How does one sieze an ISP? A couple of machines used to forward UseNet traffic were impounded with the cooperation of the service providors. Get your shit straight. On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Pallas Anonymous Remailer wrote:
Some US ISP's were seized in a cyberporn bust.
Dreamscape's statement at:
http://www.dreamscape.com/dream98/statement.htm
Buffnet's at:
Vacco's at:
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/oct98/oct28_98.html
All three worth reading. This could be a big story. The theory against the ISPs (not that they've been charged with a crime) is that they knowingly carried the newsgroups:
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.early-teen
This has broader application -- alt.binaries.warez.*, alt.binaries.sounds.mp3, etc.
Is any ISP which carries suspect newsgroups at risk of having its equiptment seized, and who draws up the blacklist of newsgroups?
Or worse, is there no public blacklist at all -- just the hovering fear of an up-for-reelection AG swooping down. And when do naughty pictures start showing up in alt.fan.disney? And what's the AG's move then?