Wandering over iplayer I found a strange documentary by a Ms S Dooley on the internet wreckage of BBC3 about Molka… which is the South Korean word for hidden camera porn… Apparently since South Korea outlawed internet pornography there’s been an outbreak of hidden cameras everywhere there. Some of which live stream. Indeed, some cameras are hidden in public toilets which gives a whole new meaning to the term live streaming.
There were some terrible stories about (mostly women) doing themselves in as a result of being spied on by spy cameras. A molka sexual offender was interviewed about his habit that had landed him down the local police station. Creepily when the self-confessed virgin was asked if he’d like to have sex with a woman he said he hadn’t seen the point if he was happy with his molka. One had to wonder if this would have all reached this level without the prohibition on porn. Although why people want to film other people on the toilet is a strange question that cannot be answered other than it’s a power trip…
A teenage group giving a street performance was asked how
they felt about the people filming them.
They didn’t seem to have a problem with people uploading their dancing
to the internet but they did have a problem with people who filmed them and
then kept the photos for personal use.
One wonders how they’d have survived in the world before anyone could
upload anything…? One also wondered why they were so happy to give all their performance rights away to Youtube for free but you'll forgive me if I don't call in the person from Equity...
Surely whatever people do with film filmed under freedom of panorama is pretty much their own affair? Although as anyone who has ever done any photography will tell you much photography is by its nature voyeuristic. Unless, of course, you ask absolutely everyone if they want to be photographed in advance or like only photograph buildings....
Some of the world’s most interested photos were taken when people did not know they were observed. Or so Paparazzo told Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita… Okay, he didn’t but according to Fellini he chose Paparazzo’s name because it sounded like “a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging."
And suddenly I had my yearly flashback to MCing the Laughing Horse Kingston gig where a new act did a six minute set slagging off his ex then pulled out a huge pile of A4 pictures of her naked then threw them around the room loudly proclaiming her to be a “Whore!” …fortunately for him it wasn’t actually a criminal offence back then. After that the atmosphere was a tad awkward…
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