http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/13/labor-to-introduce-bill-outlawing-revenge-porn
This article states that Labor (Australia) will introduce a bill next week to make it a federal offence to distribute, or threaten to distribute, private sexual images or film clips without consent, a practice also known as revenge porn. Under the proposed amendments to the criminal code, anyone who partakes in revenge porn will be liable for up to three years in jail. People who run websites or other electronic platforms such as social media pages dedicated to revenge porn could face an even harsher penalty of five years in jail. This also applies for people who threaten to release images of a third person in order to extort money or cause humiliation. The proposed laws would apply to images or film clips posted on websites, or distributed via SMS, email and social media. But for most of the victims of revenge porn, predominantly women, who have had images and video of them distributed of them before laws were brought in in their countries of origin, gaining justice using existing laws is a challenge. Personally, I disagree with this as I believe that rather than the people who exert revenge porn being charged, it should be the so called "victim" themselves as they are the instigator, their decision to initially send these images/video clips puts them at fault and furthermore, they are sending these pornographic images without the legal right, if anything these people bring it on themselves, revenge porn is a consequence of such foolish decisions.
TV must push back against Apple and Netflix, says Discovery boss
David Zaslav, who was America’s best-paid chief executive last year with a total package worth more than $156m, said broadcasters and producers should resist pressure to serve up programming piecemeal to the benefit of technology giants. He told senior executives from the BBC, ITV and Sky, among others: “Apple is a fantastic company and there’s probably nobody better at building the right consumer interface. Netflix and Amazon and all the device opportunity, all these things are great. “But the thing we've got to remember is every one of these things, and I don’t mean to be pejorative, it’s just a device.I believe without netflix there would be no entertainment and without an iphone/smartphone there would be not source to watch these on as smartphones gives us a chance to interact/ watch movies and share our stories with people.
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