to me, the most interesting part of the whole thing is the way a lot of the actors are casting the issue as a problem for business. if our teenagers aren't allowed to broadcast sex acts, our economy will suffer! of course, no one is actually saying that, but it is sort of implicit. it may be the first time i've seen a censorship issue cast as a economic problem.
the other important thing to note is this:
The sex clip was recorded weeks ago and passed on by the bragging schoolboy to three of his friends and eventually made its way to video disc sellers in New Delhi.
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The 17-year-old boy, the son of an affluent businessman, is now in a juvenile detention center.
Sex is all fine and dandy, but you're ignoring the fact that this is the video of a girl which has been publicized without her consent.
While the arrest of Bajaj (the CEO) was wrong, I do not see why it was wrong on the part of the government to clamp down on the distribution of the video.
She shared her intimate moments with someone she trusted, and the jerk betrayed her. This is less about sex and more about privacy.
This more closely represents my opinion of this whole thing. Of course, I disagree with the role of the government this person outlined. I think it's the girl who should've been smarter and not record the video in the first place. At most, the guy should be liable and maybe get jail time for not asking her before distributing the video to others in any copyable form. Anyone else should just have to answer to their own morals. It's not the government's job to enforce more than basic morals (don't kill/mame/slander people and don't fucking steal shit) on people.
To branch back to the MPAA and RIAA, if they didn't want people to make digital copies of their media, they shouldn't have released it in a digital form in the first place, or at least come up with a real encryption scheme (which they can't if they are distributing un-expirable discs).