Lolicon is Official Illegal in the United States

[Notorious]

I had no idea that this happened, but apparently this bill was passed a month ago.

[quote=HentaiKey]Hi, we are still receiving some emails in regards to when the free section will return and I wanted to address some of the issues with it.

Earlier this year when we removed the Free section and started removing all the Lolicon people started posting on Forums that we are going Crazy and that Lolicon is legal et etc, well for all the people that think they know what

[Shadowknight]

Whoever produces any book, magazine, periodical, film, videotape, digital image, digitally- or computer-manipulated image of an actual human being, picture,

Technically the lemons don't fall under any of those categories so as long as the pictures are kept to digimon we're safe.

[Notorious]

I wasn't talking about the lemons. All of the artwork is illegal for being of underaged children (any digidestined ever) as well as for the fact that personal information isn't provided for any artist here on the DaD. It also means that most of the mangas with humans would theoretically have to be taken down.

I'd just watch my ass if I were you all. Thankfully for me I grew out of this stuff a while ago.

[That One Internet Guy]

Technically the DigiDestind pics have to go, but the lemons are protected under the Constitution.

[Wisemon]

The DigiDestined pics don't have to go! When anybody asks, we'll just say that all of the DigiDestined depicted are of legal age. They won't know the difference. It's not like Digimon fans work for these departments.

[Lukos]

Hmm... that's a bummer.

All they'd have to do is contact Toei, which they can and will do, and that's all there is to it.

[Wisemon]

All they'd have to do is contact Toei, which they can and will do, and that's all there is to it.

No problem. We'll just say that our artists drew them grown up. There is that scene at the end of 02 where they appear as adults.

[dark_golf]

i might of read it wrong but it says that

(i) actually filming, videotaping, photographing, creating a picture, digital image, or digitally- or computer-manipulated image of an actual human being;

is illegal but are the digidestined actually human beings they are human yes but they are not actual physcial human beings so either its just been a long day and either im just tired or this is actually ok

[Anonmon]

Have you guys ever heard of steganography? Encryption can also work. Or even combining the two.

If programming expertise is needed to encrypt/steganograph things on this site, I volunteer to work on the program for doing so. We could run this site as a central repository to post encrypted/stegano'd versions of works, and decrypt/reveal the real versions ourselves. If some government bastard demands we shut down, they'll have no hard evidence that we have any more "child porn" on our site, since all those innocent pictures of nice cities can't be *proven* to contain the Digidestined doin' it without our encryption keys.[/url]

[PasserBy]

I believe that HentaiKey jumped the gun on this one... again. I'm no lawer, but I have a pretty good sense of the law and I've read this document over a few times and can't understand where they got some of their facts from. Just for clarity, the article defines a performer as "any person portrayed in a visual depiction engaging in, or assisting another person to engage in, actual sexually explicit conduct."

It also states that identification, and any aliases of the performer must be aquired, as quoted here:

"(1) ascertain, by examination of an identification document containing such information, the performer's name and date of birth, and require the performer to provide such other indicia of his or her identity as may be prescribed by regulations;

(2) ascertain any name, other than the performer's present and correct name, ever used by the performer including maiden name, alias, nickname, stage, or professional name; and

(3) record in the records required by subsection (a) the information required by paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection and such other identifying information as may be prescribed by regulation."

The above states that records of the performer must be kept, NOT RECORDS OF THE ARTIST. Not only that, but the entire document is referring to an image that: "contains one or more visual depictions made after the effective date of this subsection of actual sexually explicit conduct"

It then defines the term "actual sexually explicit conduct" here: "the term "actual sexually explicit conduct" means actual but not simulated conduct as defined in clauses (i) through (v) of section 2256(2)(A) of this title" NOT SIMULATED is the key phrase here. This would exclude all drawings and other art.

It also prohibits "digitizing an image, of a visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct; or, assembling, manufacturing, publishing, duplicating, reproducing, or reissuing, a book, magazine, periodical, film, video tape, digital image, or picture, or other matter intended for commercial distribution, that contains a visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct" This is talking about taking an image or video of a real person and converting it to a digital format (for example, taking a real picture, scanning it, and thus turning it into data). It is not talking about drawing something and digitalizing it because the drawing did not include "actual sexually explicit conduct" to begin with.

I believe that hentaikey greatly misinterpreted this. If they made a mistake like this misinterpretation, that's halfway understandable, but saying that records of the artist must be kept, that's just stupid. And from the looks of this document, I would have to say that lolicon looks 100% legal in the United States. Anyway, that's my two cents on the matter, and now I think I am going to go to bed.