Refused-Classification.com is your guide to film, DVD, video, game, television, internet, book, and magazine censorship in Australia. http://www.refused-classification.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-au Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:48:49 +1000 refusedclassification@gmail.com Sat, 4 Jul 2009 10:25:27 +1000 refusedclassification@gmail.com FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com Refused-Classificationhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesWelcome to the Refused-Classification.com feed. Please subscribe to receive automatic site updates. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Refused-Classification/~3/Conc0zcwBrU/ud_09_03.htm 846B5FED-0B7D-47F3-9CC9-D702F3F00EC1 Sat, 4 Jul 2009 10:25:27 +1000 Calvista has seen three of Cash Markman's DVDs recently run into problems. We also have a ban being slapped on an Australian produced lesbian DVD. A heavily censored 75m DVD of NOT WITH MY WIFE YOU...<br/> <br/> This is a content summary only. 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Four years after it was made Jorge Grau's THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE...<br/> <br/> This is a content summary only. 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The deliberately controversial poster did the job...<br/> <br/> This is a content summary only. 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The reason given was "nudity as an incentive or reward to interactive game play".<br/> <br/> This is a content summary only. 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A butchered VHS release finally appeared in 1997....<br/> <br/> This is a content summary only. 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Once more he seems to have found evidence of pre-censorship by Siren before the DVD was...<br/> <br/> This is a content summary only. 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