Philippines - Solons bill imposes fine on owners of sex videos

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Manila, Philippines - Finally a solution to the proliferation of bootleg x-rated amateur videos. Apallingly, there have been a reported increase of video-taped gang rape cases involving teenagers--posted on online video hosting sites or sold in the black market. A party-list lawmaker has filed a bill seeking to penalize people who knowingly possess video recordings of private acts, including, but not limited to, sexual acts. Buhay Rep. Irwin Tiengs House Bill 4315, that also covers those who replay such clips or share these with others, imposes on violators a penalty of up to six years imprisonment and a fine that could reach P500,000. Lately, a number of obscene sexual acts or other pornographic materials have been exhibited and shown over the Internet and even shared [through] other electronic gadgets like mobile phones, much to the humiliation of the victims, Tieng said in the bills explanatory note.

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Solons bill imposes fine on owners of sex videos

Rise in cases of videotaped private acts cited
By Christian V. Esguerra Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 03:21:00 07/10/2008 Filed Under: Local authorities

MANILA, Philippines ? Voyeurs, be warned. Possession of video recordings showing ?private acts? could get you into trouble. A party-list lawmaker has filed a bill seeking to penalize people who ?knowingly possess? video recordings of ?private acts, including, but not limited to, sexual acts.? Buhay Rep. Irwin Tieng?s House Bill 4315, that also covers those who replay such clips or share these with others, imposes on violators a penalty of up to six years imprisonment and a fine that could reach P500,000. ?Lately, a number of obscene sexual acts or other pornographic materials have been exhibited and shown over the Internet and even shared [through] other electronic gadgets like mobile phones, much to the humiliation of the victims,? Tieng said in the bill?s explanatory note. ?Evil-spirited individuals continue to debase the image of the offended party by recording the private acts of lovers or partners, usually without the consent of either party,? he added. Deplorable act ?This is the worst thing you can do to a woman,? Tieng said in a statement. ?Not only do you destroy her by your deplorable physical act, you also strip her of all remaining honor, self-respect, social standing, and hope by spreading the inhuman act in the Internet or mobile phones for all the world to see.? On Wednesday, a 17-year-old nursing student from Cavite province, an alleged victim of a gang rape ? a an incident which was videotaped by her attackers through a cell phone camera ? made this appeal to anyone who gets hold of the video: ?Don?t view it, don?t share it, please.? Ordeal In a press conference in Quezon City Wednesday, the victim narrated her ordeal which began on Feb. 14, when a friend and her boyfriend invited her to a house in Dasmarias, Cavite. The house was reportedly owned by a man who was looking for a girlfriend. The victim said in her four-page complaint that when they got to the house, they were joined by three other men, allegedly college students like her. After a few drinks, the victim said she lost consciousness and found herself in another room where she said she was raped repeatedly. All the while, one of the suspects was videotaping the scene. Out of fear and shame, the victim said she kept the incident to herself until a friend told her two months later that she had seen a video clip of the incident on a schoolmate?s cell phone. The clip soon circulated among students at the victim?s school. Film pirates later got hold of it, adding it to the growing number of ?sex scandal? videos in the country. ?It?s tantamount to double rape,? Rep. Liza Maza of Gabriela said in Wednesday?s media briefing. The video clip, however, enabled the victim to identify the suspects.

Spread of sex video may boost cybercrime bill

By Alexander Villafania INQUIRER.net First Posted 08:44:00 05/26/2009 Filed Under: Hacking, Congress, Technology (general), Internet, Laws

MANILA, Philippines ? The controversial sex video scandal of celebrity and doctor Hayden Kho and actress Katrina Halili may be a trigger to the quick passage of the proposed cybercrime bill, a government official said. Last week, members of the congressional committee on information and communications technology sought to include new provisions against taking, uploading, and distribution of sex videos in the pending cybercrime bill. Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) chairman Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua III said in an interview that new proposals are coming from other legislators against sex videos. He said these proposals could be included as new provisions in the bill, which has yet to pass Congress. ?This is just the Congress version. We?re still hoping that the Senate will be ready for their version of the cybercrime bill,? Roxas-Chua added. The government executive said the Department of Justice is working with the Senate on their version of the cybercrime bill. ?[DOJ State Prosecutor Geronimo] Sy is the one helping the Senate on that,? Roxas-Chua added. Roxas-Chua said Congress and Senate should pass the cybercrime bill before the coming elections to strengthen the country?s defense against new forms of high tech criminality. The cybercrime bill has been proposed many times in Congress and Senate even before the creation of the CICT in 2004. It is supposed to strengthen cybercrime provisions included in Republic Act 8792 or the e-Commerce Act of 2000. Different agencies have been pushing the cybercrime bill, including the CICT and the defunct Task Force for the Security of Critical Infrastructure and the Government Computer Security Response Team. The cybercrime bill follows guidelines set in the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, which resulted in the first international treaty on cybercrime.