[Jimbo]

Originally posted by RawAlex
Jimbo, you are correct. There is a NARROW situation where you can have models in compliance with 2256. HOWEVER... you cannot mix and match, You cannot have a 2256 compliant image next to an image of someone fucking. The images themselves are not important as much as presentation is. Your intent, under the law, is as important as any single image.

You cannot have a nude 15 year old on a website called "schoolgirls fucking". The intent is against 2256.

Intersting point, intent. I brought it up with the simulated stuff, legal models portrayed as minors. But last I heard, this subject is still unsettled in the US Congress, but certainly a intersting point!


If I was you, I would be getting lawyer really quick - you have revealed yourself in public, and the phone calls and emails have already started. Your done.

for what? guilty of bad taste? all my material is legal.

You might also want to check this out:

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Jane Boyle, announced the unsealing of a three-count federal indictment against a former Dallas Police Officer Garry Layne Ragsdale, 34, and his wife, Tamara Michelle Ragsdale, 32, residents of Fort Worth, Texas.

The indictment, returned in late March, charges each defendant with one count of conspiracy to mail obscene material, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, two counts of mailing obscene material and aiding and abetting, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1461 and 2.

The indictment charges that from April 1998 to July 1998, the Ragsdales conspired together, and with others, to sell and distribute obscene videotapes depicting rape scenes through the Internet and the United States mail. The indictment alleges that the Ragsdales owned, managed and maintained a Web site called "geschlecht.com." The web page was named "The Rape Video Store," where the Ragsdales offered obscene videotapes depicting rape scenes, which they categorized on the Web site as the "Real Rape Video Series" and the "Brutally Raped Video Series."

The Ragsdales posted graphically obscene descriptions of the videotapes on their Web site. They duplicated and mailed the tapes from their home after customers paid for the videos with a credit card. Visa, MasterCard, DiscoverCard, are you listening? Corporations Respond to CWA and AT&T Getting the Porn Ring Out of Its Collar (with Visa update).

If convicted on all counts, however, the Ragsdales each face up to 20 years imprisonment and a $750,000 fine. A trial is set for July 14, 2003, before Sidney A. Fitzwater, U.S. District Court Judge.

You better start deleting your hard drive and pulling your sites down now. The phone calls will be made.

Intersting story, but I wonder if there is more to it like it's a federal thing because of mail. I can't imagine going to jail for simulated rape pics, unless they werent simulated and were real?

Very interesting post!
Alex