Remember that age verification service which got busted a few years back when the feds managed to convince a jury that the owners were the "madams of a child porn bordello," based on two overseas sites which featured illegal material? http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.2001.08.06-2001.08.12/msg00433.html Well, after managing to entrap a few hundred US citizens into ordering KP from the feds, the feds are now grepping the list of 250,000 customers by country, and shipping the data off to other nations so that they may attempt to lure their own citizens as well. In the UK, this is of course the currently being reported on "Operation Ore" which is nailing pervy brits right and left, including Who musician Pete Townshend. In the US, the distortion continues full speed, with the age verification service still being referred to as "The World's Largest Child Porn Ring", with "250,000 child porn customers" paying millions for "pay per view" access to "over 6000" sites featuring pictures of "babies being raped," which is a small part of the "insatiable demand" for the" child sexual abuse pictures" featured on "over 100,000 web sites", or so Connie Chung tells us. Well, at least it makes being in the age verification business exciting. In the midst of all this frivolity, the Village Voice has written a very intelligent article on the current charges against Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, which apparently stem from an occasional minor featured in his vintage collection of 1960's muscle magazines, and a few grainy possible underage males in his now meticulously combed through collection of antique 8mm gay porn. The Village Voice: Features: Richard Goldstein: Persecuting Pee Wee http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0303/goldstein.php All this, and a dead Echols too. It's been quite a week. :) -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"