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On 5 December 2008, the Internet Watch Foundation, a British watchdog group, added the free online encyclopedia English Wikipedia's article "Virgin Killer", to a blacklist of websites it deems "potentially illegal" due to the presence of the controversial cover art for the Scorpions's 1976 album of that name, which depicts a girl posing naked, with a glass shatter blocking her genitalia. The image page depicting the cover art was also blacklisted. The album art was deemed controversial at the time of its release, and was replaced in some markets by an alternate cover image featuring a photo of the band members.


The IWF described the image as "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18".[1] Users of major ISPs, including BT Group, Vodafone, Virgin Media/Tesco.net, Be/O2, EasyNet/UK Online/Sky Broadband, PlusNet, Demon, and TalkTalk (Opal Telecom), were unable to access the content, despite the album cover being available unfiltered on other major sites including Amazon.co.uk,[1] and available for sale in the UK.[2]

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