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Originally Posted by rayadp05
I understand what you are saying but my only point is that for the producers that shoot content as extreme as max's content then this case does have some relation to them and they should reconsider shooting extreme shit unless they want to take chances but for the producers that are shooting adult mainstream content such as girls modeling nude, blowjob scenes, handjob scenes...I don't see how that really has any relation to what is going on here. I don't know why some people are freaking out and thinking that just because max was found guilty of obscenity charges that there is not going to be anymore pornography produced in the future. 
If shooting content such as girls modeling nude, handjobs, blowjobs....was considered obscene then there would not be an adult industry here in America and it would have been banned decades ago. In my opinion, pornography will always exist....just as it always has existed. You just need to watch what your shooting and don't play with fire because as we have all seen, if you shoot that type of content then your asking for trouble. |
To me this is why it is a big deal: It isn't about the content. I can look at this case logically and see how some people could watch one of his movies and think it is obscene. So I'm not shocked that some of his DVDs are found obscene (disappointed yes, but not shocked). What bothers me is that, from what I understand, some of the convictions came only from movie trailers not the full movie (I'm sure that will be something argued in the appeal) and some of the convictions were for, "transporting obscene material over the internet."
What they are saying is that if you have 2 minutes worth of video on your site you can now be prosecuted for obscenity. You didn't mail anything to anyone. You don't have the full movie available, but that apparently doesn't matter. What this could potentially lead to is attorney generals from all over being able to haul anyone they want into their court. If an AG is sitting in Godville, OK and doesn't like porn he can jump online, find a site he doesn't like and file obscenity charges against the person that is running the site. They now have to go there and defend themselves and it is possible, because of this case, that all they had was 4 30 second long clips on their site. This is the disturbing part.
Will there be a witch hunt? I don't think there will. While they have a big voice, the religous zealots only make up about 20% of the country. If suddenly our government start waging war on porn while we can't secure the borders and can't get out of Iraq it would look very bad and I think much of the rest of the country would voice their displeasure. The Bush administration is a joke and they don't care what they do right now so they might try some more things, but in the end we will have a new president in a few months and he will most likely have enough on his plate that we won't be priority number 1 and if it is Obama he may do as Clinton and pretty much ignore us. However if Max's case is left to stand as is, it does open the door up for AG's all over the country to do as they please and that could turn ugly for us fast.