Are Sites Like Hush-Hush.com Legal?
 

A budy of mine came across this site hush-hush.com, and was asking me if it was legal. My first thought was no, simply because i didnt see any Custodians of Records listed on the site and the content doesnt look legit...

However i noticed " Australian laws apply. All models are 16 years or older."

Whats the deal with Australian laws?

No.

It appears to have been around for years... How are they still around?

LOL, he actually says 16? As far as I know any "adult style" nudity requires the model to be 18+ just like most other places.

I am not sure about the other areas of that site, but the webcam section is definitely Not Quite Right. His surfers submit images to get free access - there is no model release, and no age verification. Some of the images were lifted directly off my webcam archive site. I don't own those images (the girls do - I merely have permission to display them) but it clearly displays that there is absolutely no verification of source or age happening. I still check his webcam section occasionally to see if it has any ripped images of camgirls I know.

Thats what i thought...

Ok, I just had a look and quickly found some damning evidence... one particular camgirl got a bit excited when she was 15 (fifteen) and took some topless shots, although she claims she didn't know the camera was uploading images to her site. There are 42 pics of that session on 1stflirt.com (the hush-hush webcam section). I won't link to the archive for obvious reasons. Where can this be reported?

The site is hosted in the US so he must comply to US regulations..


ping hush-hush.com
PING hush-hush.com (64.14.143.151) 56(84) bytes of data.


whois 64.14.143.151

OrgName: Cable & Wireless
OrgID: EXCW
Address: 3300 Regency Pkwy
City: Cary
StateProv: NC
PostalCode: 27511
Country: US

ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.exodus.net:4321/

NetRange: 64.14.0.0 - 64.14.255.255
CIDR: 64.14.0.0/16
NetName: LEGACY-1
NetHandle: NET-64-14-0-0-1
Parent: NET-64-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: DNS01.EXODUS.NET
NameServer: DNS02.EXODUS.NET
NameServer: DNS03.EXODUS.NET
NameServer: DNS04.EXODUS.NET
Comment: * Rwhois reassignment information for this block is available at:
Comment: * rwhois.exodus.net 4321
Comment: * For abuse please contact [email protected]
RegDate:
Updated: 2002-08-21

the abuse link might be a good place to start

if you want to really bang him..

https://tips.fbi.gov/


go straight to the FBI

Remember that he is not in the USA.

The servers are in the USA and there is a PO Box for "Fax 2000 Pty Ltd" in Reservoir, Australia....

There is a good chance that its owned by someone in the USA...

www.thawte.com
In the US, kill his certificate.

Kill his hosting.

Report him to FBI, travel in America difficult (maybe)

[jmscarpa@jmscarpa log]$ whois hush-hush.com

Found a referral to whois.networksolutions.com.

fbi can contact netsol and give him hell.

wasn't there a big stink about this guy stealing (legal) content from necoeds and others?

im sure people have tried in the past. i wonder how hes till up.

While we are on the subject, what is up with the MANY 100% CircleJerk tgps I see where all the thumb previews are VERY bad CP and they all link to each other in popup hell, but there are no galleries or anything so it is very hard to actually nail down if their content exists and should be reported or if its just a big teasing illusion to build up endless cj traffic...

Exactly what i wanted to know... I have read about sites just like this getting shut down all the time and yet this guy apears to have been around since 1997...

That's some strange logic there... I have 4 servers in the USA but I am definitely not located there. :)

Complaining to USA authorities may get his hosted pulled, but probably not much more... if he's outside of the USA then he does not need to comply with 2257 requirements.

If he ever gets done it will probably be for straight copyright violation rather than the more serious offence of child pornography.

The only reason i say that is beacuse a lot of people take up PO Boxes and get Inc. in other countrys where the laws and taxes may be a little more loose than here in the USA.

However i do agree that if anything at all does happen it will probably be a slap on the rist, and nothing all that harsh.

No, its not legal.

just saw some nude teens, no lewd or explicit images ... so it would not be subject to anything illiegal except for copyright problems with the owners od the images ...

Anybody else think the US that should lower the age at which any nudity = abuse?

