UK violent image laws

[icey]

whilst some of its very clear it is also intentionally (to my mind anyway) very vague in other areas leaving a lot of loopholes, we dont consider some bruiing violent or a knife to the throat...however because of it's cleverly worded things such as knife to the throat or any other part of the body for that matter will come under the heading of appears to be violent or life threatening.

bruising,marks etc has to be considered severe or appear to look severe, it will mostly depend upon the judges interpretation not the jurys

any actions depicted in the images ae act which results in or appears to result (or be likely to result) in serious injury to a person’s anus, breasts or genitals,

again the judges interpretation but when you look further into it in the more detailed papers you find that any action which results in markage is considered serious injury.

the onus is also on the defence to prove there innocence rather than the prosecution to prove the charges which is a first in uk law as far as im aware.

you have to prove that you didnt have it for the sole purpose of sexual arousal (how the hell do you prove that!)
or you have to prove that you didnt have it for an unreasonable length of time

you have to prove that the images were sent to you unknowingly

there are only certain defences you can use.

if you look around now more and more you will find that many uk sites have dissapeared some time ago and that most new photo sets show the model at the beginning of the shoot smiling and usually dressed before any 'activitys' smiling and afterwards dressed and smiling.

people are unlikely to be found in possesion but if someone reports you you may find yourself in a bit of s**t though the chances of that are small, they are more likely more interested in catching 'bigger fish'
although it is still worth knowing the law and your rights, or lack of them!

thee will be quite a large crackdown and a few showcases to begin with as with any new law, ive already seen many interviews with head of police forces in various areas of the country asserting that they will take action and will take it extremely seriously and quite a few judges have said the same.

in case you're wondering being in possesion of hentai pics can also possibly become part of the new laws, many MPs feel that the new laws ae not strong enough,that there are too many loopholes and are looking at new ways of tightening them down.

prison sentences are 3 yrs for possesion, it also becomes more complicated with an extra 4 yrs if you are the 'perpetrator' of the violence (assault) and an extra 18 mths if you are the 'victim' in the pics (aiding and abetting assault) and up to 8 yrs if you are the person transmitting them, if you run a site and have a us server or any other country for that matter it makes no difference (our server was in the us) you are still breaking uk laws even if any pics you keep are uploaded onto your server and not your harddrive doesnt matter same rules apply.

there is a way legally of protecting yourself a little if you are thinking about setting up a site , you can do it in a way that your less traceable but as with anything eventually they can catch up with you if they wanted to go to extreme lengths.

and for anyone using an encrpytion programme such as pgp to save your images while it take a lot to crack it they can, you can refuse to give the password but there is up to a 10yr sentence for this lol.
but i think you'd have to be into it pretty bigtime for that,unfortunately there has been a lot of panicking and as i already mentioned quite a few sites have dissapeared, even none uk ones