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Six years in jail for distributing nude photos of girlfriend online

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Six years in jail for distributing nude photos of girlfriend online

Former "adrenalinka" Yana was the most recent Bulgarian celebrity to appear in amateur bedroom movies distributed online. She accused her former partner of making the movies available online.
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Up to six years in prison could be the sentence, imposed by new amendments to the Penal Code, for distributing nude video or photography online without the consent of those depicted, Bulgarian-language daily Monitor said on February 12 2010.

According to the daily, the amendments came after a recent spate of home-porn material of Bulgarian television and pop-folk stars had made its way online.

The most recent star to see her bedroom activities distributed online was former "adrenalinka" Yana, once dancer in the Gospodari na Efira television show. Yana said her former partner had posted the clip after she had accused him of abusing her, and of being bisexual and taking part in gay sex activities.

Other victims included pop-folk singer Dessislava, best known for her song Men Want It All, who claimed home-porn movies that appeared online had been downloaded from her mobile phone without her consent, and pop-folk star Galena, who first blamed her former lover but later withdrew the accusation saying he had no reason to do such a thing, the daily said.

The amendments have been drafted by Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee and are expected to be voted on in Parliament in coming weeks, Telegraph said.

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Anonymous hungirls.hu Mon, Nov 01 2010 11:29 CET

I have seen such good pictures and videos on hungirls .hu

Anonymous Brian Fri, Jul 16 2010 02:28 CET

Great article!!! I saw another site with similar themed gratuitous or graphic nudity detailing the same thing in other movies, books, apps, etc... (www.graphicnudity.biz) its amazing how many times nudity crops up in main stream media!

Anonymous Cosmos Sun, Mar 14 2010 21:18 CET

The lady has got what she wanted loads of interest.

Anonymous good Sun, Mar 14 2010 17:39 CET

Its a good law. Bulgarian women need more protection.

That said, local context is important if just nudity is concerned: 50% of Black Sea beach goers would be fined and jailed in the US.

Anonymous Valeri Sat, Mar 13 2010 22:17 CET

And then, he threaten to "sort me out" ;)))

How much bail, or time would work for you for that illigal act Moutaineer?
Would you like to do time, or would you prefer to pay off and walk?

Do you wanna do it yourself or should we sit down and figure out who can pay for what firepower and who's got the baddest associates?

How do you want to handle it, because I am already shaking in my boots...

So you see [...]

Read the full comment you are the problem and I am ashamed of you...

Anonymous Valeri Sat, Mar 13 2010 21:01 CET

Десен,
it's more than that.
We are cynical about everything, probably with good reason too.
The worse of course is our mental divorce from our society and country. The sense that " IT has done something to ME"...
When they say that they are "ashamed to beBulgarian" they somehow don't see it as if they are saying that they are ashamed of who they are - exactly for that reason - the mental divorce and lack of personal responsibility for the state of affairs.

You can trace that [...]

Read the full comment to decades of lack of
political choices (democracy), which
breeds estrangement like this.

Note how it's " the last 20 years when things went wrong? As of before things were normal?

This is the worse residue of the commie system that, I am afraid, will be " the gift that keeps on giving"...
A mentality that would compel you to dump how "ashamed" you are of who you are, just because there is a new law for privacy protection, yet there was a corrupt official with reduced bail 2 days a go! Where is the connection?

Bail is based on flight risk - can you imagine an American or a German to say something like that in this context?

Pent up emotions with little logic and structure - symptomatic of lost people in transition.

The country doesn't pay me enough and otheres are the problem...

Преглед на профил Десен Sat, Mar 13 2010 03:53 CET

Bulgarians are so cynical as it comes to natural things like private life.
To them it is bunch o whining of sissies.

Anonymous Valeri Fri, Mar 12 2010 23:43 CET

Agree Lisa,
just a little irony..

Anonymous Lisa Fri, Mar 12 2010 22:59 CET

Well, my point was largely that this situation is not unique only to BG. There is nothing inherently bad about the country or it's inhabitants because these womens' privacy was invaded. What is positive of course, is that they can pursue a more serious legal recourse than before.

Anonymous Valeri Fri, Mar 12 2010 22:41 CET

Lisa:

"If you do not consent to being broadcast without your clothes, then this is a problem. Doesn't really matter which country it occurs in."

Of course it does. Everything bad that happens in BG happens ONLY in BG and it wouldn't happen, if it wasn't BG - don't you know that? This is what our damaged post-commie mentality tells us.

