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Originally Posted by L-Pink
I agree with and sympathize with someone that has private images plastered over the internet.
I also don't understand how the poster of images can do it without releases and proper documentation. Under existing laws the prosecution should be a slam dunk.
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this is how the Internet works.
- If you own a sex store and put up an "Enter only if 18 or over." and minors still come in and no one does anything about it...
The police will arrest those working and close down the store.
But on the Internet it is business as usual.
- I have a couple of boxes of cassettes and DVDs mailed to me by amateur couples without documentation and if I put them on a DVD and sell them....
The police will eventually find out and I will be arressted. Perhaps even charged with making child porn because I can not prove those were actual adults.
But on the Internet it is called "User generated content" and it is business as usual.
To be very clear.
- Men are filming their girlfriends without their knowledge or consent and posting the videos.
- Porn sites are probably accessed more by children than any one wants to admit.
- Children are posting videos of themselves to these sites.
- Pedophiles are also posting (and sometimes filming) videos of children to the Internet.
If you talk to any producer or photographer that has been around for at least 2 decades they will tell you that the police used to ALWAYS be sneaking around trying to find some way of causing problems for the industry. But somehow around 2005 all law enforcement lost their brains and just decided that Internet was not actually distributing porn.
I am in favour of liberty of expression but that does not mean that porn makers should not have to adhear to certain rules about performer age, consent and documentation requires of their age and consent.