Gene Ross has posted several articles relating to the legal side of the Adult Entertainment Industry. And since Mr. Fattarossi is to busy with Prime Time Unsensored to actually write about, well, "Pornlaw," and since Moxie is wrapped up in his remedial spelling lessons in order to finish his Porno edition of
The Wealth of Nations 
, I figured I'd take a crack at commenting on this stuff:
Judge Fines Porn Shop $30K ROCKPORT, Ind. -- A judge has fined the owners of a southern Indiana adult bookstore and lounge $30,000 for violating a county ordinance limiting the operation of a sexually oriented business.
The law defines a sexually oriented business as one in which sexual material makes up more than 35 percent of the merchandise or accounts for more than 35 percent of the store's revenue. An injunction against the Love Boutique in March did not order the business closed, but a lawyer representing the county argued that it was in contempt for violating the limits.
Spencer Circuit Judge Wayne Roell ruled Monday that because dancers appeared nude or seminude in the lounge, the business was in contempt for repeated failure to abide by the terms of the ordinance. The ruling allows the Love Boutique to remain open as long as it does not operate as a sexually oriented business. Roell also said the fines would increase with further violations.
--theindychannel.com
The Feds hit 'em high, the State hits 'em low. Porn fans have got to start taking action against Moral Orel and the Legion of Decency.California Internet porn bill dies in committee SACRAMENTO - - Legislation to require computer technicians to report any pornographic images of children they may stumble upon while fixing a machine was rejected Tuesday by the Senate Public Safety Committee.
Sponsored by Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani, D-Stockton, the bill would have extended existing law requiring film developers to report kiddie porn to those who repair computers. With the decline in film use as digital photography becomes mainstream, Galgiani says it only makes sense.
Arkansas, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota already require computer techs to report illegal photos or movies, and Connecticut is debating the issue.
Opponents maintain broadening the law would invade computer users' privacy and create a slippery slope of forcing many other occupations to become abuse watchdogs.
--recordnet.com
While I'm against restrictive legislation as a Rule, I don't see what the problem with this bill is? We're talking about Kiddie Porn here. Not Gag Factor, American Bukkake or even Max. It just applies an increasingly antiquated law to new technology. They hollar about one good law when there's dozens of bad one's slipping right under their nose. Preposterous.Hearing held on Amazing.net's license- Decision Expected at a Later Date SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts - At a violation hearing of the entertainment license for the Amazing.net adult video store at 486 Bridge St. yesterday afternoon, Assistant City Solicitor Michael E. Mulcahy said the video booths were improperly maintained and the site of sexual activity. Springfield police officer Rupert Daniel said that on Jan. 9, 2007, he made an arrest for drug distribution outside the store, which is owned by Capital Video Corp. of Cranston, R.I. Daniel said he has observed male and female prostitution outside the store.
The store's property manager said that since the October violation alterations have been made at the store to prevent sexual activity.
A witness said she has witnessed male and female prostitution across the street from the Amazing.net. She said that customers who go into the store come outside and solicit prostitutes.
--The Republican
Rank amatures. These folks should've been to the Show World Palace, ca 1989, before Benito Giuliani and Disneyfication. Good Times.Max and the Utah Cases (and mail order disclaimers) --readers responses
Sean from
www.pornvalleyvixens.com and
www.pornlegends.com writes: Adultfyi.com is starting to look like a police blotter or a federal court docket lately. In seeing all the cases, the Utah and Florida cases got me to thinking. Way back when I was running mail-order, we posted the following disclaimer regarding our shipping policy on our order form:
WE HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO SHIP X-RATED VIDEO TAPES TO THE FOLLOWING STATES AND AREAS: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North & South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Northern District of Florida, Canada & Over Seas.
I'm not suggesting mail-order companies stop shipping to those areas listed, but now as I look at that list, it appears a lot of these local, state and federal cases are coming from those areas. Companies may wish to reevaluate the areas they ship to.
Since I'm feeling benevolent today, I'll toss out this other gem of advise - DO NOT SHIP TO P.O. Boxes. Street addresses only. Use UPS or FedEx. Remember, nothing is completely safe, but these ideas may be a little safer.
In other words: Use some Fucking Common sense!!! Strip Club Owner on Trial Second Time on Prostie Charges BOISE, Idaho -- A Boise strip club owner is in court today for the second time to face charges of running a prostitution ring.
Christopher Teague was arrested in January on charges of knowingly accepting earnings from a prostitute.
Prosecutors say he ran AAA Anytime Escort Service, which they claim was used for prostitution.
Teague went on trial for the charges in May, but the trial ended in a hung jury.
Lawyers spent the morning selecting a new jury.
The trial is expected to last several days.
--KTVB.com
I'm honestly afraid to find out what kind of three-tooth whores they've got in Idaho. The guy probably runs the only service in the State.Julie Amero Case Began with Porn Pop Ups It's October 2004 and a substitute school teacher named Julie Amero is in a classroom in a middle school in Connecticut when pornographic pop-ups start popping up on the classroom's PC.
If you've been near a computer more than a week you've seen this happen; someone visits a Web site that infects the PC and soon these pop-ups are happening one after another. (When it happens in rapid succession we call it a "porn storm.") Turns out the classroom's PC was running Windows 98 and had no anti-virus or anti-spyware on it.
Anyway, this teacher, who was not very familiar with computers, asked other teachers what to do about it and she was told "not to worry about it." She asked the school principal if she should turn the computer off and was told no.
But after students told their parents about the pop-ups and the parents complained, Amero, who was four months pregnant at the time, was arrested and tried for four counts of risk or injury to a minor, which carried a maximum penalty of 10 years per count.
Surely the court would realize porn pop-ups were not the fault of a substitute teacher, right? Surely a judge would realize that this Javascript infection on a wide open computer that the evidence showed came from a G-rated site about hairstyles wasn't an attempt to expose children to porn?
This is America, right?
Well, wrong. This is Jerry Springer's America.
Amero was convicted following a two-day trial that techies have derided as similar to a mock trial held in a fairly good fourth-grade classroom. And she was due to be sentenced to prison this month.
Alex Eckelberry, president of Sunbelt Software Inc., a Florida computer security company, is just one prominent techie who has taken up Amero's cause. He rightly points out that there is no evidence she had anything to do with infecting the computer and the defense had much evidence to show otherwise. It's just that no one involved in the case understood the technology of spyware very well.
I bring this up to note that Amero was not sent to jail but was granted a new trial, one that I hope never actually happens. Our tax dollars have been used for everything from studying cow flatulence to trying to convict Duke lacrosse players and, now, putting pregnant teachers in jail because they didn't know how to clean spyware off of a computer in a borrowed classroom.
If you are looking to write an e-mail or a letter, send one to the governor of Connecticut and urge them to get involved in this issue and let Amero get back to work, assuming the resulting publicity hasn't destroyed her life already.
--deseretnews.com
Come the fuck on. This isn't Indiana, Utah, or Pennsyltucky. It's fucking Connecticut. Supposedly a civilized place. Where Reason trumps Religion and people have a basic understanding of how a computer works. God. Stupidity is universal.
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