Originally Posted by Profits of Doom

He would feel a lot differently if it was him who was hauled off to jail. In my early days of running porn stores I was handcuffed by police and hauled off to jail for some pretty vanilla VHS porn by a crusading police officer and mayor that had larger political aspirations. It's not like prosecutors and the DOJ are saying that vanilla porn is ok, and just the stuff that Max Hardcore produced was repulsive. When they get rid of the Max Hardcores of the world they will move right on down the line to whoever is next. Most of the "internet only" generation of people in porn feel shielded from law enforcement, but it only takes one time getting the cuffs slapped on to change your opinion.

Sure Max Hardcore is an idiot for flipping the FBI and the DOJ the bird, but he doesn't belong in jail for it. You can say 100 times that he should have known better and shouldn't have rocked the boat and deserved what he got, but it doesn't make it any less wrong...