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12-31-2000, 01:06 AM
Saw this over at Adultwebmaster magazine by YNOT
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Watch Your Links!
The couple who provided links to websites containing child pornography has been found guilty of promoting child porn in federal court. After deliberating for 6 1/2 hours, the federal jury convicted Thomas Reedy on 89 counts of distributing child porn and sexual exploitation of minors. His wife, Janice Reedy, was only convicted on 87 counts. While not directly providing any images themselves, the Reedys were accused of giving subscribers access and passwords to other Internet sites displaying child pornography. Those sites were maintained by foreign webmasters.
The prosecutors hope to put other similar Internet companies on notice. "I hope this verdict might scare other companies into stopping what they're doing," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Terri Moore. The Reedys' lawyer defended on the grounds that his clients should not be responsible for material provided by other webmasters. Now he'll have to make that argument on appeal, and his clients are looking at a long prison term. This case may provide precedent in cases where the government tries to hold webmasters accountable for information found on linked websites. As our firm has warned from the beginning: Watch your links!
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Actual Page it came off http://www.theadultwebmaster.com/legalcorner/update_0012-2.phtml
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Watch Your Links!
The couple who provided links to websites containing child pornography has been found guilty of promoting child porn in federal court. After deliberating for 6 1/2 hours, the federal jury convicted Thomas Reedy on 89 counts of distributing child porn and sexual exploitation of minors. His wife, Janice Reedy, was only convicted on 87 counts. While not directly providing any images themselves, the Reedys were accused of giving subscribers access and passwords to other Internet sites displaying child pornography. Those sites were maintained by foreign webmasters.
The prosecutors hope to put other similar Internet companies on notice. "I hope this verdict might scare other companies into stopping what they're doing," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Terri Moore. The Reedys' lawyer defended on the grounds that his clients should not be responsible for material provided by other webmasters. Now he'll have to make that argument on appeal, and his clients are looking at a long prison term. This case may provide precedent in cases where the government tries to hold webmasters accountable for information found on linked websites. As our firm has warned from the beginning: Watch your links!
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Actual Page it came off http://www.theadultwebmaster.com/legalcorner/update_0012-2.phtml