driversoft wrote:Etonman wrote:Not getting at Midniter/UMD, but the US laws seem very odd.
These laws ban a "rude" pic (was it one of these here), yet seems to allow stuff like violent porn, torture, etc.
We have our own unworkable laws over here too - look at the new "Extreme Pornography" legislation - basically, possession of any image that appears to depict an act that may involve serious harm, particularly (but not limited) to genitalia, is now punishable by up to three years in jail (unless the scenario is faked AND YOU'RE ONE OF THE DEPICTED WILLING PARTICIPANTS). The Government seem to have decided that as individual images are contextless, they shall be assumed to be 'real'.
The consequence of this, of course, is that I can perfectly legally watch, say, Hostel II, at the cinema (wherein the images are in context by virtue of being a categorised movie, I suppose), but if I were to possess some of the same images in a standalone format, I'd be committing a jailable offence (there is no exemption in the act for images from otherwise legal sources, for example).
Furthermore, current legislation specifies that an individuals legal consent to any harmful (or potentially harmful) procedures is nullified IF THE IMAGES ARE PRODUCED FOR SEXUAL GRATIFICATION.
Worthwhile knowing, even if it affects BDSM much moreso than WAM.
I posted a thread about this way back when it was going through the House of Commons (way back when being a couple of months ago). There was a petition and stuff to try and get the bill blocked, or at least amended, but it was a footnote on some kind of anti-terror law so it got pushed through unchanged.
It is a bollocks law though, really.
Though, back on topic, great set.
