Paul F. "Max Hardcore" Little Indicted

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Paul F. "Max Hardcore" Little Indicted

Postby Jimmy H. » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:57 pm

TRIGGER WARNING


I saw the news in the "Second Carnival of Radical Feminists" at Ann Bartow's (http:// feministlawprofs.law.sc. edu/?p=1864). I personally dislike The Smoking Gun, but for once it's not about pornstituted womens' mug shots. They published a copy of the 7-page indictment:
http://www. thesmokinggun. com/archive/years/2007/0531071max1.html

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Feds Nail Hardcore Producer

Indictment seeks forfeiture of sites like pissedonpornstars.com


MAY 31--If federal prosecutors get their way, Uncle Sam will one day own the web site pissedonpornstars.com. That's because Paul Little--described as a "Hollywood director and producer" in a Department of Justice press release--has been indicted on federal obscenity counts. The 50-year-old Little, who uses the handle "Max Hardcore," was named in a ten-count indictment charging him with transporting obscene matter via mail and computer. A copy of the indictment, which was filed in Tampa, Florida and unsealed yesterday, can be found below. As described in the DOJ release, Little (pictured right) is a "nationally-known director, producer, and star of films featuring acts such as anal penetration, urination, insertion of an entire hand into a vagina or anus, vomiting, and severe violence" towards female performers. The government seeks forfeiture of Little's web sites, maxhardcore.com, catalinaxx.com, and pissedonpornstars.com, and several films referred to in the indictment. (7 pages)

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Postby Jimmy H. » Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:23 am

Update: more exactly some related news. The Smoking Gun's tone and spin are as obnoxious as usual (starting with the sexist and dismissive "warning"):

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Uncle Sam In Gutter

Warning: Obscenity case not suitable for women, children, Utahans


JUNE 19--In what may be the filthiest criminal complaint ever filed, federal prosecutors have charged a pair of Ohio businessmen with selling obscene movies via their web site. According to a complaint unsealed last Thursday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, the FBI last year launched an undercover probe of Movies by Mail, a Cleveland business owned by brothers Sami and Michael Harb. After placing an online order, Agent Martin Schwarz received a package containing "pornographic DVDs and fourteen condoms." As Schwarz noted in the complaint, he is a Utah resident "familiar with the community standards" of the ultra-conservative state. As such, the agent concluded that a trio of DVDs he reviewed were obscene. "None of the three films has a plot line. The films consist entirely of scenes of hard core sexual acts being performed by multiple men and women," Schwarz reported. Then the G-man provided a graphic recap of each film, two of which featured Paul Little (a/k/a Max Hardcore), who himself was named last month in a ten-count federal obscenity indictment. Be warned, as described by Schwarz, the goings on in titles like "Extreme Associates: Cocktails 5" are not for the squeamish (though the X-rated action is the daily province of smut busters assigned to the FBI's National Adult Obscenity Initiative Task Force). (14 pages)
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The complaint reproduced by the SG contains the description of the acts of torture perpetrated in the films, which is triggering (same sadism and misogynistic humiliation you find in all accounts of "gonzo porn", which according to the SG are "suitable" for non-Utahan men), as is the cover picture reproduced in the article (with blurred breasts and genitals). Paul Little is at the centre each time behaving like the Stetson hat-wearing white wannabe slavemaster he is. I notice a similarity with Dennis Hof, the Nevada pimp mainstreamed by HBO.

Link: thesmokinggun. com/archive/years/2007/0619071utah1.html
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Postby Andrew » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:59 pm

Good enough for 'em. Well, actually, too good for them.
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updates on paul little

Postby bluecoat28 » Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:10 pm

http://www2.tbo .com/content/2008/oct/04/me-filmmaker-receives-46-month-sentence/
Filmmaker Receives 46-Month Sentence
By ELAINE SILVESTRINI
The Tampa Tribune
Published: October 4, 2008

TAMPA - His pornographic persona, Max Hardcore, is all swagger and sadism - forcing women in his movies to do things that can't be described in a family newspaper.

But in federal court Friday, as he faced a federal prison sentence, Paul F. Little trembled and begged a woman for mercy.

"It just seems a very high price to pay, I think," Little told U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew, "and I ask you to understand how much I've suffered."

Little and his attorneys argued that his conviction in June for 10 counts of distributing obscene materials over the Internet and through the mail had devastated his business and left him near ruin. That, they said, should be punishment enough.

