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runqvist on 11 December 2012
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Viper1 said:
runqvist said:

Obviously you are capable of reading. I guess you are just being obtuse, but why not. The company located in germany has to abide with the german law, of course. The law in question is about protecting the german youth, who are residing in ... Germany. It limits the transactions for those people who happen to reside where the said law applies. Is it really so hard for you to understand?

I think what you are not understanding is that this law is not being applied to the buyers but the seller directly.  The law is not looking at who the end user is at all, only who the seller is.

Thera are 2 entites in a direct transaction.  A buyer and a seller.  While the intent of this law is to protect the buyer, it is applied to the seller.  So a kid in the UK is still buying from a German store that is subject to German law.

Say a German store sold hard alcohol online. German legal age is 18.  A 16 year old in Denmark (legal age there) would still not be allowed to purchase it because the German laws the store must abide by.

I'll ask you this again. How familiar are you with the european legislation?

I don't know how you define hard alcohol, but as far as I know the limit is 18 years in Denmark. I'd say that the german store can sell soft alcohol drinks which have 16 years age limit in Denmark to customers in Denmark if they want. But that is beside the point, those stores are allowed to sell the products for people over the legal limit any time, any day.  And you can even see their listings every hour?! Oh my god. That is unpossimble.

Also:

http://www.amazon.de/Ubisoft-ZombiU/dp/B0087Z90JM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355249143&sr=8-1

What, a store in germany is listing a 18+ product and it is not 23.00 yet? Another unpossimble!