News Has Ofcom Overruled ATVOD rules?

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http://www.xbiz.com/news/183537

RE: Urban Chick website

Ofcom noted that the BDSM site had been constructed using a blogging template "and therefore could only be navigated in a traditional web-like manner."

"This rudimentary, non-TV like navigation was demonstrated by the members? homepage, which consisted of 20 chronologically presented posts, each with an attached photo gallery or individually embedded video," Ofcom ruled. "Consequently, Ofcom considered that a user viewing material on the [Urban Chick] service would be unlikely to consider themselves to be watching a program service competing with linear TV program services.

"Ofcom considered that the content available on the [Urban Chick] service was of particularly niche appeal, made for and consumed by a very limited audience," Ofcom ruled. "This, together with the small user base and turnover made it less likely, in Ofcom?s view, to be a service that was in competition with linear TV program services, and users were unlikely to have regarded the audiovisual material in the service to be regulated as TV under the directive."

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Now I am confused.

Is Ofcom now saying if your site hosts vids, but is on a blog, this is ok?

Or are they saying if you have only a few members its ok?

From this, it seems Ofcom are saying that if you have vids in your members area, then make it a blog as this way your site is not TV like!!!!!

Yes, they seem to be making the rules up as they go along.
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Has Ofcom Overruled ATVOD rules? – http://www.bansmut.com/has-ofcom-ove...s-ofcom-atvod/

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more info:

http://obscenitylawyer.blogspot.co.u...ator-into.html

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/me...s-9672463.html

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Ofcom’s judgement is available in full here: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/bin...vices/ucsc.pdf

A post about it: http://www.backlash-uk.org.uk/domina...to-submission/