Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 1:17 PM
From: Tom Hymes ([email protected])
Subject: A Plan to Stop Online Kiddie Porn
Steve Freiss' Jan. 9 article A Plan to Stop Online Kiddie Porn presents a balanced assessment of one of the seminars at the Internext adult Internet tradeshow, and excellent coverage of the industry association, Adult Sites Against Child Pornography, but misled your readers by asserting that, "Only 15 minutes earlier the same hall at the Internext convention was jammed with entrepreneurs listening to another panel on how to make money off peer-to-peer piracy of adult online content."
The actual topic of that seminar was how adult website operators can protect their content from the sort of piracy that is rampant in some commercial peer-to-peer networks. The panelists also presented ways in which website operators can leverage seemingly inevitable piracy of their content to improve their fiscal bottom lines. As written, the sentence seems to say that the seminar provided lessons in how to steal others' content for fun and profit, which certainly wasn't, and isn't, the case. Instead, the theme of the discussion was "Stop fighting them and learn to use the content pirates to your advantage."
Tom Hymes
Editor-in-Chief, AVN Online
Seminar Coordinator, Internext
