Now that’s amazing! Our very own Zensursula (Ursula von der Leyen, German Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and infamous amongst the German public for her desperate try to censor the internet) has indexed the new Rammstein album “Liebe is für alle da” (Love is for everyone), meaning that the album cannot be sold to minors and cannot be stocked on store shelves. The album will now only be made available for purchase behind the counter at shops that still carry the CD. Word is that the tracks "Ich tu dir weh" and "Pussy" along with some promotional imagery featuring guitarist Richard Kruspe spanking a female were cause of the ban.

“Ich tu dir weh” is a song about S/M and the joys of giving and receiving pain for sexual sensation (find the song above and the lyrics (German & English) here) and the title “Pussy”, which was banned because it apparently advocates unsafe sex in the times of AIDS  is in actual fact a song against sex tourism in third world countries. Some politicians obviously still think teenagers need Rock Music to hear about the evil force called sex. Oh, well…

Go, buy the album! It’s fucking amazing anyways!

With 49% voting boy and 42% saying girl the results for the last Trap Thursday were much closer than the week before but again the majority of voters was wrong ;) The girl on the photo is Tavi Gevinson, a fashion blogger who started her blog at the age of 11. The rest of the set can be seen here. Sorry guys, fooled you once again ;) But don’t mourn, here’s your next chance! The photo below was sent in by Jacob but doesn’t show himself, don’t get confused here :p

The yearly US defence budget is nearly the amount we would
need to feed and educate every child on earth for 5 years

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Picture This! Entertainment and its sister label Picture This! Home Video have shuttered, closing its doors on September 29 according to a message posted to its website. Doug Witkins founded film company DW Diversified 25 years ago and entered the distribution market with off-shoot Picture This! thirteen years ago with a gala launch at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. His aim was licensing North American independent LGBT films to distributors and networks around the world. In 1998, the company established its domestic wing, which has released almost 100 features and shorts theatrically via home entertainment and TV in North America.

The labels championed gay genre films as well as “coming-of-age” stories, including “Garcon Stupide,” “Come Undone,” “Clara’s Summer,” and the “Boys Briefs” series. It is unclear as the company navigates bankruptcy court what will be the fate of its library. More about this at IndieWIRE

Photo found at Orkut

^ click on the photo for a beautiful paintefied version made by heartkore

Sorry, to busy playing to make a real post!

Olly will try to entertain you meanwhile ;p

…says the Australian government. They are accusing Microsoft of protecting child abusers by including powerful encryption in Windows 7. A member of the Australian government working with “cyber-safety” is outraged that Microsoft is including powerful encryption in Windows 7, better known for its touch screen support: If this new product gives paedophiles protection to keep harming children I would be extremely disappointed. I would expect the company to take moves to rectify this. They seem unaware Bitlocker, Microsofts’ file encryption application, is anything but new: It was actually introduced in Windows Vista which was released 3 years ago. Australian “cyber law experts” are now demanding laws which would allow the state to lock up evil encryption users who fail to share their keys with the state.

Australian police themselves can already obtain warrants to secretly install key loggers, but cannot jail people for refusing to reveal encryption keys – they seek laws emulating those of the UK, where refusal to decrypt information for police is a serious crime. Under the UK’s draconian Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, police potentially have the power to lock up people who refuse to hand over keys to data they believe to be encrypted, but just how this works when encrypted data is indistinguishable from random noise is something courts have yet to establish. Americans too find their Constitutional rights subverted when it comes to encryption – in 2009 a judge ordered a man to turn over his encryption keys, ruling after a lengthy series of appeals that this did not constitute self-incrimination, which is protected against by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution.

Thwarted snoopers will doubtless howl all the harder when stenography, where it is all but impossible to demonstrate that encrypted data is even present, becomes more accessible. Technology also exists which allows a any number of dummy keys to be given to authorities, capable of unlocking fake files in order to thwart such laws, whilst allowing the real encrypted file to go unmolested. Both of these technologies pose severe problems to such laws, although it seems unlikely this will discourage further attacks on civil liberties by those keen to extend their powers by appealing to child protection hysteria.

However, Microsoft has previously been caught hiding backdoors in its encryption for the benefit of government snoopers, so if you don’t wanna get trapped for viewing pictures of 17 year old shirtless boys (which are CP nowadays if the pose is just a bit too sexy) you should rely on Open Source products like TrueCrypt. [via Sankaku Complex]

Two twins who downloaded a variety of shota materials have been jailed for possessing “virtual child pornography,” with the judge condemning them for “victimising” imaginary children. The men, both 20 and residents of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, were reported to police by a sister-in-law after she came across “distressing” images on their computer. Police searches soon found a substantial collection of shotacon material on their computers, saying 90% were “cartoon drawings called Japanese Anime.” The pair, one of whom is said to be an active homosexual, were subsequently charged with possession of child pornography, both for the minority of real images and their manga collection, which under Canadian law is considered “virtual child pornography.” The state prosecutor insists that victimising fictional children is a very serious offence:

“Every one of these images involves the victimization of children. The victimization wouldn’t happen in the first place if there weren’t people there to look at this material.”

More details can be found here. So, looking at images of drawn boys is “victimising children”? Does that mean you can get child allowance for drawn kids too? No? Too bad. And children wouldn’t get raped if shota wouldn’t exist? That’s interesting because 1. I heard (just a rumour) that children were victims of sexual abuse before manga existed and 2. Japan – where all the shota manga come from and are legal – has one of the lowest sex crime rates of all industrialized countries.