The thing that I don’t agree with on the subject of obscenity is the fact that there are state laws on the subject, and for example I’m using the Home dish satellite and the Amateur Action dial and download, which was also called the U.S. V Thomas. Isn’t this all in the privacy of their own homes. I always thought that there was a law that protected companies for this exact thing, but I guess I must have been confused on that topic. In the case of these two companies, they were both tried for obscenity, but not in the states that they were producing the porn. The case that blows my mind is the Amateur Action case.
All they were doing was giving the people a chance to download the pictures if the wanted to, and they even had a police officer come in to examine that the porn was fine to produce. It’s kind of like me asking an officer for directions. If they told me to go down a one way street to get to my destination, I would. Then again if they pulled me over for it I would argue it for sure. I know that the obscenity law is different from state to state, but wouldn’t that mean that almost everything is illegal somewhere? The court decided that they were guilty on all counts for the first trial. Thomas went to the appeals court to fight this decision, but he was told the exact same thing; the fact that he need to find out which jurisdictions were more conservative than his own, and to tailor it to their jurisdiction. I still can’t believe that the company hired an officer to check the work and still got in trouble, but I guess that what the obscenity act was made to do.