This here's actually good news for a change - somebody did something to some one and may actually have to pay the price. Instead of appreciating the [...]

Read the full comment steps forward, however small they are, you can count on the average Bulgarian to find something nasty to say about their country (themselves) to the first foreigner that'd listen.

Anonymous Valeri Fri, Mar 12 2010 22:29 CET

Mountaineer,
"oh so publish a pair of knockers and you get nicked for 6.
rob half the country on the otherhand, be institutionally corrupt, nick 11 million from the welfare budget, and get a 50K bail, subsequently reduced to 5K and then let free."
What is it that would make you less ashamed of who you are? If people in BG are allowed to completely disregard other's privacy, until there are no corrupt officials left? Help me here with the logic.

Anonymous*******Fri, Mar 12 2010 21:52 CET

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Anonymous Lisa Fri, Mar 12 2010 21:30 CET

Consent has everything to do with it. There are plenty of people who want to take their clothes off in front of a camera and consent to doing so, this is not a problem. If you do not consent to being broadcast without your clothes, then this is a problem. Doesn't really matter which country it occurs in.

Anonymous Valeri Fri, Mar 12 2010 20:28 CET

You should not be ashamed of who you are.
Not saying that you should be "proud" because that's a silly notion, but ashamed.
You don't have to be a nationalist, to have basic understanding for what your country is going through.

BG has many problems and no, it has been robbed for far longer than 20 years - back in 1947 EVERYTHING was "robbed" by the, in many cases, the parents of the today's robbers - everything - enterprises. land, homes, down to cars, pianos, bicycles and such and was called "nationalization" [...]

Read the full comment so yeah our problems didn't start in 1990.

"... next time you come from the US i'd be happy to sort you out."

And you think this isn't part of the problem and among the reasons you happen to be "ashamed to be Bulgarian"?

My observation has been that every person who spits on BG and says that they are ashamed, usually acts exactly the way they are "ashamed of" in the others.

It's like a Sofia taxi driver who insults every other driver as "кой ти даде книжка бее?" или "овцооо" and yet he himself totally disregards the traffic rules.
That's what we are, and you are I are probably not the exception that we like to think we are.

Anonymous KL. Fri, Mar 12 2010 20:20 CET

Pushing this issue to one side for a moment, why do some of you knock the Bulgarians so. I'm British and travel to Bulgaria up to 5 times a year and find them pleasant, hard working (when they can get work)friendly and helpful, yes some buildings can do with a lick of paint or repaired but come on, they have been systematicly robbed by everybody thats walked over them in recent years, they deserve some help and a break. just take a close look at this s**t hole (UK) we call home and whats happening here. They should certernly remove [...]

Read the full comment the Great out on Great Briton for there is nothing Great about it here. Given half a chance I know where i would rather be, but i cant at the moment. It seems to me the people that knock it have never been there and cant even find it on a map.

Anonymous Mat Fri, Mar 12 2010 19:50 CET

Please post a link to this video. Please. Please. Please.

Anonymous*******Fri, Mar 12 2010 19:31 CET

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AnonymousUndertheCoversFri, Mar 12 2010 19:30 CET

This comment has been removed by the moderator because it contained off-topic content

Anonymous Valeri Fri, Mar 12 2010 19:22 CET

"have i mentioned that i am ashamed to be Bulgarian?"

You have and as I said, we'd consider you Zanzibarian from now on... garbage...



Преглед на профил n51w03 Fri, Mar 12 2010 19:15 CET

It's not about nudity Cosmos, it's about consent. Without consent then it's akin to rape.

Anonymous Mountaineer Fri, Mar 12 2010 19:01 CET

consent?

no one asked this country to be systematically robbed for 20 odd years, but they did it anyway and not only they got away with it, they are still pulling the strings. consent has got nothing to do with it. its about a messep up country from top to bottom

Anonymous Lisa Fri, Mar 12 2010 18:51 CET

In reading the article, the problem is not nudity, but consent. Sounds as though these women did not give their consent, which is an entirely different thing altogether.

Anonymous Mountaineer Fri, Mar 12 2010 18:06 CET

oh so publish a pair of knockers and you get nicked for 6.

rob half the country on the otherhand, be institutionally corrupt, nick 11 million from the welfare budget, and get a 50K bail, subsequently reduced to 5K and then let free.

have i mentioned that i am ashamed to be Bulgarian?

Anonymous Cosmos Fri, Mar 12 2010 17:17 CET

Six years for nudity thats a joke what is wrong in seeing a nice looking woman in the nude.


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