What's Legal?
Often in high-bandwidth hosting, legal
issues arise. Many of the most bandwidth-intensive applications are
adult-related, such as serving an adult web site, adult streaming video, or
adult file download servers.
As a registered New Jersey Corporation, we must abide by the laws of New
Jersey, the United States of America, and the laws of the states in which we
host servers (primarily Virginia and California).
As a general rule of thumb, we do
allow hosting of adult materials! When hosting adult sites,
however, we require that our clients:
- Refrain from hosting or exploiting
images or videos containing anyone under the age of 18.
- Present signed documentation to us
certifying that all subjects are over the age of 18, and indicating the
physical location in which legal records containing proof-of-age are
stored.
- Refrain from hosting anything that may
be considered illegal in the United States of America, the State of New
Jersey, or the Commonwealth of Virginia.
We also kindly request that our
clients:
- Require proof-of-age for their
customers. This may be done by our clients in-house, or may be
provided by a third-party company.
- Do not make photographs or videos
containing full frontal nudity available to users that have not presented
proof-of-age.
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Examples of What's Allowed*:
- Open-source software mirroring.
- Commercial software mirroring.
- Streaming audio, video, or shoutcast
servers, providing non-copyrighted materials, materials to which you own
the copyright, or copyrighted materials to which you have been granted
permission to redistribute.
- Legal adult sites, containing subjects
over the age of 18 only.
Examples of What's Not Allowed*:
- Hosting of "pirated" commercial
software, or "warez."
- IRC server hosting.
- Hosting of an adult site containing
subjects under 18 years of age or containing materials that are considered
illegal, such as bestiality.
* These lists are non-exhaustive.
Please contact us for more information or if you have questions.
As a reminder, we must cooperate with all
federal, state, and local government authorities. Please be sure you
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