Students claim sex video was stolen and posted on Internet

A student and her boyfriend in Singapore featured in a homemade sex video that has been circulating on the Internet are unlikely to face charges, but the person who posted the video is in trouble with the law.

The Nanyang Polytechnic student filed a police report after her cellphone, which had been used to film a 10-minute video showing herself and a man engaging in sexual acts, went missing and the video was posted on line, The Straits Times said.

The 21-year-old man told the newspaper he was “very angry and disappointed with what has happened.”

The couple became friends through the online gaming server Netoverlords.net two years ago.

Nanyang Polytechnic is helping the student by providing counselling, but said it would not pursue any legal action. The video clip was not mass-mailed to its staff or students and the acts depicted had not taken place on the school grounds.

Lawyers said the person who posted the video is likely to be in trouble. It is illegal to distribute, show, import, or possess any obscene video recording, whether it is made on a conventional camera or a mobile phone, they said.

It is not against the law for consenting adults to film themselves having sex for private viewing.

“I just hope everything will end soon,” the man in the video was quoted as saying.