In Austria, the "Federal Act Against Obscene Publications and for the Protection of Youth Morally Endangered" was passed in 1990 to regulate pornography in Austria.
Under these regulations, the minimum age for buying hardcore pornography is 16.
Publication of pornography or material depicting bestiality is illegal.
[2] In 2013, there have been an increasing number of reports of people accessing child pornography through the internet, according to Stopline—an internet authority set up by Internet Service Providers Austria (ISPA) to reduce illegal activity online.
At a press conference in Vienna, director Barbara Schlossbauer said that 98% of cases were related to child pornography, but only a third actually occurred in Austria.