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A federal judge yesterday dismissed the complaint filed against Nirvana by the man who appeared on the band's Nevermind album cover when he was a baby. The plaintiff, Spencer Elden, will have one more chance to file an amended complaint. Elden's August 2021 lawsuit alleged that the picture of a naked baby in a swimming pool violated criminal child-pornography statutes and sought damages of at least $150,000 from each defendant. Named defendants include Nirvana, Universal Music Group, Warner Records, Courtney Love in her role as executor of frontman Kurt Cobain's estate, band members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, and others. "[T]he court will grant defendants' Motion and give plaintiff one last opportunity to amend his complaint," said yesterday's ruling by Judge Fernando Olguin in US District Court for the Central District of California. "In preparing the Second Amended Complaint, plaintiff shall carefully evaluate the contentions set forth in defendants' Motion, … [Read more...] about baby’s child-porn lawsuit against Nirvana dismissed by judge

The former acting cybersecurity director for the US Department of Health and Human Services, Tim DeFoggi, was convicted yesterday on three child porn charges. As reported by Wired , DeFoggi is the sixth suspect to be caught by the FBI's Operation Torpedo, which used controversial methods of defeating the Tor anonymizing software in order to find child porn suspects. One site frequented by DeFoggi was PedoBook, hosted by Aaron McGrath—a Nebraska man who was convicted earlier for his role in the operations. The websites were only accessible to users who installed Tor on their browsers. DeFoggi used names such as "fuckchrist" and "PTasseater" to register on the sites, where he could view more than 100 videos and more than 17,000 child porn images. The FBI seized McGrath's site in late 2012 after monitoring him for a year. Then they kept it up and running for several more weeks, gathering private communications from DeFoggi and other users. The FBI used "various investigative … [Read more...] about Cybersecurity official uses Tor but still gets caught with child porn

The online store is now a key part of the smartphone platform value proposition. Microsoft's Marketplace, offering a range of software for Windows Mobile 6.x, has been up and running for eight months. Today, the company announced a new set of policies that will be used for the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. As with Apple's App Store, Marketplace membership will cost developers $99 per year. For this, they will be able to submit an unlimited number of paid applications (with the same 70/30 split as the Apple store and existing Marketplace) and five free applications. Subsequent free applications will cost $19.99 to submit. Un like Apple's store, the Marketplace will also include a mechanism to allow time-limited trial modes. Marketplace applications will be able to use a range of business models: free, paid, ad-funded, and freemium (where basic functionality is free, and premium features are unlocked for a fee). Also published are the application certification requirements that … [Read more...] about Windows Phone 7 Marketplace to be porn-free zone

Infuriated by a critic who photoshopped his head onto the body of a male porn star, a Georgia legislator has proposed making such images illegal . Violators would face a $1,000 fine. “Everyone has a right to privacy,” Rep. Earnest Smith (D-Augusta) said in an interview with FoxNews.com. “No one has a right to make fun of anyone. It’s not a First Amendment right.” The legislation would define defamation to include cases where someone "causes an unknowing person wrongfully to be identified as the person in an obscene depiction in such a manner that a reasonable person would conclude that the image depicted was that of the person so wrongfully identified." It specifically includes "the electronic imposing of the facial image of a person onto an obscene depiction." Andre Walker, a blogger at Georgia Unfiltered, has been taunting Smith (NSFW) with images of his face photoshopped into a variety of "obscene depictions." “I cannot believe Rep. Earnest Smith thinks I’m insulting … [Read more...] about Georgia bill would ban photoshopping legislator’s head on porn star’s body

Jan. 4 (UPI) — A judge from the U.S. District Court in Central California has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the surviving members of Nirvana over the album cover to Nevermind. Spencer Elden, 30, was photographed as the naked baby swimming on the cover of the 1991 album and filed the lawsuit in August alleging that he was the victim of child pornography. Spencer Elden, who as a baby appeared naked on the cover of @Nirvana 's 'Nevermind,' is suing the band, calling the album art child pornography https://t.co/4sTQstzUBV pic.twitter.com/D0ySCZ5ww2 — Stereogum (@stereogum) August 25, 2021 Elden stated in the lawsuit that the image portrays him “like a sex worker” and has caused him “lifelong damages.” The lawsuit seeks $150,000 from photographer Kirk Weddle, surviving Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic and Courtney Love, the executor of late frontman Kurt Cobain’s estate. Former Nirvana drummer Chad Channing, who left the band before Nevermind was … [Read more...] about ‘Nevermind’ Album Cover Baby’s Child Porn Lawsuit Against Nirvana Dismissed

