Filmmaker Gets 4 Years for Grossing Out Jurors [View all]

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Jacob Sullum|Jan. 16, 2013 7:41 pm

Today Ira Isaacs, a self-described "shock artist," was sentenced to four years in federal prison for shocking people a little too much. The FBI describes his crimes:

Evidence presented at trial established that beginning in or about 1999 and continuing until at least 2011, Isaacs, doing business under the name LA. Media, operated numerous websites, through which he advertised and sold obscene videos that he acquired from other people. The obscene videos included a video approximately two hours in length of a female engaging in sex acts involving human bodily waste and a video one hour and 37 minutes in length of a female engaged in sex acts with animals. The evidence presented at trial also established that in approximately 2004, Isaacs began operating under the name Stolen Car Films and made obscene videos in which he instructed women to engage in sexual activity involving human bodily waste.

http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/16/fillmmaker-gets-four-years-in-prison-for

I don't agree with what he was doing on a moral level and personally this disgusts me. I didn't see the films so I'm not sure if animal cruelty could be an issue, however as long as the humans involved were consenting adults and the humans who watch are consenting adults, I believe he should have by law the right to film this crap.