Amateur Action BBS... Tom was one of the guy's names I believe, not sure how much time he did, but it was actually a postal inspector that brought the charges up against them... I thought it was because Amateur Action BBS sent him some video tapes, but downloading porn was part of it too now that I think of it... yah, content not suitable to community standards in Tenn, yet perfectly fine in California... I think it was a ridiculous case if you ask me, but it was argued that Tom should have known the laws in the location he was sending stuff too either via the board or via the postal service....
Rusty and Edie's was a different case, although they came to mind as well... they were charged with copywrite infringement by Playboy among others... Play boy is just as bad a Disney for protecting their IP... Yah, those of you that know me well shouldn't be surprised that I know the porn BBS's name and some info about it :-) Mike B Michael P. Blanchard Senior Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 32 Coslin Drive Southboro, MA 01772 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 3:23 PM To: funsec Subject: Re: [funsec] outlaw on the net in the UK Date sent: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:36:42 -0600 From: RandallM <[email protected]> > wonder how close the laws with US are ( I want to be a good citizen) Since you guys don't have a legal system (you have at least *53* legal systems), you're probably at greater risk. I know the US Justice Department used to have a project that tracked all the crimes in the US, according to all the laws. Some years back they gave up (the total then stood at 29,000), stating that the legal situation in the US was too complex for anyone to be completely certain as to whether a particular act was a crime or not. (I also recall the case [roughly 20 years back?] where someone in Tennesee took offence at an "adult" BBS operating in California. Dismayed that it was apparently legal in California, they set up a situation where they dialed into the BBS, set up a download, brought in a 10-year old kid and told him to hit "enter" [then rushed him out before he saw anything], and extradited the California couple who ran the BBS to Tennesee to stand trial for corrupting the morals of a minor. Put at least one of them in jail.) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. - Plato, The Republic victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
