Shock site

There have been several shock galleries that have launched and shut down. Rotten.com hosted murder videos and images of deceased people, During their operation, the owners of Rotten.com launched several new sites, one of which was Shockumentary.com in 2006. Shockumentary.com was created to sell mondo films like Traces of Death (1993). Ogrish.com's reputation rested on its publication of gore media from terrorists and war. Marek pleaded guilty and was given a six-month conditional sentence for his role in a case where he was accused of corrupting public morals in Alberta, Canada. Some shock galleries, however, established more specific niches. In the early 2000s, the site Necrobabes hosted images of women pretending to be dead, while the sites Cannibal Café and Gourmet tailored themselves to would-be cannibals. The latter sites gained attention in 2003 when Armin Meiwes, an aspiring cannibal, used the sites to connect with Jürgen Brandes, a man who desired to be eaten. There have also been several individual videos that received viral attention. Goatse was one of the earliest and best-known shock sites, featuring an image of a man stretching his anus with his hands. The site featured a page devoted to fan-submitted artwork and tributes to the site. In 2012, it was resurrected as an e-mail service. In 2008, the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs posted the graphic murder video 3 Guys 1 Hammer. In 2013, a student at Florida State University hacked the wireless network of his campus and redirected all traffic to Meatspin. In 2015, consternation followed when a family restaurant played the website in front of young children. An advertising industry website documenting this incident referred to it as creating Swedish MeatSpin. The site first went live on March 10, 2005. John-Michael Bond of The Daily Dot stated that to an extent, "casual homophobia" of the 2000s helped popularize Meatspin. == Legality ==

Currently, there is no federal or state legislation in the United States that outlaws possessing or viewing videos or images that depict the death of a human being. The owners of Rotten.com were successfully sued by families for hosting photos of dead people and videos of their deaths on the site. In the United Kingdom, Parliament passed the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, which included a section outlawing extreme pornography (that which is intended to sexually arouse viewers that threatens a person's life, is likely to seriously harm a person's anus, breasts, or genitals, or involves a human corpse or an animal). This has resulted in shock sites, as well as American pornographers including Max Hardcore and Extreme Associates, being convicted of obscenity in the United Kingdom. The video was shared on Facebook and uploaded to YouTube shortly after. Footage of the mass murder was hosted on 4chan, 8chan, LiveLeak, Voat, Zero Hedge, and KiwiFarms. Rather than the Australian government trying to ban this specific instance of murder video, internet service providers in Australia chose to place temporary blocks on any sites that hosted the footage until all the footage was believed to be removed. == Ethics ==

Several ethical concerns have been raised on the topic of shock sites and murder videos. One concern is that the popularity of shock sites will encourage an increase in violent murders, which can result in more extreme and violent videos that will likely generate more views on shock sites. can cause or trigger post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and cause other emotional distress. == Media ==

As more people upload and view murder videos on shock sites, some believe that this practice is being mirrored in the horror film genre. The presence of CCTV in Saw and the online torture auctions in Hostel: Part II raise questions on the nefarious use of monitoring systems and the widespread access to videos of beheadings by Al-Qaeda, executions in American prisons, and other real depictions of violence and murder on the internet. ==See also==