50 years in prison for making porn

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-04-23 12:35pm

But perhaps the most important thing about Ass Clowns 3 is this: it could land its distributors, Robert Zicari (a/k/a Rob Black) and his fiancée, Janet Romano (a/k/a Lizzie Borden), in prison for the next 50 years.

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Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-04-23 12:45pm

I suppose reading that sums up why I'd never bother to pay for a porno film, if even I liked shit like that. I'll stick with clips and decent images.

50 years though? Ouch.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-04-23 12:51pm

Very good article.

I doubt anyone will ever land in prison for 50 years on an obscenity charge, though certainly with Ashcroft in the Justice Department you never know. Pretty fucked up all around.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2004-04-23 03:19pm

Damn, those movies sound HOT!

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-04-23 03:39pm

Right, guess I can be thankful that I depend on the much harder to track, and much easier to download, internet for my porn needs. Even so, this is trampling on freedom of speech like never before. I mean, come the fuck on. As long as it interferes with no one else's rights, you can do, say, videotape, photograph, type whatever the fuck you want. All the people in the video, despite depicting rape, are completely consenting (presumably, if not I say throw the book at them with a rape charge).

Perhaps Asscroft should try banning the bible next, as there are plenty of detailed accounts of sex and rape there.

-Damien

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-04-23 03:52pm

And believe it or not, some of this stuff is so mind-blowingly horrendous that even Extreme puts some limits on its availability. A long stretch of the Ass Clowns 3 DVD that I purchased at a local porn emporium is labeled CENSORED, but it reportedly consists of a crucified Jesus coming down off the cross to have anal sex with an angel. (If you want to see it, you have to buy the "director’s cut" version, available only by mail. In fact, it is this version that is named in the federal case.)

I saw at least part of the FRONTLINE story on porn. It was pretty interesting but if the people named in the suit are who I think they are they are pretty messed up. On Frontline this group (I think it was the same people who make the ASS Clowns movies) were filming a scene in a garage. This woman was supposed to get beat up a little and then raped. That's all the planning they had and all the woman sort of knew before filming the movie. IIRC she had a real black eye when they were done. Apparently she was okay with it...but it's pretty messed up if you ask me.

I'm not necessarilly for banning stuff like that but I would hope there wasn't enough of a market of it to survive but it sounds like there is.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-04-23 07:02pm

Been there, done that, seen the film, big deal. To be honest the production & plot of this movie was so awful that it was funny. I've seen a million perfectly legal S&M movies that were far worse than this, the only "controversial" parts was how the actress got assraped by a bin Laden look-a-like and the Jesus assfuck, big fucking deal. The movie, which some might argue is pretty tasteless, is downright tame by porn standards when you look at the sex acts it contains.