a futile gesture

[ewx]

Gutter rag bounces legal system into allowing it to broadcast extreme pornography?

Comments

[brrm.livejournal.com]

Is it still extreme pornography if it has large black bars added? (So I'm told...)

[gerald_duck]

Well, why not? If I can broadcast porn on the net, I don't see why the News of the World shouldn't have the same right.

Putting it in the paper itself would be a different matter, of course…

[(Anonymous)]

This comment from the judge suggests that it might become straightforward for newspapers to get round privacy law:

Mr Justice Eady said that Mr Mosley no longer had a reasonable expectation of privacy because the content of the video was now "widely familiar".

So all you have to do is "leak" something on the Internet, and a few days later your target's privacy is sufficiently ruined that you can legitimately invade it some more.

(I feel no particular sympathy for Max Mosley, though.)

Only in Britain...

[toothycat]

The judge said that the footage was "very brief, containing shots of Mr Mosley taking part in sexual activities with five prostitutes, and it also covers the tea break".