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Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Image Hosting
Spamicles writes "The guys over at the Pirate Bay have launched a new, censorship-free image hosting website called BayImg. Users of the new service don't have to sign-up in order to upload images. However, they can assign a 'removal code' to uploaded images, in case they want to delete the files after a while, and tags to categorize images. BayImg currently supports 100+ file formats, and supports uploading Zip and Rar archives. The maximum file size of uploads is 100MB. The article also discusses TPB's plans for launching a video streaming service that will potentially compete with YouTube."
But since you can't just browse the images, the only people who would see the child porn are child porn enthusiasts, and the feds who investigate them. So it's unlikely that you'd hear about it, unless you were into that stuff. In which case, ew, you perv...
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Looks like its hosted in Sweden and the domain is registered to a Swedish address via a German registrar.
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no but they do state right at the front page
"As long as your pictures are legal they will be hosted here"
so sence child porn is illigal it will be taken down if noticed
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I would rather be able to see the filth of society clearly
Take a nice, hard look. (You'll want the "Random" board. Totally NSFW.)
As far as I can tell, 7chan seems to be made up of people who got banned from 4chan, which in itself is remarkable, since 4chan's moderation is...minimal...at best.
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In England 17 is legal.
actually its 16
The age of consent in England is 16, as specified by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 {44(1)}. However it is illegal for a person to engage in sexual activity with an individual under the age of 18, if they are in a position of trust in relation to that individual (teacher, warder, care giver, guardian, etc).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_E
Grandparent: In England 17 is legal.
Parent: actually its 16
It depends what you're talking about; the age of consent in England *is* 16, but I believe that to appear in adult material you have to be at least 18. (I remember hearing that apparently Samantha Fox - a 1980s "page 3" star- was 16 when she did her first shoots, and they commented that this would not be legal nowadays. Note that page three is topless, and no more).
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You may view entires by tags by going to http://www.bayimg.com/tag/
Wrong, in the US at least.
(They were able to get another bill passed, but it contains that oft-seen "lacks serious scientific, literary, artistic, or political value" clause that fortunately renders the law very hard to enforce.)
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If you dig around in the tags for a bit, it becomes pretty clear that they extract the images from any compressed archives, and then throw the archive away. That is to say, you can upload an archive, and the images in it will be made available for download. The archive itself is never made available for download.
Also, if the model LOOKS under 18 and the image is distributed/created with the intention of it looking that way, that's probably illegal too.
In America, this is legal. In the UK, it's not.
The Child Pornography Protection Act was passed in 1996 in America which banned any image that "is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct." In Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, the Supreme Court struck down the law. The justices wrote: In particular, it prohibits the visual depiction of teenagers engaged in sexual activity, a "fact of modern society and has been a theme in art and literature throughout the ages."
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I believe in England 16 is legal.
So close but still incorrect.
The age for appear in adult material is 18 without parental consent, 16 with parental consent.
Sam's folks were so proud of her that they allowed her to do page 3.
This law hasn't changed at all so proud parents can still allow their children (16,17!) to be published.
You're close, TPB wasn't hosting that site. The ISP that hosts TPB hosts the activism website.
So, it is
ISP
- TPB
- Activism Site
not
ISP
- TPB
- Activism Site