It’s a slippery slope you know. Very slippy. A slippery slope that’s been coated in washing-up liquid and water. Via Michele, is news that someone who could not register Porn.ie went off and registered Orn.ie and so created a subdomain allowing a URL of http://p.orn.ie – clever. It also seems as well as using a .ie domain for the hardcore pornography website, the porn itself is also hosted on Irish servers.
I’d like to see the commentary from the Minister for Communications and the Irish Domain Registry on this and I’d also like to see the legality of a hardcore website operating out of Ireland and using the respected .ie doman space to do it. (Third safest domain space in the world according to SiteAdvisor, don’t ya know)
So a question to the bright legal eagles online, is this an obscene publication?
I find this utterly disgusting. We, as a nation, should be ashamed. We’re letting a private individual peddle this smut in our internationally representative namespace.
When really, it’s our national broadcaster who should be doing this. How much of a reduction in the license fee could we see with an introduction of “RTE 3: The Lovely Girls Channel”?
Pale skinned, red haired girls gyrating to trad. music is a niche that hasn’t been scratched yet.
“Pale skinned, red haired girls gyrating to trad”.
I second that!
Well, based purely on common sense, I would say that it’s clearly obscene.
I don’t like the idea, but then again, I’m more or less against porn in general.
Porn has been around for hundreds of years. It’s not going to go away.
“the porn itself is also hosted on Irish servers.”
Is it though? Doesn’t it look like some kind of ad site, with nothing hosted on it…? Looks like everything is on perfectgonzo.com… I could be wrong, I didn’t exactly delve in there.. ha ha.
Fair play to them.
It’s dodgy, as they don’t ask for confirmation that the user is legally allowed to view pornographic content before showing the material.
Also, it does seem just to link to other sites through iframes, namely 208.64.44.37, which is part of the IP space of the Virgin Islands (ironic?)
So apart from the warning/disclaimer, I see no issue.
Frankp – the code that displays the content is on a server in Dublin. The fact that the returned content in the iframe might be from somewhere else isn’t really relevant.
Does anyone have a link to this filth?
*unzips trousers*
Why the fuss about the website hosting the content in Ireland? Aren’t you able to buy porn in the shops?
Ian – yes and no. To get hardcore you’d probably have to go to a sex shop. Of course you could just order it online anyway ….
Well, based purely on common sense, I would say that it’s clearly obscene.
I don’t like the idea, but then again, I’m more or less against porn in general.