I mean, 16 year olds are not "children". Most 16 year olds have been having sex for quite some time, and a 16 year old girl uploading topless pics of herself is not "abuse".

In most parts of the world, throughout most of history, 16 has been a normal socially-acceptable marrying child-bearing age. Before modern medicine, that used to be almost middle aged!

I'd much rather law enforcement spend their time, money, personal, and resources going after real kiddy porn vs regulating the morals of hormonal teenagers.

Isn't calling a teenager with a webcam "child-abuse" only serving to cloud the severity of actual abuse and real criminals?

Do you think the guys egging her on to show her tits are also 16?

Check out this profile of a 16yo girl from the UK...

http://www.faceparty.com/just_aimee

Now check out the access that adults with credit cards can buy on her members site...

http://www.icklebabydscam.com/aimee/

The net makes it easy for a young and attractive girl to become an instant (mini) celeb, and make good money from it. But in the long run, who are her fans, really?

Morally, is a 40 year old guy jerking off to provocative 'non nude' (cough) images of a 16yo girl worse than a 40 year old guy jerking off to a nude images of an 18yo girl? Hmm...

irrelevant. it's her choice. she is not a helpless victim.

if most 16 years olds are happily having consensual sex,
then who cares about a topless pic?

My point is this is not "rape" or "abuse"; and shouldnt be called such.
Nobody is reaching through the screen to tear her shirt off.

besides, it's just boobies. :) all girls have them ..
seeing them harms noone... completely silly pointless taboo.

And I don't understand this kneejerk reaction so many posters in
this thread have, feeling it's urgent to report this "crime" to the FBI.

IMO the FBI should be working on more important things.
I dont think the gov't should waste one minute or one tax dollar on this.

CP is CP is CP....this asshole should go down. I have daughters and it pisses me off that people out there get their fucking kicks out of looking at kids. A 16 year old is still a kid. This kind of shit is why there is such a manhunt against the on-line adult industry. Just my :2 cents:

Another dad in denial that his daughter gives BJs? :glugglug
Be honest with yourself. Accept reality. It's ok, really.
(why do all parents believe their kid is the exception?)

This is not child porn. It's just proof a 16 year old girl has breasts. :eek2 (shocking!)
That's all. There are plenty of places in the world where 16 yr old girls go topless
on the beach, and society is no worse for it.

16 is a little too young, dont you think?

At nudist areas in Europe you see them all ages ..... there is no minimum age for nude bathing on a lake ...

Why does the address "Reservoir, Australia" ring a bell......

I am sure its not a big place.......

Dont we know someone from there?

uh.. you see there's laws... and people break them.

that simple.

not everybody ends up in jail right away like tv would have you believe.

Bullshit post.

My interpretation of CHILD-PORN (I'm going to speak with Joan Irvine from ASACP about this issue in a couple of weeks on my radio show) may differ from many, but I see it as the most rational response I've ever seen. So flame away.

As a heterosexual male, if an attractive full bodied woman passes by, I'm going to look. If she turns out to be 12, 13 or 16 (Food additives etc. have increased female hormone growth in the past two decades), and she looks like a woman, THAT does NOT make someone a pedophile.

Dictionary.com-Pedophile-An adult who is sexually attracted to a child or children.

Dictionary.com-Children-A person between birth and puberty. (The only relevant definition).

Therefore, I see, as I always HAVE seen, a pedophile as someone who seeks out or is attracted to prepubescents or human specimens who have not matured (The defintion of prepubescent is redundant).

However, KNOWINGLY searching out 12, 13 or 16 year old girls that HAVE fully developed (IE-POSTpubescent) is, while perhaps not pedophilia, certainly worth jail time (strictly because of the maturity level that YOU speak about).

P.S. Notice no lame attempt to spam my radio show WITH Joan Irvine.

When I was 16, I went to Spain and I went topless on the beach and even into a shop, and noone cared. So why do americans get all retarded about it?

This would fall under the law known as "EXPECTED Right To Privacy," REGARDLESS of the age of the man or woman involved, so long as the individuals are not engaged in a sexual act (In MOST cases this would define everything on 1st Flirt).