drifterlee opened this issue on Apr 23, 2006 ยท 121 posts
pleonastic posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 10:37 PM
what happens when they start cracking down on individuals as well? first they have to have jurisdiction, and not all of us are in the US. then it has to be worth it; this isn't quite the same thing as the RIAA, because nobody loses any money just because we render nude fairies. also, it is not at all certain that your average nude fairy constitutes child porn even in the US (i have read the relevant law) -- a lot of sites are completely overreacting IMO. if they want to come after me because they want to prove in a court of law that my nude fairies are child porn, let them bring it on. (of course i would first have to render some nude fairies. maybe i'll do it tonight, just to have an actual render at which somebody could get offended.) what do we do then? we do what people whose form of expression has been persecuted have always done. we go underground. we'll post anonymously on servers located in less prudish jurisdictions. don't get me wrong, i am not advocating we just roll over and give up. i am strongly in favour of banding together and standing up to this type of idiocy right here and now. i just don't necessarily expect a site like renderosity to stand up to it for us. i haven't been here long, but this site doesn't strike me as being a force for artistic expression, it strikes me primarily as a business, and the galleries are meant to bring in more business. nude fairy lovers have to look elsewhere for support.