Church of England sets up digital codes of conduct |
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After an unreserved apology from Sony Computer Entertainment, the Church of England has ruled that words are not enough. They have come up with the first ever set of "sacred digital guidelines". Prompted by Sony's use of Manchester Cathedral as the setting for a fierce gun battle between humans and aliens in Resistance: Fall of Man, the guidelines aim to prevent the "virtual desecration" of religious sites in the future.
Digital Guidelines Code of Conduct:
- Respect our sacred spaces as places of prayer, worship, peace, learning and heritage.
- Do not assume that sacred space interiors are copyright free.
- Get permission from the faith leaders who are responsible for the building interiors you want to clone.
- Support the work of those engaged in resisting the culture of gun crime and those involved in promoting the work of conflict resolution.
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ya ok... i call for the church to suck deez nuts
lamest ploy ever
they really think they have the authority to set up a "code of conduct"?
and wtf is with that last "guide line"?? LOL they're advertising!
But games can still have fake churches right by following this?
Ig they had copyrights in that church of theirs they would have sued sony.
I feel this is stupid... they should hate on movies n 5hit cause those actually have people filming n 5hit (Most of them not killing alians)...
God the Church should get a life and try and not turn this into more of a nanny state then it already is!
***** political correctness...
I think it is a funny hypocritical thing that churches sell fireworks for the 4th of July. Even though they are about fun they are still dangerous, emit pollution and the churches make money from them in their fund raisers. Many things churches do are retarded and I am glad I am not a follower of these narrow minded people. I think someone should out of spite make a game thats all about blowing up churches. That would be cool!
so when the marauding aliens turn up, we have to ask permission before we enter a church to clear them out for them...
just waiting till another preist touches up another inocent child, then I'm gonna let rip in their church...
In other news...I took a huge ***** on the Church of England and their new child molesting rules. I will start following their rules when they stop abusing their power and touching children in perverted ways!
Half way through a level it'll pop up saying: Warning Guns are DANGEROUS.
MESSAGE BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
i dont know about the church of england but id guess there ok and mean well with all of this. but they dont have a leg to stand on nothing about that churches exterior or general interior is copyrighted there is noting they can do about it .
The problem will be to know when your game meet those guidelines.
It's not ok to fictionally kill aliens in a church but it's ok to hide war criminals and mass murders after the Rwandan Genocide in 1994... That's why I dont do religion. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article607633.ece
If the developers art guys were poking about this church in order to create a virtual version of it, do you not think the issue of placing it in a somewhat violent but 100% fictional game came up, and also this would back what SONY were saying, coz they said they did get permission.
the church is all about greed, war and child molestation. nuff said.
I hope that the next Resistance will be Fall of Church!
Agreed. They need to get the stick out of their arse.
If you changed either the interior or exterior of the building by a noticeable 20-percent difference you can bypass copyrights in most countries.
I don't know how you copyright a 600-year old church's interior...
As far as I'm concerned, it resembled your church, but it definitely wasn't meant to be a direct clone. Dumbass.
at my church we play games like resistance all the time.. believing in jesus has nothing to do with crap like this; it's just political bs (like someone up top said)
wtf, does this church need publicity?? are not enough f.a.g.s. from england going to pray?? this is the gayest thing ive ever heard, what a bunch of children. i cant beleive a church would be this stupid...nvr mind i take that back
they complain for a game that has a church, but doesn't complain when you see a movie with killings inside a church...filled with blood and stuff. What seems more real a game or a movie???
Well games tend to be more imersive but anyway I see your point.
This does NOT speak for every church. My church and school get to play games like this all the time. It's the church of englands fault for not letting it go. Sony didn't intentionally recreate the church for people to blow up. And how would they have seen the level in the first place? Isn't it far in the game? I say they want to make these rules so if a company slips up. They can sue to their hearts desire.
Money hungry idiots
i'd definitely buy a game made out of spite! i'm all about spite, seriously.
haha, americans are wayyyyy more religious than english people honestly....
1) die... painfully if possible
I'm gonna make my own game in which the goal is to destroy/vandalize this church! And slap Resistance wallpapers everywhere haha...