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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. Re:Privacy? Huh? by Andr+T. · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was thinking to myself... why is this any different to any porn site out there? Is porn now prohibited in the US?

    I thought there was child porn or something like that, but, after reading TFA, I can't see a problem at all.

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  2. Re:Privacy? Huh? by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why are you laughing?

    I know what you are saying, but Bill Hicks did this in some of his material:

    By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root. I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show.

  3. Re:Where's Larry? by Phroggy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's an interesting version of history. It's not all true, but it's interesting.

    Which parts aren't, and what really happened?

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