source:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08...web_crackdown/

The Government has said it will announce plans to strengthen laws applicable to violent internet pornography in the next few weeks. Such material is generally illegal to publish but legal to view in the UK under the current regime.
Extreme adult websites – those depicting bestiality, necrophilia, rape or torture – can fall foul of the Obscene Publications Act in the UK. This Act dates from 1959 and makes it an offence to publish any article whose effect likely to "deprave and corrupt" those who see it.
Extreme adult websites – those depicting bestiality, necrophilia, rape or torture – can fall foul of the Obscene Publications Act in the UK. This Act dates from 1959 and makes it an offence to publish any article whose effect likely to "deprave and corrupt" those who see it.
The Act can be used to force ISPs in the UK to remove such websites; but obscenity laws differ in other countries, where extreme adult sites are often hosted And while publishing such material is illegal in the UK, visiting it or possessing such images is not.
Violent porn is being brought under similar guidelines to those for paedaphillic images.

Might affect some businesses that discover porn on the network. I've certainly been involved in an investigation of a staff member looking at violent porn.

I'd always believed that viewing/downloading this sort of porn was illegal anyway. It was news to me that it wasn't.