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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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  1. Most amazing of all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    People are still getting porn delivered in the mail?

  2. Re:Privacy? Huh? by HangingChad · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the 1st amendment is dead.

    Gunned down in the street by the 2nd amendment.

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  3. I don't know about that by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Extreme Associates produced and distributed sexually degrading material that portrayed women in the most vile and depraved manner imaginable,"

    I don't know about that. I've got a pretty good imagination.

  4. Re:This doesn't make sense. by ciderVisor · · Score: 4, Funny

    We *love* porn... until it's the kind that doesn't turn us on.

    Prude: Someone who enjoys sex less than you.
    Slut: Someone who enjoys sex more than you.

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  5. Re:Privacy? Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    portrayed women in the most vile and depraved manner imaginable

    Like, in the back of a Volkswagon?

  6. In the USA... by Organic+Brain+Damage · · Score: 2, Funny

    killing has always been acceptable, as long as it's done outside our borders (or in slums). And sex has always been highly suspect. This is nothing new. Our tendency toward mass violence is tightly intertwined with our general sexual repression. If we're all just laying about smoking dope and having sex, who will kill our enemies? And you know, we've got a lot of enemies. They hate us for our freedom.

  7. Re:Porn is obscene only if it has no plot by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

    So if shit eating had taken place while trying to overthrow an evil wizard, it would be okay.

    What a moronic restriction on free speech.

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  8. Re:And yet this is what gets censored. by jamstar7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Carlin had it right: I'd rather my kids saw images of two people making love than of two people killing each other.

    Personally, if I wanted my kids to watch two people trying to kill each other, I woulda stayed married.

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  9. Re:Privacy? Huh? by Kell+Bengal · · Score: 5, Funny
    First they came for the porn stars, but I did nothing because I was not a porn star. Then they came for the dirty magazine publishers, but I did nothing because I am not a dirty magazine publisher. Then they came for the pin-up girls, but I did nothing because I am not a pin-up girl.

    And then we had no porn, and no one came for me.

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  10. Re:Porn is obscene only if it has no plot by Bones3D_mac · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm... wouldn't this apply to almost everything on YouTube that reaches "viral" status? (Like monkey's casually drinking their own urine fresh from the tap, etc...)

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  11. you don't know that by commodoresloat · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's quite possible that some of them killed themselves!

  12. Re:Privacy? Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Are you kidding? As anime, at least a dozen young korean children chained to radiators were exploited in the creation of the work. Someone's gotta animate that shit.

  13. Re:And yet this is what gets censored. by tinkerghost · · Score: 2, Funny

    It seems odd to me that pictures of naked people is censored, but, if I wanted, I could post videos of "zombies" killing mowing each other down with chainsaws with no public outcry whatsoever.

    Hmm, zombie slasher porn. I'm sure there's a market for that somewhere ....

  14. Re:Porn is obscene only if it has no plot by couchslug · · Score: 4, Funny

    "So if shit eating had taken place while trying to overthrow an evil wizard, it would be okay."

    Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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