Are these sites 2257 compliant?
 

A ton of questions...

(make sure to turn off your adult filtering)
http://images.google.com/images?biw=...ck&btnG=Search

http://images.search.yahoo.com/searc...&p=Hilary+Duff

http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?...lti&cat=images

http://www.altavista.com/image/resul...iwxh=all&dis=1

http://search.msn.com/images/results...ORM=MSNH&q=sex

None of these sites seem to give a damn that they have explicit preview images on their servers, if they are non 2257 compliant then I wonder what their plan is to deal with it?

And why would a thumb TGP be any different than any other image based search engine? Is there a loophole that we're not seeing?

Where are these companies in the fight?

And if we patch Comus with the following 2257 update to allow webmasters to remove explicit thumbs and replace them with placemarkers... As on the following Beta sites, would this be enough?
http://xxxonfire.com/index.shtml
http://xxxonice.com/

Is there anything else I should add?

And what the hell is explicit anyway?
Are Tits to be considered explicit? Do nipples make a difference?
Are Toys when not displayed next to genitals considered explicit?
Are panties and thongs considered explicit?

Thanks for your input - Sixzeros.
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sorry i'm confused. what happens if you break the 2257 rules??

tony

man this is going to get interesting.

your're going to jail!

Celebrity pics have always been risky ,although those are softcore,why take the risk?

Just because they're multinational mega corps doesn't mean they shouldn't have to be 2257 compliant.They are in direct violation of the law, and should all go to jail now!

Accoding to a Seminar I attended that had as guest speakers, a couple of former Federal District attorneys. Tit's are not explicit, even full nudity is not explicit, as long as the genitals are not openly displayed, IE: the legs stay together, or there is no straight on shot.

Having said that, under 18, will still get you in trouble.

That's what they told us at a very expensive Seminar.

Thanks guys,

So these sites with the explicit thumbs replaced by 'category' placemarkers are probably a step in the right direction.

http://xxxonice.com/
http://xxxonfire.com/index.shtml

and google, yahoo, msn, altavista, lycos, etc could all find themselves fighting a big battle on the industries behalf.

google, yahoo, etc are exempt

It would seem that yahoo are not exempt...they;re pulling chat rooms down, and have disabled user uploaded photos... I guess it's just a matter of time b4 they update their image databases.

http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?cat=2&id=9233

that was because of advertisers and pedos looking for little kids. The Yahoo deal had nothing to do with 2257. Also google doesn't host the images, they just resize them.