite funny. In Queensland it's still illegal to tie your horse up out the front of a bar.
 
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Seems most of those big Euro festivals have cameras now days. I wonder who owns the rights to the footage. I'd reckon if the bands did we'd see more DVD's, unless labels really have decided there is no money in making them.
 
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Yeah I don't really know. I would imagine the rights would actually be held by the label not the band as such. But I guess different bands have different deals. My guess though would be that the festival owns at least some of the rights and can dictate sale or no sale.
 
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Gloryhammer had one of their festivals (I can't remember which one) from last year released in full the other day. There was actually a voting competition that was supported by the band to have fans vote between the release of their show and someone elses and Gloryhammer won so the entire show was posted on the festival's YT channel. So I guess some of the festivals own the rights and then it's up to the bands to agree if they are released. I haven't seen it done for other bands but it would be cool if more festivals did it.
 
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I agree, that's why I think it's more than just one of the groups involved that has the say on what gets released.
 
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Maybe they have to get the authority of everyone in the audience before they can release it and sending out snail mail to 50,000 people takes time :)

Wacken does have it's own channel but I'm not sure how often they update it.
 
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