nowthatsfuckedup.com was a controversial website that existed from February 2004 until April 2006, when it was shuttered under Florida obscenity

Obscenity

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 laws. Often known by its initials NTFU, it had an initial focus on user-contributed amateur pornography until it adopted a novel business model whereby U.S. military personnel

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, unable to use their credit card

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s due to the point-of-sale being located in high-risk regions and wary of repercussions from their superiors, could gain access to the site's content in exchange for proof of military employment for free memberships. The first pictures submitted were soldiers posing with tanks and other harmless situations. As word spread of the free admittance, so-called trophy

Trophy

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 photos, or graphic depictions of corpses and other disturbing imagery direct from the kill zones in Iraq

Iraq

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 and Afghanistan

Afghanistan

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 began to be submitted. The site took on an idea of "bodies-for-porn."

After receiving national publicity proprietor Christopher Wilson was arrested on 301 total charges, 300 misdemeanors and 1 felony under Florida obscenity laws. Wilson hired the high profile First Amendment Law Firm of Weston, Garrou, & DeWitt as well as received legal assistance from the American Civil Liberties Union

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 and others, they eventually worked out a plea bargain

Plea bargain

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 with prosecutors. Under the deal Wilson agreed to the closure of his business and not to work on any adult websites for five years, and plead guilty to five misdemeanor

Misdemeanor

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 charges. The website operated for 90 more days, accepting logins from existing subscribers, before being taken over by the Polk County Sheriff.

See also

• First Amendment to the United States Constitution
  First Amendment to the United States Constitution
  The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering...
  
  
• Obscenity Prosecution Task Force
  Obscenity Prosecution Task Force
  The Obscenity Prosecution Task Force was an organization created in 2005 by the United States Department of Justice. The OPTF's job was to investigate and prosecute producers and distributors of hardcore pornography that meets the test for obscenity, as defined by the Supreme Court of the United...
  
  

The original site

• Nowthatsfuckedup.com - was redirected to a page on the Polk County Sheriffs Office website explaining that "The Polk County Sheriff’s Office now maintains this URL to prevent further transmission of obscene material."

Known archives

• Selected photographs from Nowthatsfuckedop.com
• Last top-level crawl at the Wayback Machine from February 9, 2006. (Mostly skeletal; forum posts, and contributed photos do not appear to have been archived on some pages.)
• pdf of book published in Norway 2011, containing material from the original website.