As a Brit, I’m in the unique position of being able to describe myself as “European” however and whever I feel like it. Unfortunately however, my allegiance to the EU motherland has now taken a major blow as one of its member states, the tiny, flat, and mostly dull country of Belgium, has decided to go and make video game rentals illegal.

No, really. Apparently, after much lobbying from the Belgian games industry, the country’s authorities decided that the rental market was eating into the profits of brand new game sales, and as of December 1st it will actually be a criminal offense to rent any computer game in the country.

Will the plucky Belgians be taking trips to the Dutch border to get their hands on this illicit merchandise? I guess only time will tell. But for now, I’m just glad that there’s a couple of hundred miles of water between our fair green isles and their Belgian beureaucratic madness.

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