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Originally posted by stevent37
You seem to be avoiding the pertanint issues I have raised so i will be more specific.
Do any of us really want our sites in a database with oral, anal or gay sex by your name when some state laws specifically forbidit?
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you have lost me here.
Let;s say you run a website that has beastiality pics. Like the list you showed, some states, it's against the law.
sniffy comes to your site, indexes your image, and tags the images as being "adult" or "cp".
no CP was found on your website, just pics of animals and people grooving.
ok, so now what is the problem? if the feds come storming our office and slap the court order down and say, show me all the websites that have these MD5 values of known "obscene" pictures on them. so we plug the MD5 values in, and sure enough, your website come as having 8 of the images. we tell the feds, we don't judge what is obsence, just what is "adult content" (yes that is subjective to some degree), but for whatever reason, they had some law passed that gave them legal grounds to bust "obscene" pics (they tried to pass this law remember Senator McCain, didn't work out).
the FBI looks up your website and confirms that yes indeed those pics are there.
are you blaming us for having the database? so your issue is that because we have the data, we could be used against the webmaster?
the scenario is a possible one, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do what we are doing, it means YOU shouldn't be doing what you are doing. If you are fearful of prosecution, which you should if you are dealing in contraband, then sniffy has nothing to do with it.
a tip from some concerned web surfer could have pointed the feds to your website.
now to FreeAdultContent's point... that what if you did have those bad pics on your side a month ago, then decided that you saw the err in your ways and took them down, and then feds stormed us, etc... your URL comes up, and the timestamp shows last month was when the images were found.
the Feds check out your website, and find nothing there. now they will probablby then storm your house and servers. let's say they find nothing, so they maybe, maybe not, give you an apology and you feel totally violated.
so you don't blame the feds for their actions, you would blame sniffy because it was the "rat"????
if i have not understood your point, please direct me to it.
-dj