UK Says No To Internet Ordered Porn
from the interesting-precedent dept
Over in the UK, the High Court has ruled that people can no longer order "adult" DVDs online. The reasoning makes sense at first, but quickly becomes problematic. The basic explanation is that there's no way to verify the age of the person who's ordering, and this ruling is meant to keep porn out of the hands of children. Basically, this moves the "age test" to the store, where the Court assumes a clerk can run the old "eyeball test" to figure out how old someone is. Leaving aside, of course, the fact that plenty of children figured out ways to see porn before the internet existed, this could become more troublesome soon. As content moves from plastic discs to online, then how will the courts distinguish between ordering a DVD online from clicking a button to see streaming video online? If anything, it seems like this ruling could eventually mean that all internet related porn is illegal in the UK -- which would be impossible to enforce.
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Just order from abroad
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00092QVTS/249-5701781-5716363
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Wow dorpus, those are some well endowed 11 year olds!
Because asians have a tendency to look young to us dirty old western men doesnt make them under age.
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Internet is already a bigger sex shop
Oh well, it is good to know that the USA doesn't have a monopoly on pointless court decisions.
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