Hi,
We promoted our EroticUsenet service in the XBiz newsletter recently, which generated some incorrect statements from a couple of folks within the Greenguy & Jim message board.
In response to that discussion thread, we'd like to make 3 points:
1) Usenet newsgroups predate the Internet, and they are provided by Telco, ISP, government, university, and corporate news servers worldwide. We receive over 2 million newsgroup postings a day, and during the 12 years that we've operated our Usenet service, we have not been involved in any legal matters related to 2257. If interested, I've included our complete 2257 policy statement at the end of this message
2) Generally speaking, the Usenet / 2257 discussion is usually originated by a handful of adult service providers who feel their home territory is being threatened. Rather than educate adult webmasters and developers about how Usenet can benefit their businesses, some providers seek to stifle competition by making negative comments about Usenet that are simply untrue & uninformed.
3) In regards to XBiz / Gigacash, they need to decide if they are in the business of selling advertising space or selling competing adult products & services... trying to juggle both, creates a clear conflict of interest.
We appreciate the opportunity to correct some of the earlier misstatements, and if there are any questions about this topic, please feel free to contact us.
Best regards,
Joe D'Alessandro
EroticUsenet.Com
(T) 408-720-7620 / 1-866-487-3638
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info@eroticusenet.com
### Our 2257 statement:
18 U.S.C. Section 2257compliance does not apply to Usenet services of any type, from any provider, including those operating on government servers, corporate servers, universities, every major Telco and the tens of thousands of commercial Usenet services operating worldwide on the Internet. Usenet is a protocol or conveyance, designed to propagate millions of daily messages across virtually all Usenet services, Erotic Usenet is not a content originator, so there is no content to pledge as child pornography free. The analogy is an International phone company attempting to censor the contents of every phone conversation that takes place on its network. This does not mean we do not contribute to barring the presence of child pornography from Usenet.
Erotic Usenet will not maintain a business relationship with any entity or individual responsible for posting child pornography through Erotic Usenet, or maintains such material as a component of their service. In addition, we will seek to block or filter originating points of this material, including discontinuing peering relationships with services that do propagate child pornography. Erotic Usenet maintains an outbound stream of "cancel messages" to cooperative services that removes material of this type as discovered, not only on Erotic Usenet systems, but participating services as well. Erotic Usenet actively assists law enforcement in child pornography investigations. Erotic Usenet maintains a system for customers to report to us any infractions of policy regarding child pornography and addresses reports expeditiously.