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Redrob, you don't have to be found guilty of drunk driving in most states for the police to seize your car and put it in impound. Drug dealers cannot stand on the street corner and continue to sell drugs while waiting for trial on drug possession (although some do, and they usually end up getting locked up pending trial). The material in question is "in question", and a judge is quite normally within bounds to say "stop distributing it until we can determine the legality". They didn't rule of the legality of it, but as there is doubt, the judge has asked him to err on the side of caution.
Chris chose not do to that.
What can I say?
Let's think of this in terms of CP or snuff films. Would you permit a website to continue to distribute these materials after they have been arrested because the case hasn't been judged yet? Think very carefully of what it is you are wishing happens in Chris's case, because you can easily replace the term "obscene" with "CP" or "snuff" or "whatever" and get the exact same result.
If Chris didn't agree with the Judge's order, it is his turn to go to a higher court and ask for that order to be overruled or removed. Just keeping going regardless is like playing in traffic.
Alex
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