The accused was sentenced to 5 years of hard labor already for possession of 13 grams of marijuana, but getting caught for hacking a billboard in Moscow has only added to his time. He said he was a bored tradesman who was just trying to have some fun with computers.

All together, Blinnikov, 41, is going to spend six years behind bars, as he is currently serving another sentence for selling drugs in his home town.

He was already under investigation for selling marijuana when he decided to share a video from his personal collection with the world by downloading it on an unprotected computer he had gained access to through the Internet.

His defense seems to have some major holes (pun not intended). He argued that he did not know his explicit video would be widely distributed, but at the same time he claims to have had control enough to engineer a very specific time for it to be displayed.

Igor Blinnikov, pictured above, uploaded a 15-minute long pornographic video on the server of an advertising company one night last year and claims he did it “just for fun” and didn’t expected it to be broadcasted on billboards on the capital’s Garden Ring.

“I made it at night deliberately, at midday, so children wouldn’t see it. You should never corrupt children!” he told LifeNews.

Interesting defense. He will save the children by posting pornographic videos on billboards only at certain times of night.

Russian hacks seem to be in the news lately for defacement using sexual imagery. It reminds me of the artists who were charged recently by Russian federal agencies with anti-discrimination laws.

The Federal Security Service (FSB), in a darkly sarcastic twist of logic, assigned themselves status as a group and then claimed they were being discriminated against by protest art. The FSB, who have replaced the KGB, were faced with a 65 metre tall phallic image called “Dick captured by KGB” on the Liteyny Bridge, which spans the Neva in St. Petersburg. When it was raised it faced FSB Headquarters.