The department's most closely watched case involves "extreme" porn producer Rob Zicari and his North Hollywood company Extreme Associates. The prolific Zicari is charged with selling five allegedly obscene videotapes, which he now markets as the "Federal Five," that depict simulated rapes and murder.Almost reveling in the charges, Zicari's Web site says, "The most controversial company in porn today! Guess what? Controversy ... sells!"
The case hangs on a strategic move by the Justice Department that could make or break hundreds of future cases. Instead of bringing charges in Hollywood, where Zicari easily defeated a local obscenity ordinance recently in a jury trial, department officials ordered his tapes from Pittsburgh, Pa., and charged him there, hoping for a jury pool less porn-friendly.
Industry lawyers and top executives contend that the courts should rule that because the tapes were ordered on the Internet, the "community standard" demanded by the law should be the standard of the whole community of the World Wide Web.
The Internet is filled with ample evidence of even more hard-core or offensive material from abroad, they say, and someone in Pittsburgh should not be able to determine what someone in Hollywood can order.
So much for community standards. The culture war is being fought one battle at a time.
Anyone making a film about the Clinton presidency would be remiss if they did not include simulations of rape and murder. This must be tolerated in all explicit sexual videos. < /sarcasm >
Porn is a Civil Liberty, I'm Pro-Choice Porn.
Unfortunately, out there in the hinterland there are legions of you.
A psychiatrist's dream. People who like to sit and watch others fornicate have serious deep-rooted mental problems.