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Gardai Seize Porn - What About Real Crime?

19-09-2008 10:38PM

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JupiterKid

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It's not as if there's nothing for the Gardai to do what with crime, especially violent crime soaring, but a friend emailed me today telling me that the Gardai raided all the sex shops in Dublin to seize their porn videos.

Article here:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0919/dvd.html

Now correct me if I'm wrong but what the hell in the year 2008 are the Gardai doing seizing porno DVDs from Sex shops? Yes, by all means crack down hard on child porn but adult videos? Seriously what bloody decade are we in? :mad:

Since when does the censor determine what fully grown adults can and cannot watch as entertainment? It's embarrassing.

Despite big changes in recent years, let's face it: Ireland is in many ways still a pretty backward country...:(

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real crime is too hard

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#2 19-09-2008 10:41PM

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I think you missed the word "unlicenced".

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#3 19-09-2008 10:41PM

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hah

now all the **** can get a taste of what the stoners have been enduring for decades.

enjoy it, bastards.

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#4 19-09-2008 10:43PM

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Afraid you wont get anymore porn? You should try this thing called the interweb

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#5 19-09-2008 10:50PM

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My friend works in a sex shop. It was raided and the Gardai still do this at least once a year. The problem is that porn DVDs can't get a licence in the first place because the censors refuse to classify them, making them illegal.

By law, anyone who purchases, owns or views a porn DVD/video is also a deemed to be a criminal. WTF year are we in anyway? The social backwardness of this country makes me despair sometimes!

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#6 19-09-2008 10:53PM

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People buy their porn in sex shops?

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#7 19-09-2008 10:54PM

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JupiterKid wrote: »

My friend works in a sex shop. It was raided and the Gardai still do this at least once a year. The problem is that porn DVDs can't get a licence in the first place because the censors refuse to classify them, making them illegal.

By law, anyone who purchases, owns or views a porn DVD/video is also a deemed to be a criminal. WTF year are we in anyway? The social backwardness of this country makes me despair sometimes!

If you're buying it when it's easily downloadable, you're doing something wrong.

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#8 19-09-2008 10:55PM

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There isn't enough 'real' crime in Ireland to get the gardas the overtime they crave.

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#9 19-09-2008 10:56PM

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I wonder how many were caught in the act.

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#10 19-09-2008 10:58PM

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This type of "crime detection" brings in easy money for the state , the more serious stuff costs money.:rolleyes:

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#11 19-09-2008 10:58PM

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I didn't say I wanted to buy porn for myself. I don't need to for a good reason..:D But if others want to, then why not? I thought this country was supposed to have matured and become more liberal and open-minded?

Surely downloading porn from the internet is also a crime? If any film is "unlicenced" ie not seen by the film censor, then it's completely illegal. Under Irish law it is a crime to download porn. The law is an ass.

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#12 19-09-2008 11:00PM

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MistressMord wrote: »

hah

now all the **** can get a taste of what the stoners have been enduring for decades.

enjoy it, bastards.

Feelings of ambition passing them by?

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#13 19-09-2008 11:03PM

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i-bloodhound wrote: »

I wonder how many were caught in the act.

Sticky subject.:P

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#14 19-09-2008 11:15PM

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I was in tesco earlier today and saw some DVD's for sale. Not porn.
I wondered who buys DVD's these days.

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#15 19-09-2008 11:39PM

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I buy my child porn from Tesco, it's slightly cheaper there than in HMV

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#16 19-09-2008 11:41PM

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Tago Mago wrote: »

I buy my child porn from Tesco, it's slightly cheaper there than in HMV

every little helps

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#17 19-09-2008 11:46PM

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What are those 'movies' they have in Tower Records? Ah yes, 'erotic feature films'. :pac:

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#18 19-09-2008 11:49PM

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This is an absolute disgrace. Like has already been said the Irish film industry refuses to give porn a rating so wtf can the shop owners do!?

The corrupt state is quite happy to take VAT though funnily enough from the shops involved. For what? for something they will steal anyway? I say **** our backwards system. Complete and total hypocrites we have.

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#19 19-09-2008 11:50PM

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Some of this unlicensed stuff could contain footage of underage teens posing as adults. Technically speaking it can be classed as underage XXX

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#20 20-09-2008 12:00AM

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If you see a guard wandering around in a few days, with bloodshot eyes and callouses on his hand, you'll know he was on the team.

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#21 20-09-2008 12:02AM

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ejmaztec wrote: »

If you see a guard wandering around in a few days, with bloodshot eyes and callouses on his hand, you'll know he was on the team.

I thought they were all ****.

Note: I do not think cops are ****. They have treated me quite well in the past.

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#22 20-09-2008 12:04AM

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I hope the guards have to sit through hours and hours of hairy Willie O'Dea porn

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#23 20-09-2008 12:06AM

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ITT: Where do you buy your porn?

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#24 20-09-2008 12:07AM

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Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

every little helps

Their Value range is well worth the money, so I'm told.

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#25 20-09-2008 12:08AM

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Hang on

RTE page wrote:

Unlicensed DVDs seized in Dublin

Friday, 19 September 2008 19:44
Gardaí in Dublin have seized unlicensed DVDs with an estimated retail value of up to €400,000.
A total of 7,800 DVDs were recovered following searches of five premises as part of an ongoing operation.
A file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

There's no mention of porn there, have I missed something?

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#26 20-09-2008 12:11AM

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The guy wrote: »

ITT: Where do you buy your porn?

I don't. I get it free on the internet.

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#27 20-09-2008 12:13AM

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Terry wrote: »

I don't. I get it free on the internet.

Xtube I guess

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#28 20-09-2008 12:14AM

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The DVDs are unlicencesed as censor thinks they are too graphic. These dvds are licenced and legal everywhere else in Europe and they can be bought from online stores in those countries making a mockery of the censors and gardai's actions.

These are'nt dvds of kids, or underage girls just "Gonzo" Style violent sex films that are legal in USA, UK, most EU.

Porn on dvd has much clearer/better picture quality than watching mpegs and avi's on your PC.

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#29 20-09-2008 12:17AM

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Feral Mutant wrote: »

Hang on

There's no mention of porn there, have I missed something?

yes you missed the van load of heroes around South William st earlier for one anyway.

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#30 20-09-2008 12:25AM

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ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

The DVDs are unlicencesed as censor thinks they are too graphic. These dvds are licenced and legal everywhere else in Europe and they can be bought from online stores in those countries making a mockery of the censors and gardai's actions.

These are'nt dvds of kids, or underage girls just "Gonzo" Style violent sex films that are legal in USA, UK, most EU.

Porn on dvd has much clearer/better picture quality than watching mpegs and avi's on your PC.

You can only blame the Catholic Church for that

One would want to be a hard up idiot to buying from these shops, ie e60 to e70 a vid.

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#31 20-09-2008 12:56AM

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JupiterKid wrote: »

By law, anyone who purchases, owns or views a porn DVD/video is also a deemed to be a criminal. WTF year are we in anyway? The social backwardness of this country makes me despair sometimes!

99% of motorists were measured to break the old 30mph speed limit in urban areas
L drivers aren't allowed out on their own either
most Irish computer users , have copied or used pirated software many through casual copying

Used to be the case that you could sell p0rn until the censor classified it , so they've closed that loophole maybe,

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