Child porn viewing Punishable with Five years jail and Rs. ten lakh fineh

Child porn viewers to be jailed

New IT Act broadens list of offences

By Jayant Mishra in Mumbai @ Monday, February 16, 2009 9:11 AM




Browsing child pornography sites is to become an offence in India, along with the creation or transmission of child pornography.

The newly-proposed Information Technology bill, which is awaiting presidential assent, will punish anyone publishing, creating, exchanging, downloading or browsing any electronic depiction of children in an "obscene or indecent or sexually explicit manner". Offenders are liable to five years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1,000,000.

This is the first time in nine years that the bill has been revised. Other changes include bringing cyber terrorism, identity theft and violation of privacy into the domain of cyber crime. Critics of the bill say that it will enable the government to snoop into citizens’ computers while investigating "any offence".

Section 67 of the existing act deals with "publishing obscene information in electronic form", but does not specifically define "pornography" or make it an offence. Child pornography is not even mentioned. But the revised avatar, Section 67B, proposes specifically to punish involvement in sexually explicit content that depicts children. It will also be an offence to "cultivate, entice or induce children to online relationship with other children for a sexual act."

Cybercrime experts believe that once the bill is introduced it will have a huge positive impact. The only fear is that innocent users who accidentally open a site could be branded offenders. Source

Northern Peaks: Canada's Porn Channel

The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission has granted Alberta-based Real Productions approval for a digital pornography channel. It's to be called Northern Peaks.

Why does Canada crave homegrown porn? The broadcast regulations require only 15 percent Canadian content, but Real Productions' owner voluntarily promised 50 percent. How will anyone be able to tell? Will the guys keep their tuques on? Will the women say things like, "I don't have any money, but I bet I can think of another way to pay for this Pizza Pizza, eh?"

Apparently, Canadians are weary of nude Americans. Real Productions President Shaun Donnelly said in a Reuters article, "I think as Canadians there is a bit of a tiredness in seeing all American stuff. There is always that thrill for something that is local and you get the sense that these are people you can meet at the supermarket."

Really? I've lived in the land of American porn my whole life, and I've never once imagined I could meet our porn stars at the supermarket. They don't look local. They don't even look terrestrial.

As Real Productions' VP for marketing, Ashley Corsiatto, told the Herald, "I don't know about you, but I'm tired of seeing the Silicon Valley girls constantly." Well, it may be time to develop a more wholesome hobby.

"Different people like different things. You can't keep serving the same thing over and over and expect them to swallow it."

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