The latest fillip to the phenomenon that has made the police hyperactive has
been caused by an actress called Mallika Sherawat, who is also trying to make
an impression in the West by starring in a Jackie Chan movie and making a bold
appearance at the Cannes film festival.
Some technology driven person who could be sitting anywhere in the world
morphed Sherawat's picture onto a porn video, uploaded it into a cell phone and
in a blink the MMS was everywhere.
The upset actress, who was shooting somewhere abroad, called everyone she knew,
including the press, her agents, officials, ministers, film producers and
actors, which only heightened interest in the video.
The morphed body has turned out to be that of a Mexican girl, while nobody can
trace the originator.
Beyond questions of law and morality, the mobile service providers are getting
richer. In India, MMS messages are estimated to be less than 1% of the total
number of text messages sent.
But on days when there is talk of a porn clip, on the sly, for real or morphed,
traffic increases dramatically, and so do revenues.
