June 16, 2009 | 8 Comments

Abby Winters Offices Raided By The Cops

On Monday, the Abby Winters offices were raided by the cops, and company founder Garion Hall arrested for making (apparently illegal) porn. See? The Australian government really does hate naked people. (news.com.au)

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  • Anonymous

    Having read the article, I’d say it’s not only the Australian government who’re hating naked people. The police action seems to be instigated by a right-winged (Fox News subsidiary) newspaper.

  • Anonymous

    This is depressing and stupid. Not only does abbywinters.com portray women in a much more positive and wholesome light than the mainstream porn aesthetic, it is also one of porn’s more ethical corporate citizens, donating to charities, including over AUS$75,000 in relief for the February wildfires.

    All this, and it generates an estimated $10 annually in revenue, most of it from outside Australia.

    None of this matters to the Herald Sun, a Rupert Murdoch-owned right-wing rag that will happily toss out the baby with the bathwater to pander to its conservative readers.

    If anyone forms a legal defense fund for Hall and any of his employees, I hope that Fleshbot will announce it so that I can contribute.

  • Anonymous

    “the police e-crime squad began sifting through mountains of electronic material seized during the raids” Jesus, if they wanted to look at Abby Winters porn so much, they should have just bought a membership like everyone else.

  • Nintenboy01

    So what crime did they commit, if any? Underage models or something?

  • Anonymous

    Man, they’re al most as bad as Mississippi.

  • MalzyWheels

    Gee, the world is plagued by terrorism, regimes who beat down their citizenry, famine, pestilence, dishonesty, inhumanity, and war: What can we do to stop all this?

    I know…Let’s bust people for having sex!

    Why, it’s….it’s BRILLIANT!!!

  • Anonymous

    Watching or owning porn is not illegal in Australia, is is illegal to sell X rated material in all but two territories. That said, it is sold just about everywhere.

    The AW thing is about a couple of disgruntled employees and a newspaper “crusader”.

  • Ms Naughty

    Further legal clarification: It is legal to watch, own and buy porn in Australia but if you want to buy DVDs you need to buy them from the 2 territories because selling X rated movies is illegal in the states. Legal to buy, not legal to sell. This is a law from 1984 (the year, not the Orwellian book. Although it might as well be).

    Each state has “classification” i.e. censorship laws regarding the sale of adult material. Hidden in those laws is a rule stating you cannot create an “objectionable film.”

    Everyone’s been either not known about or been ignoring this until now. The police would probably have done nothing except that the paper went on a witch hunt. A while ago it printed a nasty attack on AW.

    There is no constitutional guarantee of free speech in Australia.