From: phillips@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca (Leigh Phillips)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.allsysop
Subject: Re: SYSOP BUSTED FOR PORNO IN OHIO!
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:34:29 MST
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In article <1992Jul23.090859.23@antioc.antioch.edu>, mbaya@antioc.antioch.edu
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>Subject: Help, please forward this message
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>From: bx953@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Cohen)
>Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 14:09:03 GMT
>Reply-To: bx953@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Cohen)
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>I have no idea where this message should be posted, I only know that it
>**should** be posted.  I'm posting here only because I know this board 
>is widely read and someone should be able to get this message 
>to the right place.
>
>In today's paper (Cleveland Plain Dealer) it was reported that a 22-year
>old male got arrested for distributing pornography, and possibly for
>contributing to the delinquency of a minor.  His "crime" was running a
>bulletin board out of his home ... the cops found out that minors were able
>to get ahold of pornographic gif files.  The arrestee had apparently set
>things up so that "adult" files were supposed to be restricted, but either
>the files weren't restricted after all, or someone else had "unrestricted"
>them.  The paper reports that this type of arrest is one of the first of
>its kind in the state.  The cops used a "cooperative" 15 year old -- after
>the kid accessed the adult files, the cops grabbed the alleged criminal.
>
>If any Ohio law enforcement types are reading this, I am an Ohio attorney,
>and I think this sucks.
>
>David
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I have herd threats in canada about copywrite infrigement of GIF and other
scanned materials being electronically distributed via Bulletin Board Systems
and it has cause quite a scare for some of the system operators up here. This
just adds to the beaurocracy (SP) of those hobbyists that want to set up a BBS
system... now they have to worry about legalities and whether or not their
users are the age they say they are.... I think society should be open minded
enough that if a child below the age of majority gains access to pornographics
materials it is by his own innitiative... We as sysops can NOT take
responsibility for the initiatives of others no matter what age race or
religion, we merely make information availiable... I would like to see a BBS
that had access to credit reports, for they can be considered public
information... Now wouldn't that create a fuss!!!

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