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Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell
This type of activity exists at dozens of processors and I would make an educated guess that it more profoundly exists elsewhere. Let's (you, me, everyone) publicly discuss organizing data collection, where information needs to be sent and how information needs to be formatted (presented) so that we can effect change. Thoughts?
Brad
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That is a good idea. However, you have to count on keeping ccbill out of the loop as they do not want any information regarding such content sent to anyone who works at their company. This is what they sent me today via email:
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While we acknowledge your work to help us identify instances of illegal content, distributing the links or content itself is illegal.
While we appreciate the notice of the existence of the content, please do not distribute the content or URLs to that content to our company or individuals in our company via any method, including ICQ, except as outlined by federal and international guidelines.
The reporting of such content is governed by federal law - and distribution, storage and propagation is illegal.
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I replied asking for the contact of the law enforcement agent/agency they deal with so that we can handle such issues quickly. They have yet to reply. To be honest, I'm not expecting a reply. Which would be unfortunate, as that means we have to get the FBI involved, which could get very messy for all parties. That said, I will give them a day or two to respond and hope they come through with someone I should deal with who is already dealing with them directly.
I know Epoch does not play games such as this. And I know Segpay pulled processing for some file hosts, but I am unsure if they pull it for all of them. But yes, if there is a way to organize this a little better and deal with it all via the proper channels, so long as they are productive channels, I am all for it.