Audio player loading… Warning: Some of the content of this piece may be upsetting or offensive. Freedom of speech is a fundamental right included in the architecture of all civilised societies. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights created in 1948 and signed by 48 members of the United Nations states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” Still, freedom of speech is a contentious issue. In this period of political bipartisanship, where lines are being drawn further and further apart, the right to the freedom of speech is being played as a trump card (no pun intended) to allow people to voice beliefs that they know are going to be offensive or upsetting. And to a certain degree, they are right to do so; that is the reason that the law surrounding the freedom of speech exists. … [Read more...] about Should Facebook police thought? – reflecting on the leak of its rulebook

Original movies on Amazon Prime Video range from major theatrical releases to streaming exclusives. Many are awards and festival favorites, while still appealing to Amazon’s wide audience. Here are 10 of the best original movies on Amazon Prime Video. Update, 11/19/21: We’ve reviewed our recommendations and are confident these are still the best movies you can watch on Amazon Prime Video. Table of Contents The Big Sick Cold War The Handmaiden Landline Love & Friendship Paterson Selah and the Spades 7500 Suspiria The Vast of Night RELATED: The Best Original TV Series on Amazon Prime Video in 2021 The Big Sick Play Video Comedian and actor Kumail Nanjiani and writer Emily V. Gordon draw on their real-life relationship for the romantic dramedy The Big Sick . Nanjiani plays a fictionalized version of himself, a struggling comedian who starts dating Emily (Zoe Kazan) just before she’s struck by a … [Read more...] about The 10 Best Original Movies on Amazon Prime Video for 2021

Comedic movies can be goofy, clever, tragic, depressing, or uplifting. If you’re looking for something to watch, Prime Video has a little bit of all of that. Here are the 10 best comedy movies streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Table of Contents Tropic Thunder My Man Godfrey Burn After Reading Beavis and Butt-Head Do America The Addams Family The Big Sick Election His Girl Friday Heathers Love & Friendship RELATED: The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video in 2021 Tropic Thunder Play Video Ben Stiller treads a fine line between satire and offensiveness in his showbiz comedy Tropic Thunder . Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, and Brandon T. Jackson play the cast of an action movie who end up stranded in the jungle and terrorized by their megalomaniacal director (Steve Coogan). Stiller uses problematic elements (including keeping Downey’s character in blackface for the entire movie) … [Read more...] about The Best Comedy Movies on Amazon Prime Video in 2021

Steph Matto made $200,000 selling her farts online and ended up in the emergency room fearing she was about to die of a heart attack. Steph Matto, 31, from Connecticut, recently found herself in the emergency room after experiencing shooting pains in her chest. She thought she was having a heart attack or a stroke, and was convinced she was going to die any moment. Concerned doctors performed blood tests and an EKG but later told the 90 Day Fiancé star that the symptoms were actually caused by excess gas from her frequent diet of beans, eggs, and banana protein shakes. The scheme began back in November when Matto received requests from her adult-content site, something called Unfiltrd. For $1,000 a pop, she’d fart in a jar and mail it to you. Even with a 50 percent discount over the holidays, she claims to have cleared $200K. '90 Day Fiancé' star retires from selling farts after heart attack scare https://t.co/upRQokBoy6 pic.twitter.com/7HcZzbJQfP — New York Post … [Read more...] about Nolte: Reality Star Ends Up in Hospital After Selling Farts Online

Audio player loading… Spoilers for Loki season 1 follow. Loki season 2 is on the way – we just don't know when that'll be exactly. The Marvel Studios' TV show is the first of its kind to be renewed for another outing, but there's no official word on when the god of mischief will return to our screens. Still, it's pleasing to see that a second season of Loki is in the offing for Disney Plus . The TV series is arguably the MCU's best small screen production yet (though we imagine WandaVision and Hawkeye will have something to say about that), so it's unsurprising that Loki season 2 is in the works. So what do we know about this Marvel Phase 4 project so far? According to stars Tom Hiddleston and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the show's second season might delve deeper into Loki and Ravonna Renslayer's respective character arcs – a tantalizing prospect, given that both characters are forging different paths on the scale of good and evil. That's not all, … [Read more...] about Loki season 2: everything we know so far