I’m very curious to how exactly the government decide whether something is porn or isn’t porn, and as such who is or isn’t a porn star. Is it purely based on the company that produced the films, or the content, or the screen time percentage between plot and nudity? I mean there are some pretty revealing films that still gets aired in Taiwan.
Maybe they use the “I know it when I see it” rule by Supreme Court judge Potter Stewart
With all the uproar over the Easy-Cards, I would have thought they had actual pornography on them!
Yes, it is difficult for the layman to distinguish pornography from pornology.
Have you guys ever heard of a thing called the interwebs or something like that? I hear they got some porn there
you know what? I’ve often wondered how the porn industry
makes money at all. Nobody pays for porn no more, or do they?
I bet Al Gore didn’t realize his invention, the Internet< was
going to used to access porn.
[quote=“hansioux”]Since it is illegal here, the government doesn’t extend copyright protections to porn. Therefore it isn’t illegal to pirate it, which is how people have access to them.
As weird as that spunds…[/quote]
The following may not be a good analogy, but it shows how easy it is to find “weird” situations when looking at “piracy” and laws that come into play:
There was a time when US providers of satellite pay-tv channels refused to license those channels in Canada and Mexico. When one of those program providers sued cable companies in Canada that were picking up and redistributing their programs for “piracy of content”, the Canadian court decided that if a satellite or other radio signal reached the ground in Canada, then anybody there was allowed to pick it up. In response, the program providers developed encryption mechanisms, but soon a Canadian company cracked the encryption and manufactured decryption devices that would allow people in Canada and Mexico to view the encrypted content free of charge. Another legal battle ensued (in addition to some dirty tricks that were tried against said Canadian company), but the US companies did not prevail. Finally the program providers decided to offer affordable licensing outside of the US, so that it would become unnecessary (unattractive) for people to rely on “pirating equipment” to view those programs.
I’m curious. Do others who work in companies receive A LOT of porn from Taiwanese male colleagues? Usually LINE clips
Definitely ageing myself, but I remember coming to Taiwan and told it was best not to bring any Playboys, etc. inside the luggage just in case the luggage was opened up at CKS airport (when it was called CKS airport). Then walking around Taipei and maybe once or twice seeing what looked like a Playboy (covered heavily, but could barely see the top of the cover page) in one of those old newspaper/magazine stalls that were all over Taipei back then.