This situation isn't a lot different than the one from that "Tickled" documentary years back.
They're manipulating people into making fetish videos for them and having them sign agreements so that compensation for it and a waiver will discourage them from speaking about the actual crimes that allegedly took place. In this case, the crime would be coercion.
Unless anybody here is a lawyer who is familiar with laws regarding distribution of videos shot for scientific research, nobody can say whether or not selling the videos violates any laws. We can only guess.
My uneducated opinion on this is that since they've volunteered to be test subjects and not patients, maybe the "doctors" can't violate a Hippocratic oath by sharing videos of their tests online, for profit or not.
That's literally what TLC did with videos of surgery patients in the past. It probably wouldn't matter if you sold the videos for entertainment purposes on tv or for download on the internet.
It's in poor taste, but it's their property.
If someone has you sign a waiver to be recorded, you should probably not trust your right to privacy to be respected any more than you trust the person.
But you can't legally pressure someone to sign a contract to keep quiet, especially not by physically torturing them, like the OP says was the case of this woman.
Biddlybong, do you know this young woman because you heard her story and just contacted her, or do you know her personally? And did you set up an account to bring this to people's attention on this forum? If so, why? If this woman signed an agreement while being tortured, it's void. Just tell her to go the police. If she signed an agreement willfully, I don't know what to say.
If you just wanted people to stop supporting the store by making the point that the videos are made illegally, I think that your story will hopefully deter their past customers from continuing to buy their videos.
But you'd really be better off going to a news station or website to tell this story to. From the looks of things, unless you provide proof that the victim said this, most people here aren't going to do much for you but pick your story apart. Either way, this young woman is the only one who has the power to take those accusations to the police.
It's time to do more than call that store shady, it's time to get some help to press charges.
I agree with you!
If someone is forced to sign a document or forced to participate in something, then of course it is a crime. Of course.
But this is not the case. Biddlybong wrote that: "
they tell the girls they will use unspecified techniques such as bugs, TICKLING and sounds, etc to cause reactions of desperation for the purposes of scientific research".
I have read it 3 times, he really wrote "
they tell the girls"!!! This means the girl knew she would be "tortured" (maybe not sure if with tickling, or bugs or sounds).
He (not me) said that the girl was informed that they would try to scare her with BUGS (!) and many other things, including TICKLING...
And the girl decided to participate... Then Biddlybong told us she signed the model release form, without any coercion, that authorizes the distribution of the video (and it's obvious, if not, the different distributors will never accept the video). Did she sign before or after?? It doesn't matter, because in any case she signed without any coercion.
Then he told us that AFTER that (after the model release form was signed!) these 2 girls (the participant and the producer) signed another contract... What this 2nd contract contains, we don't know and why the participant signed it? It's a mystery! He said that is "
to keep her quiet", then why, after some days, the participant signs a new document "to stay quiet"?
But in any case, it is not really important in my uneducated opinion, because the fact is that these 2 girls meet AGAIN to sign another document, again without any coercion...
What Biddlybong also repeated is that this company does not tell the participants that these videos will be distributed into the fetish market. It seems that this company only told them that these videos would be sold worldwide (model release form), without specifying the "fetish market". Also, they don't tell exactly which techniques will be used to cause desperation, they "only" tell them they will be tortured
(maybe with bugs!
And in my inexperienced opinion, this may be immoral, but not a crime.
I have seen the video of "May didn't know she will be tickled" and it is evident that May had no idea that she would be tickled... but also in the first minutes of the video they told her in front of the camera that she would be "distressed and tormented with unspecified painful but not dangerous techniques", and the girl accepted.
In any case, considering that Biddlybong said he knew the participant, he can just ask her for those 2 documents she has signed and post them here (perhaps covering the names of the 2 girls)... it's simple!
PD and yes Iggy pop, these girls don't seem malnourished, perhaps "a little reckless", but not extremely poor...