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Man Fined For Viewing Simpsons Porn

Monday, December 8, 2008

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Man Fined For Viewing Simpsons Porn

An Australian man has been fined $2,000 after Simpsons "pornography" was discovered on his home computer. The central issue in the case was whether a cartoon character could depict a real person. Judge Michael Adams decided that it could, and found the man guilty of possessing child pornography.

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Man Jailed For “Spider Pig” Insults

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

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Man Jailed For “Spider Pig” Insults

A UK man has been jailed for breaching the peace by singing the Spider Pig song from The Simpsons Movie at police officers. David Mullen was sentenced to three months for the incident and calling an officer "ginger" in a police van. He claimed he was singing the song because it was the ringtone on his mobile phone.

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The Simpsons Is Banned In Russia

Friday, September 19, 2008

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The Simpsons Is Banned In Russia

Russian television channel 2x2 will bow to state pressure on September 22nd when it removes The Simpsons from Russian television screens for the forseeable future, or maybe even for good.

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Simpsons Pulled Off Air For Swimsuit Models

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

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Simpsons Pulled Off Air For Swimsuit Models

BOOBIES! Offended? You shouldnt be. After all, the above imagery is more wholesome and less offensive than any episode of The Simpsons. At least, that’s the verdict in Venezuela, where Baywatch Hawaii will replace The Simpsons, which is being taken off the air because it may be inappropriate for children. “It had to be taken off,” [...]

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Australian Man Fined For Simpsons Piracy

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

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Australian Man Fined For Simpsons Piracy

A Sydney man who uploaded the first known pirated copy of “The Simpsons Movie” to the Internet after recording it on his cell phone was fined $888 by a magistrate Tuesday for breaching copyright. An international operation tracked the unauthorized copy to the home of Jose Duarte, 21, who was arrested in August. Prosecutor Chuan Ng [...]

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EA Upsets Companies With Simpsons Game

Sunday, October 7, 2007

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EA Upsets Companies With Simpsons Game

EA’s forthcoming The Simpsons game parodies 30 years of videogaming and gaming IPs, but there are games companies that have refused to see the funny side of things. “I was always under the impression that when you do parody, it’s a sign of respect… If we make fun of Grand Theft Auto, we’re not going [...]

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Simpsons Movie Pirated In Australia

Saturday, August 18, 2007

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Simpsons Movie Pirated In Australia

Sydney has the dubious distinction of being the first market in the world where “The Simpsons Movie” was pirated, with distributor 20th Century Fox tracking an illegal Internet copy of the film to a Down Under locale within 72 hours of its Australian release. But in an indication that the industry’s enforcement initiatives are working, [...]

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Conan O’Brien’s Simpsons Snub

Thursday, July 19, 2007

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Conan O’Brien’s Simpsons Snub

Entertainment Weekly’s website EW.com has just posted an exclusive in which late night host Conan O’Brien jokes about being one of just two early Simpsons writers not asked to collaborate on the movie adaptation In Entertainment Weekly for its Simpsons cover story that hits stands this Friday, O’Brien jokingly responds to a comment by current show [...]

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Stolen Homer Simpson Statue Found

Thursday, June 21, 2007

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Stolen Homer Simpson Statue Found

Two college students believed to be over-exuberant fans of The Simpsons stole a life-sized figurine of Homer Simpson from a cinema, but police tracked them down and forced them to return it Thursday. “This case has been solved,” Mazlan Mansor, police chief of Malaysia’s central Petaling Jaya district, told The Associated Press. The fiberglass replica [...]

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Treehouse Of Horror XVII Leaked Online

Friday, October 27, 2006

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Next Sunday’s episode, Treehouse Of Horror XVII, has just joined a short list of Fox shows which have been leaked to the internet, more than a week before it is due to air on North American screens. After both the Season Premiere of Family Guy Season 4 and the Family Guy straight-to-dvd movie were released [...]

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