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28. You're all leaving out THE BEST PORN STORY EVER!!!

The good people of Provo, Utah decided to take a local video store owner to court for renting out porn videos. Well this was going to be a sure loser for the defence until the defence lawyer had a brilliant idea. He decided to find out how often porn was ordered at a local hotel. Turns out the good people of Utah County ordered more porn than anywhere in the U.S....

Oh yeah, it took the jury 10 minutes to come up with a not guilty verdict and slink away.

I'll see if I can find that on Google.

Edit: Found it! Thank you, Jesus.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/23/us/erotica-special-report-technology-sent-wall-street-into-market-for-pornography.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm


EROTICA INC. -- A special report.; Technology Sent Wall Street Into Market for Pornography

By Timothy Egan
The New York Times
October 23, 2000

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Just before the trial, Mr. Peterman's lawyer, Randy Spencer, came up with an idea while looking out the window of the courtroom at the Provo Marriott. He sent an investigator to the hotel to record all the sex films that a guest could obtain through the hotel's pay-per-view channels. He then obtained records on how much erotic fare people here were buying from their cable and satellite television providers.

As it turned out, people in Utah County, a place that often boasts of being the most conservative area in the nation, were disproportionately large consumers of the very videos that prosecutors had labeled obscene and illegal. And far more Utah County residents were getting their adult movies from the sky or cable than they were from the stores owned by Larry Peterman.

Why file criminal charges against a lone video retailer, Mr. Spencer argued, when some of the biggest corporations in America, including a hotel chain whose board of directors includes W. Mitt Romney, president of the Salt Lake City Olympics organizing committee, and a satellite broadcaster heavily backed by Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the News Corporation, were selling the same product?

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It took only a few minutes for the jury to find Mr. Peterman not guilty on all charges. His case illustrates what has happened to an industry that used to be confined to the margins of commerce, in the seedy parts of most towns, run by people who never dreamed of taking their companies to Wall Street.