For $9.95 a month, a small company offered access to a search tool that would scour electronic bulletin boards for millions of “uncensored” movies and photographs and serve up “an all-you-can-eat taste of ‘the Internet gone wild!'” Voicenet Communications executives said they didn’t know users also were using their system to access child pornography until January, when authorities seized the computer servers that ran their “QuikVue” search program, a lawyer for the company said.
Despite a burgeoning amount of online child pornography, prosecutors have been cautious in their handling of Internet companies that don’t manufacture or distribute illegal content themselves, but do make it easier for customers to see material posted by others.
Source: Excite/Associated Press
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