Pleasurepays

look at it backwards... say you find the most VILE site you have ever seen in your life full of 5 year olds being molested by adults. videos.. pics etc. 100's of 1000's.

lets say that they are all from some village outside Moscow. the guy managing the site is doing it on dial up from an apartment in there that he rents under an assumed name.

Ok... you see it. Now what?

What do you do?

Call the FBI?

I would love for the ASACP to jump in here and explain the exact process.. for shutting the site down. I have discussed this very thing in the past with people from the computer crimes department in Moscow though. All they need is an IP and they can find the provider, the phone number and the exact location and go arrest him in a matter of minutes.

Do you think its that simple?

Instead, this process involves local, state and federal law enforcement, Customs, The Postal Service, INTERPOL (multiple departments and multiple jurisdictions), The Ministry of Internal Affairs in Russia (multiple departments), the FSB (fka KGB) (multiple departments) as well as countless courts and judges.

So... while all these people are fucking off back and forth.. some guy is still raping kids and selling the images and videos. He could be doing it for months... even more than a year. But he's not dumb... he's moving too. He's changing hosts, locations etc.

Calling the FBI doesn't just mean "sites gone, kids are safe" - it means the problem now enters into a long, impossible and beaurocratic clusterfuck at the direct expense of children who are being abused.

THE problem here is that registrars and hosting companies are the only ones that can take IMMEDIATE action and a hosting company doesn't change anything when they shut of the server. its just a 2-3 day inconvienence.

This whole incident should be seen as a wake up call on many levels. Instead, all the fucking idiots in this biz think they should just move their domains to another registrar who have the exact same rights over your domain and shareholders to answer to. Move your domains from DirectNIC. Thats your solution. That will make everything better???? WOW. Thats your right... but pull your head out of your ass and stop thinking they are the problem. DirectNIC didn't create impossible 2257 laws. DirectNIC isn't on TV before the Senate and Congress talking about the end of porn online. DirectNIC didn't give the DOJ and FBI a mandate to shut you down.

Most of the people in this biz should be in Jail if you are from the US right now. Almost no one has even bothered to comply with laws that have been on the books from day 1, much less those that followed. Credit card processors don't like you. The government doesn't like you. Local communities don't like you. The law is already slanted against you in more ways than one and all the boundaries are so fucking gray that if you don't wake up in a cold sweat at night worrying about the law, you just don't understand the risks. You are already risking 5 years in jail and stiff fines and are in a situation where the federal government wants to make an example of YOU (if you are from the US) ... but like most, i can guess you are not even close to being legal.



HERE's WHAT I SUGGEST

1) Hate on DirectNIC if that makes you feel better

2) Start cleaning up your own house, start making others do the same and stop forcing the federal government and others into the position of being forced to do it for you.