tammymc opened this issue on Mar 01, 2004 ยท 134 posts
Ratteler posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 9:18 AM
Armor, Last things firts. Most of us are questioning the Law, not R'osity's compliance with it. I look at R'osity as a victum here as much as we are. In a worst case cenario, they would be shut down for YEARS before they ever got a day in court to decide if they did anything wrong. They have been given the effective choice of comply or go out of business. What we are questioning is the Law. A photograph of a man in a sexualy suggest pose with a three year old involves putting a 3 year old in a sexually suggestive position. That's harmful in my book, and it harming a REAL 3 year old. If if it's "photoshoped" to put the 3 yeard in the position out of context, it's still harmfull to the childs reputation, and self image if/when that photo is seen by him. But in the case of 3D meshes... NO ONE WAS HARMED iN THEIR Creation. This Law is as stupid as saying 3D meshes shouldn't be allowed to seen in violent situatations. That would end the video game industry pretty fast. Also a good part of the movie industry. If creating the image hurts no one, there should be no law against creating it. How bout making a law that makes it illegal to lure a child with pornography or nude images of any kind? That would pretty much be targeted ONLY at the pedophile who missuses the art we created. It would just as effective as any other law, which means great for punishing the offender after the fact. Think about this, I can do an infinate number of 3D pictures of children being killed, and the law is irrelevent because it won't be sexual.