US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity

angry tapir writes "The husband and wife owners of a California company that distributed pornographic materials over the Internet have been each sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Extreme Associates and owners Robert Zicari, also known as Rob Black, 35, and his wife, Janet Romano, aka Lizzie Borden, 32, pleaded guilty in March to a felony charge of conspiracy to distribute obscene material through the mail and over the Internet."

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Slashdot users fucking bastards

[Anonymous Coward]

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Admit linux will never be used again so stop using it

Re:Privacy? Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

The got what they deserve, pornography does more harm to the mind than you can imagine. How may lives has it destroyed? Countless.

Re:Privacy? Huh?

[hvm2hvm]

I'm all for standing up for free speech and freedom in general but this is not the fight you should take it to. Don't defend some fucked up porn stars for their 'freedom of speech'. If there is a case where free speech really matters, stand up for it then and there. (for example, the events in Iran, btw what's going in there now?).

not raped?

[reiisi]

Well, we have mention elsewhere here (and not by me) of at least one case where it was rape, even though the "actress" was of age -- deception, and violence. And the "actress" is reportedly _not_ running around making more movies, not feeling like getting out at all, although she is reportedly still breathing.

Re:Why?

[reiisi]

Well, freedom is never absolute.

And, as someone else pointed out elsewhere (and I got modded flamebait for linking to it), we don't know that the production is actually consensual in every case. We do hear about those who supposedly enjoy about it, but we often only hear about those who don't after they commit suicide or OD or end up afraid to leave the house or something.