Lusche on 11 December 2012
| Viper1 said: OK, it seems that Nintendo had 2 options. Restrict the time or use a technical means to prove age. I've seen suggestions such as Post Ident and Schufa but I think those are German only which does nothing for everyoen else in Europe. A couple of others are suggested by the German KJM (Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media). That regulation (or one very similar to it) definitely applies to online media now. http://www.kjm-online.de/de/pub/service/english.cfm I think with all the information we've come across (some companies are not impacted, others were at least at one point) that the best we can really say is that we don't really know anything at this point. |
post ident can only be used with physical copies and is used to get age verification of usk18 games for online shops like amazon or others so that they are allowed to send you a physical copy (post ident is a service from dhl a local postal service) not possible for digital copies.
Schufa is the first time I heard it that you can use that for age verification. Usually used for credit info verification if you are able to pay for what you are trying to buy.
Dont know to much about KJM so cant really comment. But I havent found anything on their homepage that limits selling digital copies on the internet.
But yeah I agree we dont really know anything at this point ...
