The EU court of justice has determined that EU legislation will overrule the danish law with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfair_Commercial_Practices_Directive

The source is not yet available in english: http://politiken.dk/tjek/dagligliv/article988658.ece (danish)

This hopefully means there will no longer be any discrimination towards who can participate in the offers blizzard can provide their customers in Denmark, if not the entire EU.

Ohhh uuhh ohhh.. i can has a rocket?

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Source: http://www.dailyrush.dk/stories/18893/

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Dear Mikkel Georgsen,

The Danish Consumer Ombudsman has received your e-mail of 16 September 2008 regarding the decision of Activison Blizzard not to market online competitions etc. relating to the game World of Warcraft in Denmark.

We have previously received several questions from consumers as to why Activison Blizzard has made the decision not to market their other products in Denmark. To our knowledge there is no provision in the Danish Marketing Practices act that prevents Activison Blizzard from letting Danish consumers participate in for example online tournaments. The specific example you mention may, however, be in contravention with article 6 of the Marketing Practices Act.

You can read more about the provision on READ MORE (the last one is only available in Danish)

If Activision Blizzard would like some guidance as to, what is and what is not in contravention with the Danish Marketing Practices Act, they are welcome to contact the Consumer Ombudsman, which can be done online on the following website READ MORE

Lastly, we enclose a copy of the reply from the Danish Ministry of Culture regarding this matter to Folketingets Kulturudvalg.

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I think it's worth blue-quoting this particular letter which gets referred to quite a bit, as many seem to have missed the part in bold (and now underlined for easy spotting). Comments #6 and #10 when following that link are also worth a read.

Additionally, while I have no schooling in legal matters and thus leave legal stuff to the experts (read: I won't enter a discussion on this topic, so don't even try :p), it may be worth pointing out that the letter specifically refers to Activision Blizzard, which I imagine would be a different legal entity from Blizzard Entertainment.

But all that is really specific for one case, and in the end it all comes down to this: we want as many as possible to be eligible for all contests, promotions, tournaments, etc. Anything else would be entirely counterproductive. We want everyone in on the fun! Our legal team is doing an excellent job looking into these things and providing input to help tailor contests, tournaments, etc to always include as many of you as possible. But we can't and won't take chances with legal matters, and have to stay clearly on the right side when there's doubt (as shown in the above letter). While that can surely be frustrating, I hope you still have understanding for that plain necessity.