Times like these prompt me to point out my opinion on the difference between owning something and having it in your possession.

As fucking creepy as Loli hentai is, it's not illegal and seeing the precedent this may set is almost as disturbing to me as the porn itself :(

Fuck them. I'm keeping it. It's been illegal in Canada for a hell of a lot longer lol.

This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

I tried the game, and while it didn't succeed in turning me on very much, it REALLY isn't that bad. Certainly not bad enough to say it is on par with possessing child pornography. That's just insane.

having tits of that size and shape in uncanny valley

Something else has just occurred to me: Does anyone else give a damn about anything other than the disturbing precedent? (Granted, the precedent is pretty disturbing...) It's such a bad game that I don't think that anyone would care that it's illegal to own it, if it weren't for that precedent.

There would be a riot if it led to the banning of a more popular game, though... and my mind is dirty enough to imagine using World of Warcraft to make something like pornography... with gnomes... Um, nevermind...

So if I draw a picture of a girl naked and say she's 17, I can go to prison?

I better alert all my weeaboo friends

Fuck it, I'm moving to New Zealand.

Oh for fucks sakes.

The game came out in 2006, it suddenly pops up in amazon and people start raising a stink about it, hell Rapelay is relatively tame considering the kinds of games that come out in Japan, I really fucking the knee-jerk reactions of the U.S.A sometimes.

And simply owning being considering a federal offense sets a terrible precedence and opens up a door of litigation that scare the crap out of me.

I agree with TheStripe here. It's easy to throw in "Also he owned this game" in much the same way school shooters played video games. The fact that he owned actual child porn is disgusting and he deserves prosecution.

@ZeroTolo

lol, I was definitely joking. There are some very obvious differences between my comment and a game like rapelay, as well as actual child pornography. And, despite my choice of avatars, I have nothing to worry about.

I think the biggest deal is right here:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/manga-porn/

They convicted this guy who had NO REAL CHILD PORN - JUST LOLI MANGA.

I mean seriously, you can be arrested FOR DRAWINGS!?

I'm not into lolicon, and I think child porn is sick and disgusting as it can ruin a innocent child's life.

But seriously... ARRESTED FOR DRAWINGS! C'mon people... whatever your personal feelings are on the subject matter, as free men and women you have to see that the potential ramifications of this.

@Paviel: It exists. probably lord of the rings hobbit hentai likely exists.

I don't understand how this is considered an offense. Then again, I don't exactly have a clue on how the laws today work, but regardless, this is dumb.

I don't get where the 4th District is coming from with this. The US Supreme Court has already held invalid a federal statute making "simulated" child porn unconstitutional as being overbroad. I'm on my way out the door so I'm not going to bother comparing both opinions, but here's the Supreme Court case:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-795.ZS.html

As an aside, I don't make a point of keeping apprised of the latest developments in kiddie porn laws; I'm an attorney. I'll take a look at the opinions later; I'm interested in first amendment issues, so I'll probably end up reading it sooner or later anyway.

First off, Fox News is the ONLY news network that successfully went to court to protect their right to lie. Fox News is News in name only. Officially they are classified as News Entertainment. It allows them the blatantly present falsehoods as the truth without having to, you know... tell the truth. Ironically enough, they've called out Daily Show and Cobert Report many times for being New Entertainment.

Second, this is indeed a disturbing trend. Why? Well, you know the thoery that making porn illegal will drop the number of sexual assault instances in any given community? Opposite is true. The theory that arming citizenry would be a better crime deterant than not arming people? Once again, opposite is true. What you have is a group of sick individuals who, at the moment, are perfectly happy with the lolicon. They get that fantasy, nut, wipe off their chest, and go to work. But take that lolicon away and suddenly you don't have that fantasy release anymore. Logic dictates they'll seek out the real deal. It may be an unhealthy fantasy life but whatever. If letting these people jerk it to FICTIONAL DRAWINGS keeps them from kidnapping and raping an 8 year old girl, FUCK! I'd draw them the stuff myself.

i am not a redneck, i do not watch fox news but we need some voice on the "other side" and fox news is that voice. just look at the rest of the news outlets that will not voice an opposition of our presidents agenda. i am a democrat too. i don't watch fox news exclusively but scan cnn, abc, nbc, bbc and fox news just so i don't get the one sided views these media outlets have and so i can dissect what the basic truths that are in each story. i don't agree that this game should ever have been made.

ronsauce, go fuck yourself you avatarless bitch.

Its a sign of the times. Us smart folk in the west, are losing our freedom gradually in the name of overprotectionism. Creating a perfect utopia for the people is a noble goal, but at what cost? What's the point in being free at all, if you can't express yourself, in your place and privacy, without hurting anyone?

They'll say, we are doing this in the name of the children, and therefore it is just and unquestionable, and if you question it you hate children etc. This is a very religious like siege mentality. Now its starting to breach into though crime territory, where anyone is fair game, even when they are perfectly innocently enjoying, media that may be questionable to everyday tastes, but again isn't hurting anyone at all.

In todays world, males are usually hung out to dry, as guilty even before trial. It should be interesting when they pick up a female fan, for her yaoi manga and hentai games, because they enjoy that stuff just as much as the male fan do normal hentai. I wonder if a female would end up in jail for the same thing? Would this make her, worth spending tax payers money on to lock up.

I'm with Sheppy. Such media provides an outlet for those that need that outlet, as we aren't all the same. What if they are potentially stamping on something that could stop a lot of people progressing to something worse, involving real kids? Yeah, dammit, give these people mountains of fake drawn shit and there's less of a problem. I think those in power also need to educate themselves about this media properly, before they condemn it, problem is, while those who use it, or have knowledge of it, can take it like it is, and see the ridiculously warped fun side of it, more conservative minds are like... WTF!!

If any yanks own Rapeplay, it will be in dodgy pirate form, anyway. Would it really be worth chasing them for this? If its an illegal download, it shouldn't, but who knows. Would be interesting to see if the games industry would defend such a game in court, though.

Providing sick entertainment for degenerates is not a solution to anything.

Heh heh. "Whorley".

Unless they are forcing underage children to draw/model/code this shit against their will, then there are no children are being harmed by this. It is not "child pornography" and is not (or should not be) illegal.

The fact that it's sick filth (though, again, it shouldn't be banned either) has (or should have) absolutely no bearing on this at all.

I'm not into rape anyway

Heh, I remember a few years ago, you could see footage of this game on GameTrailers (of course, you can't anymore).

Why arrest people for a "crime" that doesn't harm anyone? There's no victim here. There's no victim if you kill someone in a video game. What, am I going to jail for squashing all those virtual Goombas after all these years for genocide??