Amber alert used against porn?

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From: [email protected] Date: Fri, May 2, 2003, 10:06am To: Subject: Your site, topless.xxx.com, at web1000.com
Dear Web1000 Customer:
As you probably are aware, President Bush recently signed the "Amber Alert" bill. Although the bill mostly addressed issues of child abduction, there is a section as follows:
(a) Whoever knowingly uses a misleading domain name with the intent to deceive a person into viewing obscenity on the Internet shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.
(b) Whoever knowingly uses a misleading domain name with the intent to deceive a minor into viewing material that is harmful to minors on the Internet shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 4 years, or both.
(c) For the purposes of this section, a domain name that includes a word or words to indicate the sexual content of the site, such as `sex´ or `porn´, is not misleading.
Up until now, we have allowed webmasters to create a wide range of sites, including those involving nudity, across our range of domain names. However, in light of this new statute, we are now prohibiting the display of any nudity on any of the following top level domain names:
allfeminism.com
attorney-site.com
bestfamilysite.com
bestmusicpages.com
candyfrom.us
cartoonhit.com
cat-on-line.com
cpa-site.com
docspages.com
dogcountries.com
dognations.com
dog-on-line.com
drspages.com
edogden.com
foronlinegames.com
greatcookery.com
greatrecipepages.com
jesussave.us
mycatshow.com
mydogshow.com
mylawsite.net
onlinepulpit.com
petitionthegovernment.com
politicalemergency.com
power-emergency.com
prayingfor.us
realisticpolitics.com
schoolreference.com
songsfrom.us
television-series.com
If you have a domain name that includes one of the foregoing domains (for example, mysite.bestfamilysite.com), you must verify that there is no nudity whatsoever on your site.
Because this change reduces the pool of names available for sites including nudity, we are balancing this change by also setting our system to recognize each of the following sexually- or nudity-oriented domain names as always permitting legal nudity:
adultnations.com
alladultfemale.com
alladultmale.com
allbisexual.com
allbreast.com
allmanpages.com
allmendirect.com
allsexpages.com
allwomanweb.com
bedclip.com
chokesondick.com
dampgirl.com
dampgirls.com
deepestfetish.com
drenchedface.com
drenchedlips.com
eroticountry.com
freeadultparty.com
gayadultxxx.com
gaytaboo.com
japannudes.net
labialand.com
myhardman.com
sexheroes.com
smutstars.com
soakinglips.com
taboocountry.com
totallyboning.us
totallyfucking.us
vaginasisters.com
xxx.com
xxxnations.com
If you want to register a new domain name, please visit http://www.web1000.com/
In addition, please review our acceptable use policy. Any site in violation of this policy (which may change from time to time) may not be hosted with us. Our acceptable use policy, as of the time of this mailing, prohibits the following:
-- CHILD PORNOGRAPHY is required, BY LAW, to be reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Furthermore, it is our policy that, in additional to the required reporting, we voluntarily forward all information we have to law enforcement without the need for a subpoena or any other formal process. This allows law enforcement to respond more quickly, before the trail gets cold. We maintain extensive access logs with IP addresses, access times, and other information. This is not an anonymous hosting service, and we will report you. If you wish to report child pornography found on a web1000 web site, please email both [email protected] and [email protected].
-- Any sexually oriented depictions -- graphic, textual or otherwise -- of people who appear to be under 18 years old (including those who are adults but appear to be minors, or child-morphed photos of adults) is strictly forbidden. This is true even if the images are of clothed children, so long as there is some sexual overtone to the pictures individually, the website as a whole, or to the method of promoting the website. Posting these materials will result in our making law enforcement reporting because, by posting the images in violation of our terms of service, you are engaging in theft of our service.
-- It is illegal to knowingly use a misleading domain name with the intent to deceive a person into viewing obscenity, or to knowingly use a misleading domain name with the intent to deceive a minor into viewing material that is harmful to minors. You may not in any way use a misleading domain name.
-- Under federal law, a person is a felon, subject to prison time, if he "knowingly advertises, promotes, presents, or describes the visual depiction with the intent to cause any person to believe that the material is, or contains, a visual depiction of an actual minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct." Doing so is also in violation of our terms of service.
-- Explicit cartoon depictions of sex are not permitted, as it is simply too difficult, if not impossible, to determine whether such depictions are intended to portray minors.
-- Materials that are not constitutionally protected (i.e. obscene materials). Obscene material includes anything that would be obscene in San Jose, California or in the jurisdiction you are located in. Although this is not a complete list, some of the things that often qualify as obscene include the depiction of defecation, bestiality, rape, or murder.
-- Unlawful activities such as unauthorized distribution or copying of copyrighted photos, materials or software, violation of trademark or other intellectual property rights, violation of U.S. export restrictions, fraud, the solicitation of illegal gambling or prostitution, or other practices which may be considered illegal.
-- PageJacking, which includes stealing the look and feel of a third party web site that you do not own with the intention of defrauding consumers into believing that your web site is officially associated with that third party web site.
-- Net mail abuse, including message delivery considered to be spamming, mailbombing (sending numerous and very similar messages to the same e-mail addresses), trolling (generating outrageous messages with the purpose of generating greater response), subscribing others to a mailing list without permission, posting off-topic messages to news groups or discussion groups to generate web traffic, or distribution of bulk e-mail software. There are definitely other practices either unlawful or considered harassment, and Web1000 reserves the right to determine what constitutes net mail abuse.
-- The posting of defamatory, scandalous, or private information about a person without their consent, or intentionally inflicting emotional distress.
-- The posting of materials intended to harm another person or group, such as racist hate sites, and/or the posting of materials detailing methods of harming persons or property, such as bomb making instructions.
-- Misuse of system resources, including but not limited to, knowingly employing programs which consume excessive CPU time or storage space or the resale of access to CGI scripts installed on our servers.
-- The linking of your graphics or data files from an html page not maintained on Web1000, the use of Web1000 to store data files, or the storage of misidentified files.