On the Internet, the difficulty of applying court sanction makes circulation of such photographs much less risky. Additionally, the lack of legal restriction makes it commonplace for digitally-altered photos giving the appearance of a particular celebrity nude, where the celebrity's face was taken from a published non-pornographic photo and edited in to existing pornographic imagery. Untold numbers of such photographs circulate through Usenet, and fly-by-night? commercial operators, often in countries beyond the reach of U.S. courts (the celebrities concerned are more often than not from the U.S.) also offer such photos for commercial gain.
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