Scorpions Virgin Killer album cover leads to Wikipedia ban
Six of the UK’s largest ISPs have been blocking access to a Wikipedia entry on The Scorpions’ album Virgin Killer. Why? Because the cover – which features a naked prepubescent girl – is on a child-pornography blacklist compiled by the Internet Watch Foundation.
But the story doesn’t end there – because of the way ISPs are blocking access to the site, millions of British internet users have been blocked from editing ANY Wikipedia pages. It’s to do with proxy servers, or something.
But we still blame The Scorpions.
Tags: scorpions, virgin killer, wikipedia
December 8th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
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December 8th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
[...] die Webmaster frühzeitig auf den möglichen Rechtsverstoß hin. Im Gegensatz zu den Bloggern von Music Ally würde ich nicht die Scorpions beschuldigen. Das Album-Cover ist anstößig und umstritten. Das [...]
December 8th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
[...] blames The Scorpions – and so do I. I had the misfortune to see the album cover this morning, and it really is very [...]
December 8th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
The image is child pornography, L1 or L2, it is indecent in the United Kingdom and illegal as per PoCA and SOA 2003. There is no artistic exception, the legislation retroactive. The photo is obviously illegal, and no innocent possession in the UK either.
December 8th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
cant have one rule for one and not the other – this is sick and needs to be removed asap!
December 8th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
( PoCA and SOA 2003. There is no artistic exception ?? )
get a life , lets ban girls altogether after all they are the beginning of the problem.
and then we can ban all those porno paintings in the museums and galleries and ban all the porno statues and carvings…
This worlds is making me sick I’M GONNA KILL MYSELF..
OH SHIT thats banned too …… FUCK..
December 9th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Somebody once told me that ..”Morals are a question of geography.”.
Attempting to plain-vanilla the Internet, especially against something arguably accepted for decades as art is a ignorant denial of our global history and diversity, of our collective humanity. Who presumes to have that right?
Yes…what about the art of the ages? What modern “internet” wisdom is so-suddenly omnipotent over our history? God-dammed ignorant hypocrisy and foolish prejudice strikes against all of us, again.
The Internet Watch Foundation, in ignorantly and insanely out-of-context posting its “potentially illegal indecent image” about a multi-decade –old album cover, has lost ALL credibility with me.
Mark Shinnick
December 9th, 2008 at 10:48 am
I would never have heard of this if not for the media fuss. Obviously now by attempting to look at the Wiki entry, and then by seeing the image referenced by another media story, I guess I’m on some sort of nonce watchlist now….
December 9th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
actually, the image isn’t child pornography, since it is not pornography, but a nude image. i don’t know how that is in the UK, but in a lot of country’s it’s not illegal to have or to make nude images of children. for example, if i have a girl that gets my baby, i do not go to jail for making a photograph of the baby, when it’s nude. i have nude pictures of myself when i was a kid, and so do my friends. it’s not illegal, it’s not pornography. get a life.
December 10th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Hi,
anyone that thinks that’s pornography really should get out more. Yes it’s a tasteless picture, but not porn. Nothing pornographic about pictures of nude children, indeed my parents took nude piccies of me as a kid, which i’ve seen, nothing pornographic about them.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
It is a picture of a nude girl.
There have been many other album covers like this in the past!
Get over it.
The image was used for 2 reasons in my opinion – to highlight the title of the album and to provoke controversy which will lead to more sales. It worked.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Here is an example of what I mean – in 1980 aged 15yo Annabella Lwin posed nude for Bow Wow Wow’s album cover – see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabella_Lwin
December 19th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
[...] Scorpions Virgin Killer album cover leads to Wikipedia banSix of the UK’s largest ISPs have been blocking access to a Wikipedia entry on The Scorpions’ album Virgin Killer. Why? Because the cover – which features a naked prepubescent girl – is on a child-pornography blacklist compiled by the . [...]
December 26th, 2008 at 4:11 am
Nudity is NOT pornography, regardless of age. Sexual content is required. Just because someone, somewhere, sometime now or in the future might be sexually aroused by a picture is NOT cause to ban or censor it. Just for the record, this ‘poor, abused innocent’ is now over forty. Wonder what she thinks, not that it matters. “The Law is the Law.” (Judge Dread) If we keep going, no depiction of anyone under 18 will be allowed in any media (print, photo or video). What a not-so-brave new world.
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August 24th, 2009 at 6:47 am
GONA BE SICK OF IT, i have nude pictures of myself from younger age made by my parents, and now i have some pictures from my kids made on holiday. Is that wrong!!!! THERE ARE SOME SICK POEPLE THAT MAKE THE LAW.