2016 News File
4-minute scandal video
devours Bohol netizens
by Dave S. Albarado
Boholano netizens have expressed shock and aghast over a new Bohol-made sex scandal video that has gone viral for days - and it has become a virtual "talk of the town," albeit in secret whispers.
According to sources, the video, now a hot topic on thousands of Facebook posts and comments, involved two grown-up students, who are allegedly enrolled in separate tertiary schools in Bohol.
Nonetheless, netizens are confounded on how the video spread online and some expressed anger about the video getting some attention as it went viral.
The latest viral video shows how people can get instant popularity or notoriety with the help of technology.
Even if this is not the first time social media helped in spreading a supposedly private affair, people still are interested in lurid stuff, which has created a stir enough to cause some conversations.
Interest generated by netizens over the video caused it to be a trending topic. Some folks have claimed to have seen the video.
However, despite repeated attempts, The Bohol Tribune reporters were unable to find a copy of the subject video.
Sources told The Bohol Tribune that the woman involved in the video scandal was reportedly "set up" by the guy with whom she shared intimate moments and his "hideous" friends, who appeared to be the ones taking the 4-minute visual fireworks using a smartphone.
The first few seconds of the video, according to highly-placed Bohol Tribune sources, were pitch dark, then the "main event" immediately emerged, first on a peephole-like frame, then on full screen mode.
Almost a decade ago, Boholanos here and abroad were also gripped by a sex video involving a former Bohol radio personality and his young girlfriend.
The video eventually put an end to the "storied broadcast career" of the once famous radio commentator.
ILLEGAL STUFF
Exhibiting and spreading videos obtained via voyeurism is illegal in the Philippines.
The Anti-Video and Video Voyeurism Act or Republic Act 9995 was passed by Congress specifically to prevent the publication and distribution of recorded videos of people doing sexual act or depicting the male or female genitalia or the female breast among others without the consent of the persons in the material.
Elegal.ph, a Filipino legal blog site, listed the acts illegal under RA 9995 to include: "unconsented taking of photo or video of a person or group of persons engaged in a sexual act or similar activity or capturing an image of the private area of a person, under circumstances in which the said person has a reasonable expectation of privacy."
The blog said it is also illegal to copy or to reproduce such photo or video recording. It is also illegal to sell the same. The publication or broadcast of the material in print or broadcast media, or the showing of the same through VCD/DVD, the Internet, cellular phones, and other similar means without the written consent of the persons featured.
Mere showing of the video in question using one's mobile phone constitutes violation of the law, elegal.ph said.
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