Understand and feel the same. Must admit I really have no real clue about US law on this matter except for the basic ones about underaged models and child porn, but I have been told that regardless of laws, deviantART "never allowed explict material". Apparently they just forgot to highlight the paragraph in the rules or something. By "explict material" I assume they mean pornographic material. The problem is to define pornographic material from just erotic art. I'm guessing, from recent discussions etc, that the line is drawn by 'blatant show of sex, bodyfluids, etc'. Although porn can YES very much still be art, it is still a rather special and problematic form... I certainly wouldn't be surprised if there are laws regarding how you are allowed to distrubute it, really. Especially in the US. *chough*
Though I can see why DA don't want to ditribute porn. There are much nice and good porn on DA, but just think of all the g'damned "Here is me and my boyfriend fucking!" pictures that they would have to host if they did honestly allow everything. o.o;
Aw, i don't think you should worry about feeling like a criminal though, Soltian. Heh, as a private person you can always be plain art. The problem for deviantART is that they are big enough and circulate enough money wth their huge servers etc that they probably can be qualified as a sort of company. Hence why they suddenly have to watch their back for these things, either they like it or not.
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Date: 2004-05-31 01:22 pm (UTC)Though I can see why DA don't want to ditribute porn. There are much nice and good porn on DA, but just think of all the g'damned "Here is me and my boyfriend fucking!" pictures that they would have to host if they did honestly allow everything. o.o;
Aw, i don't think you should worry about feeling like a criminal though, Soltian. Heh, as a private person you can always be plain art. The problem for deviantART is that they are big enough and circulate enough money wth their huge servers etc that they probably can be qualified as a sort of company. Hence why they suddenly have to watch their back for these things, either they like it or not.