who is responsible?

[hobbes]

@SnnY - Pornography is the biggest money maker on the internet.

There is so much free porn out there, I can't imagine why people need to subscribe to porn sites.

I guess I'm just not kinky enough?

Porn not only is the biggest money maker on the internet, it probably actually created it.

Totally off topic: As an aside, in 1996, there was a big push to make sites ID everyone. A service called Adultcheck allowed a yearly subscription via credit card and they would vouch for your age. That seems to have gone away, I wonder why?

[Arm]

I raised it as many that object to pornography altogether... hold to their rights to have guns because they are not "criminals" and shouldn't have their right to have guns removed because "guns don't kill people...people do" and they shouldn't have their rights taken away because of the actions of others...

I never said take away the right to guns altogether. Just to the people who have a high chance of using them to hurt or kill others.

[j2k4]

I never said take away the right to guns altogether. Just to the people who have a high chance of using them to hurt or kill others.

You have missed the legal conflict, Arm:

In many/most cases, privacy issues forestall efforts to determine just who might "have a high chance" of using firearms for wrong purposes.

The administration of such information is a bit spotty (though it is getting better), but even at it's optimum, it wouldn't reveal all those with violent potential.

[Busyman]

Well, I don't think, as Boab suggests, that we can make the cards illegal just because someone might use them to support his "illegal website".

Boab, like myself, have looked at this from the perspective of how someone could use these cards to finance their child pornography. For instance, if I went to a kiddie porn site and signed up with my credit card, any FBI raid on the place would lead them to my doorstep. If I can access the site annonymously, using the appropriate proxys, I can remain hidden from the FBI as they have no way to track me (no credit card #).

The key is how to pay the porn site owner. Well you do so by paying for it at their legimate site using a porn card. Once you have credited their legit site, they allow to access a private site that is completely separate from the card system.

How will they learn about these hidden sites? I don't know, probably however they do it now. Little private chatroom on the internet or something.

One could just send the money, but gosh, it got lost again. And they know, even if they do this, you'll still be coming back.

The porn card is a great way to launder money, view kiddie porn under an extra layer of security and convenience and make the website owners W-2* look legit at the years end.

To answer your question, I think Boabs experience in criminology made him attempt to figure out how "bad guys" could use this to their advantage. BY knowing how to think like they do, he can anticipate problems which may arise and develop a plan to tackle them.




*A W-2 is a yearly earnings statement for income tax purposes- for those not in the USA.

There's a problem with everything you just said....

boab suggests making all the cards illegal which is ludicrous and it's decisions like that that are all over our country's judicial system.

Add to that you said that stuff before and there's no telling if boab was thinking just that. (what you were thinking)

In DC, after 6:30 pm, you can't make a left onto Connecticut Av NW from K St Nw if you are going west.
Now this may make sense in a rush hour time period but after 6:30 pm is near the end of rush hour.

This 'no left turn' was put in place because of prostitution.

So now you have to go 1 block past there and make 3 lefts to get to same spot. I got a "fucking" ticket there about 11 years ago when I was trying to go a club on that block.

You left out one thing in you example. The cards that are being sold have to be maybe just passwords. If a site owner "somehow" links to kiddie porn, how will the passwords discern legit kiddie porn lickers from law enforcement?

You and boab goin' fishin'?

[hobbes]

You and boab goin' fishin'?

No, boab always pukes in the boat.