Adult video screening body raided

[Oracle]

This is a big news (for JAV industry) which happening recently.

ビデ倫を強制捜査、ＡＶヘア解禁に「審査不十分」

8月23日15時1分配信 産経新聞

　アダルトＤＶＤの画像修正が不十分だったとして、警視庁保安課は２３日午前、わいせつ物頒布の疑いで、ビ デオ製作会社数社を、同幇助（ほうじょ）の疑いで、日本ビデオ倫理協会（東京都中央区）の家宅捜索を始めた 。通称「ビデ倫」と呼ばれる同協会はメーカーや販売会社などでつくる自主審査機関で、警察による強制捜査は 初めて。
　捜索対象は都内のビデオ製作会社などで、販売店も含めると、約２０カ所に上る見通し。
　ビデ倫は昨年６月にヘアを解禁するなど、審査基準を緩和した。警視庁は審査が甘くなったことで、わいせつ 物に当たる動画が流通したとして、同幇助容疑での強制捜査に踏み切った。
　保安課は今後、関係者を事情聴取するとともに押収した資料を分析し、審査方法や基準などを詳 しく調べる。
　調べでは、製作会社は適切にアダルト動画のモザイク処理しないまま、販売した疑い。ビデ倫は自主審査機関 として審査していながら、わいせつ物に当たる動画の流通を許可した疑いがもたれている。
　ビデ倫は「捜査中で立て込んでおり、コメントできない」としている。
　ビデ倫は昭和４７年に設立された会員制の任意団体で、自主規制と表現の自由の問題を協議するため、第三者 機関として学識経験者による評議会を設けている。

This news was released on 23/8. Here's the summary of the news in english:

Originally Posted by Mainichi

Adult video screening body raided for overlooking obscene porn

An adult video screening body (Nihon Ethics of Video Association) was raided by police over allegations that it helped several Tokyo companies sell overly obscene videos and DVDs by overlooking the images, investigators said.

This is the first time that law enforcers have searched the body, the Nihon Ethics of Video Association, according to Tokyo police. The association has declined to comment on the raid.

The video production companies are accused of releasing DVDs and videos containing obscene images after they were screened by the association, the Metropolitan Police Department said.

The association allegedly helped the firms sell obscene DVDs and videos by failing to screen them properly, according to investigators. (Mainichi)

Nihon Ethics of Video Association (日本ビデオ倫理協会). Recognized this Kanji name? Yup. This is the association's name which always appeared on the beginning of certain AV movies which you downloaded everyday. Their job is screening the movie content before the videos are being distributed to the whole Japan country.

A lot of consequences have occured due to this incident. I will post the follow-up news in next few posts in this thread.

[Oracle]

On 24/8, Amazon.co.jp announced that they decided to remove all the catalogs of JAV& remosaic JAV products from their website.

[Oracle]

The police want to investigate 2 particular JAVs which produced by h.m.p. In order to cooperate with the police on their investigation, h.m.p. closed their official website temporarily.

Although the site was closed, h.m.p. stated that their business will be still running as usual. Their new JAVs will be released as usual.

Here's their website, which the page been replaced by this announcement.

弊社に対する警視庁の捜査状況のご報告

　皆様におかれましては、ますますのご盛栄のこととお喜び申し上げます。
　平素は格別のお引き立てを賜り、心から厚く御礼申し上げます。

　さて、報道等でご存知の方も多いと思いますが、日本ビデオ倫理協会に対し、8月23日に警視庁の捜査が入 りました。
それに伴い当社においても捜査を受けました。捜査の対象は昨年発売された商品下記2作品に関し てでした。
弊社は日本ビデオ倫理協会の会員であり、作品は全て日本ビデオ倫理協会の審査を受けておりますので違法性は 無いと固く信じております。

■対象作品
2006年10月21日発売　『萌え～　イジられるの大好き！』乙音奈々（HODV-20388）
2006年10月21日発売　『巨乳若奥様　ねっとり誘惑エッチ』竹内あい（HODV-20390）

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どうぞ今後ともh.m.pを宜しくお願いいたします。


平成19年8月25日
ｈ.ｍ.ｐ株式会社　　　
代表取締役社長　五郎川弘之

And here's that 2 h.m.p. JAVs which are being investigated by the police currently.

[Oracle]

Local News




You can see the h.m.p. building in that clip.

Apparently, the police raided NEVA & h.m.p. for allowing too much to be seen in JAVs, especially those remosaic AVs and "Hyper Mosaic" theme JAVs....


So.....will this mean there would be no more thin mosaic JAVs for us in future?

[Connoisseur]

That's interesting. I thought it was the goverment who runs the censorship department, not a thrid party organisation.

[Riot1]

Removing thin mosaics kills the joy of watching AVs ^^

[thearts]

i guess japanese are strict about the mosaic law .

Originally Posted by mainichi

Cops see through porn watchdog's fuzzy stance on private patchwork

Japan's adult movie fans are shaking in their boots after police raided the organization that blanks out the dirty bits to make sure stick flicks aren't deemed obscene, according to Shukan Bunshun (9/13).

Most mainstream adult movies in Japan are screened by the Nihon Ethics of Video Association (NEVA), which is responsible for placing the digital mosaic over genitals in Japanese porn.

But the late August raid on NEVA was conducted because police accuse it of distributing indecent materials by allowing the digital mosaics to become so transparent as to be effectively useless.

"Police raided two adult movie DVD companies and NEVA because it said the digital mosaic over the genitals had not been applied properly and the ethics organization allowed that to happen too easily," a reporter for a national daily tells Shukan Bunshun. "Police questioned NEVA officials for days about the incident."

Adult movie companies joined together in 1981 to form NEVA to independently monitor blue movies so that they would not raise the ire of authorities. The August raid was the first ever to target the ethics body. Though there are few people who enjoy the digital mosaics NEVA is responsible for adding, there are even less who think it has been so lenient to have gone too far in displaying actors' private parts.

"There is a genre called 'Indies,' which are movies made by companies that don't belong to NEVA. The mosaic in Indies movies is almost non-existent, yet NEVA got raided because the cops thought the digital alteration wasn't opaque enough," an adult video industry source says. "What I think was the real motivation of the police action was to send a message to the entire industry, where the trend has been to make the mosaic more transparent."

Once watching videos became common in Japan in the '80s, "Indies" video makers had a gripe with NEVA, saying it was too strict in its application of the mosaic. In 1996, they set up their own self-monitoring organization called the Soft Contents Association. The new organization led to a decline in NEVA's power.

"For 'Indies' makers, the rule of thumb is basically 'Anything Goes.' And 'Indies' videos are more popular in the market than those that go through NEVA," the adult video industry source tells Shukan Bunshun. "NEVA have responded to members' calls for a little lenience and since 2004 has allowed them to use a more transparent kind of digital mosaic that shows more, while last year saw NEVA permit its members to display pubic hair and anuses. But the police raid on NEVA really should serve as a warning to everybody in the industry."

NEVA is extremely apologetic over the incident.

"We truly regret what happened," a NEVA spokesman says. "We will continue to watch what happens from now on and deal with the situation in a careful, strict manner."

"Indies" representatives at the Contents Soft Association, meanwhile, are remaining tight-lipped.

"We don't want to say a word about this case," an association spokesman tells Shukan Bunshun. (By Ryann Connell)

September 11, 2007

[CocaColaCole]

No more thin mosaic to see anymore in the future... JAV's fan will be happy if the law enforcers didn't bother about it...They don't full naked woman