I'm just amused by ARS's highly scientific and legalistic use of "the showing of Pink or pubic area". How about lavender? And what about fuschia? Am I also to assume that particurlary hairy women are exempt? It's ok to show a muff with enough hair to house a family of squirrels, but if she's shaved clean, she's got to go...

For the purposes of 2257, it appears that they exempted "E".

As for thumbtgps, remember that a thumbnail is made from an original work. You must maintain on file for 2257 purposes a copy of the original image if it is sexually explicit. Therefore, you must be 100% certain that the original image is NOT sexual before you can use the thumb.

Good luck with it. I think the text link route will be what really covers everyone's ass.

Alex

I dunno, I think it will take at least 8 or 10 text links to cover that ass that Cleo posted. |shocking|

Actually I just had an email from a sponsor that is very unique in that not only have they solved the problem with thumbs they have also made the idea of sponsors having free hosting even more of a reality

Lets say you decide to use all free hosted galleries on your thumb tgp - yeah theres plenty of them out there that do it - and the sponsor hosts the preview thumbs as well on their servers - all you are doing is hot linking them - or one step further - the submitters that want to use this sponsors content can set up their galleries on the sponsors servers with the preview thumbs still hosted there as well
That covers all responsibilities of the TGP as he's not actually publishing anything from his own server - hes just hotlinking everything - basically the sponsor becomes a fusker :)

Out of reach - nope - I just had one sponsor email that they are setting that up right now

hmm thats intresting but it will defenetly will fuck up sponsors bandwidth :)
for webmasters somehow it can be a good move less bandwidth but i am not sure how Google or Yahoo treating hotlinkers specially when most of the images are hot linked
but i do think sponsors will start getting serious Image search traffic from G & Y :)
any thoughts on it ?

**!!FAINT!!**

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