Mike AI - Steve Sweet is calling you out!

[JR]

Originally posted by Max Sweet@Feb 20 2004, 05:59 PM
JR - Good post. It looks like you've put a lot of thought into it. However I don't think the Extreme case is any comparison as the BDSM content we produce is not that much different than half a dozen other sites producing content in the US. What this REALLY boils down to is the local police and what their definitions are. We'll soon see if the court agrees with them or not.

Extreme is "similar". they pushed the limits, made themselves a target and it eventually it came back to haunt them. Unless Canadian law is different and legal decisions are made by trial by combat or by jousting in the parking lot, then it ALWAYS about interpretation.... that of the defense and the prosecutors... and their interpetations of law, of events, of actions and so on.

you are now saying its about "interpretations of a gray area of the law" without acknowledging that you pushed the limits of that gray area... made a conscious choice to base a large part of your business on dealing with that gray area.. then you later cry fowl when it all goes wrong.

i wish you guys luck, i really do. i dont have a problem with anything you have done with consenting models. but the law often does. in fact, the law does in a very wide variety of situations. even more often, those people enforcing the law have a big problem with it. In the end, the law is interpreted by people. those people have their own tastes, their own agendas, their own opinions and their own interpretations of what is and is not legal. if you are choosing to live and work in a gray area... then you cannot possibly be surprised at various interpretations... nor of the consequences as a result of different interpretations.

all that matters in the end, are those interpretations of the law by the same people who will be giving the orders to kick your doors in, arrest you, sieze your assets and put you in prison.



Last edited by JR at Feb 20 2004, 06:32 PM