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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: a.b.p.e. distribution (was, Re: Does USENET condone CHILD PORNOGRAPHY?)
- Message-ID: <BxtDBt.35t@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Keywords: Pedophelia Child Pornography Porn Immoral Illegal
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <josh.721329561@mowgli> <1992Nov16.030921.5510@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1992Nov16.070140.25233@clarinet.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:52:41 GMT
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- brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
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- [...]
- >I guess it is fortunate with this attitude that the penalties for getting
- >caught are real. Event Horizons BBS, which sold subscriptions and had
- >lots of GIFs scanned from Playboy was sued by Playboy. The report was they
- >settled out of court for half a million dollars.
- [...]
-
- Here are my understanding of the details of the EH case. Feel free to
- correct me if I'm mistaken:
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- EH allegely sold access to scans of Playboy pictures for a great profit.
- EH allegely scanned many of the images itself.
- EH was asked by Playboy to stop.
- EH refused.
- EH was sued.
- EH settled.
-
- - Carl
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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