U.K. Mail-Order Operators Plead Guilty to Obscenity Charges: “A London court on Monday found two entrepreneurs of an adult DVD-catalog mail-order business guilty on obscenity charges.” (Via XBIZ.com | News & Articles.)
Man remanded for extreme porn offences: “ Time to dust off those disk scrubbers? An arrest – and remand time – for being suspected of possessing extreme porn may act as wake-up call for those…
Government unbans dirty vids but bans ‘legal highs’: “ Thatcher’s legacy – dirty DVDs for all Legislation introduced by Margaret Thatcher in 1984, which banned the sale of unclassified videos and computer games, is not…
UK obscenity law: Where to now?: “ Post-Girls (Scream) Aloud, the written word is safe – for now Analysis As the dust settles on the Girls (Scream) Aloud trial, what are the implications for the…
Prosecutors drop ‘freedom threatening’ Girls Aloud obscenity blog case: “A blogger has been acquitted of obscenity offences in a court case that could have redefined UK citizens’ right to free speech on the internet. Prosecutors…
Landmark case? No, not really. This was a prosecution which should have never taken place in the first place. Text based publications should not be the focus of any obscenity prosecution. [Yaman Akdeniz] Girls Aloud…
Extreme porn law used on beastly Chinese DVD pirates: “ Cops make grab for mysterious black bags Five months on from the passage of new laws on extreme porn, police forces up and down the…
British film board rejects ‘disturbing’ sexual torture film: “ Is Obscenity Law undermined by extreme porn? The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) have issued a rare rejection notice for a ‘disturbing and realistic’ DVD…
How the government uses dirty data to legislate morality: “ So what’s a standard deviation? When it comes to sex and censorship, Government’s insistence that laws are ‘evidence-based’ is little more than hot air.… “…
Landmark Spamming, Obscenity Appeals Case Heats Up: “Appellants representing the first convictions in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for online obscenity not involving child pornography and the first convictions ever under the federal…