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Man makes sex video of lover!
In the first such case in Germany, a man was sent to jail for spitefully releasing onto the internet a sex video of his former girlfriend along with her phone number.
In the first such case in Germany, a man was sent to jail for spitefully releasing onto the internet a sex video of his former girlfriend along with her phone number.
He was sentenced to 18 months' prison and ordered to pay her $42,000 (35,000 euros) in damages.
Convicting him of criminal insult and trafficking in pornography, Judge Mirko Schulte said: "She was pasted up on an electronic hoarding and fed to voyeurs."
The film of the couple was available on free porn sites round the globe.
"It's now technically impossible to delete these files off the internet," said the judge, noting that such a crime had never come before the courts earlier.
The man, 40, denied the charge, but contradicted himself in evidence and the files were found on his computer.
The court in the central city of Marburg heard that his love turned to hatred when the couple parted. He put his girlfriend's name, address and phone number on the film and posted that on online porn-swapping sites.
The girlfriend, 43, subsequently received phone calls from strange men.
