Re: A Global Village, or the future of porn on the net

["Alex F" <alexf@iss.net>]

> At 10:00 24/07/96 +0000, Alex F wrote:

> Java classes for males and females corresponding to VRML
> objects. The class methods might include kissing, hugging,
> spanking, restraining...
> 
> A female object might be  initialized with Hillary Clinton's face, Evangelista's
> body... 

The thing is that most people who are into this stuff would probably 
view VRML graphics as too primitive to hold their interest for the 
sake of "stimulation."  I would suspect that the people who would end 
up getting involved in putting Hillary/Evangelista in, ummm, 
compromising positions would probably do it for the humor value (not 
that the censor mongers won't have a fit over this anyway).  When 
your CPU becomes the bottleneck in net connections and not the actual 
bandwidth, *then* some people might decide to spend the time 
rendering such things.  However, w/ the state of things today I have 
yet to see a totally realistic looking rendering.  You can usually 
tell a photo from a rendering.
 

> many pornographic stories on Usenet, it won't be long before
> famous personalities
> routinely get violated in cyberspace. Talk about copyright: do
> you have the right
> to prevent someone from doing this to you?
> 

I suppose slander would be some recourse, or you could copyright your 
likeness and use copyright violations as well.  Many TV/Movie stars 
do this.

Alex F
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