The criminal answer for cyber pornography in international documents and Computer Crimes Act approved on 2010

Pornography as one of the examples of computer crimes that covers the contents which mostly are produced, published, kept and dealt on the basis of erotic and sexual arousal. With the advent of the Internet, meanwhile, pornography protrude from a purely traditional way that are mainly published as books, magazines and painting, there also an efficient tool was created for sexual offenders. Pornography extension in cyberspace as a secure place for perpetrators and its consequences led to the adoptation of documents at global and regional level. In these documents by providing a definition of pornography and its multiple instances it was attempted that in order of combating effectively with this phenomenon, there be comprehensive and uniform standards to be introduced to the countries of the world.in the present article which has been edited in a descriptive-analytic way by considering international documents and by the aim of comparing these documents with Iran's parliament approved the law on cyber crimes we have reached to this conclusion that although the Iranian legislator has tried to made steps against pornography but the ambiguity and incomprehensibility of some phrases, Imposing disproportionate punishments for instances of pornography, set the akin punishment for the perpetrators regardless of the age of the victim and the ignoring the role of parents and protectors of children in the commission of the crime as an aggravating circumstances, has caused the law not to be able to deal and cope effectively with pornography in cyberspace.