But Bucklew sentenced Little to three years and 10 months in federal prison.

She was unimpressed with Little's apologies, noting he had given interviews in which he ridiculed the charges against him. "He was flip throughout the entire trial," she said. "He wasn't apologetic, as far as I can tell, until this morning."

Little Said They Were 'Euro' Editions

Little also said the videos in question, which were labeled as "Euro" editions, were intended for distribution in the permissive European market, not the United States. He said he told his distributor not to sell them in the United States.

That, the judge said, is "questionable." She said she believed prosecutors when they said that label was a marketing technique to let buyers know the content was more extreme. "You're either incredibly naive or you're just not being truthful," she told Little.

Bucklew also ordered Little, 50, to pay a $7,500 fine on his own behalf and another $7,500 on behalf of his company, Max World Entertainment. She leveled $5,000 in special assessments and ordered Little to serve three years of probation after he is released from prison. The company was placed on probation for five years.

The judge granted a defense request that Little be allowed to remain free until the bureau of prisons designates a prison.

DVDs Were Bought In Sting

According to evidence in the trial, federal investigators in January 2006 purchased an online membership to the Max Hardcore Web site and downloaded five promotional video clips. Then, in March 2007, an undercover postal inspector bought five DVDs from the Web site, having them delivered to a post office box in Tampa.

The videos featured scenes of vomiting and urination, showing women being forced to ingest various bodily fluids.

Federal prosecutor Edward McAndrew, a lawyer with the Justice Department, said the videos were "some of the most extreme material available on the Internet."

"This case is not about the conduct," McAndrew said. "It's not about consenting adults. It's about commercial distribution. ... He made a choice that his material would be more extreme than others. What he creates gives mainstream pornography a bad name."

McAndrew said Little was undeterred by his conviction and had sold two of the videos in question after he was convicted.

In seeking a more lenient sentence, one of Little's attorneys argued the videos were not sadomasochistic. "Urine and vomit, our argument is, isn't sadistic or masochistic," James Benjamin said.

"What about humiliation?" the judge asked.

That, Benjamin replied, isn't in the legal definition of sadomasochistic.

"Clearly, there seemed to be pain," Bucklew said.

That was acting, Benjamin said. "The person that was involved in the conduct sat in court with a smile on her face and wrote your honor a letter saying, 'Judge, this was a beautiful part of my life.'"

"I don't even think this is a close call," the judge said. The videos portrayed "sadistic conduct. ...This is clearly degrading, clearly humiliating and intended to be so."

Defense attorney Jeffrey Douglas said the conviction has reverberated throughout the adult entertainment industry and marks the first time prosecutors successfully have gone after a pornography producer while granting immunity to the distributor.

Until the videos were ruled by a jury to be obscene, Douglas said, Little had "no way of knowing the activity he was engaged in was criminal."

It was unprecedented, Benjamin said, "to consider a purveyor of dirty movies in the arena of criminal conduct."

"This came out of nowhere," Little said.
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Re: Paul F. "Max Hardcore" Little Indicted

Postby SaltyC » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:17 pm

According to the Channel four documentary Hardcore, pimps in the "mainstream" porn industry brought their more defiant "actresses" to Little to be broken (raped) and asphyxiated so that they would agree to do more humiliating scenes. As the pimp is quoted in the movie "After being with him, I'm hoping she'll agree to do the scenes she previously refused to."
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Re: Paul F. "Max Hardcore" Little Indicted

Postby MaggieH » Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:16 am

Ugh, Max Hardcore is such a sick fuck. Torturer! :angryfire:

He should get imprisoned for life...
"The assumption that "most women are innately heterosexual'' stands as a theoretical and political stumbling block for many women. It remains a tenable assumption, partly because lesbian existence has been written out of history or catalogued under disease;. . . partly because to acknowledge that for women heterosexuality may not be a "preference" at all but something that has had to be imposed, managed, organized, propagandized and maintained by force is an immense step to take if you consider yourself freely and "innately" heterosexual. Yet the failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness. . ."
-- Adrienne Rich, in Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence: http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” ~ Alice Walker
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Re: Paul F. "Max Hardcore" Little Indicted

Postby delphyne » Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:05 am

Yeah, torture - on screen, for men to masturbate to.

Nearly four years inside though - woo hoo!
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Re: Paul F. "Max Hardcore" Little Indicted

Postby oneangrygirl » Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:40 am

:blob3: :wav:
I guess some slavery feels like freedom.
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