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While this is not meant as a substitution for sound legal advice, anyone operating an adult webmaster should be aware of several common strategies for complying with laws and regulations tied to keeping kids out of your adult website.

The New York Attorney General's office sent a loud message to Comcast Cable, the State's second largest Internet provider, that if it does not eliminate access to child porn, there will be legal consequences. Perhaps this is a load of political gesturing before an election year, but I bet Comcast heeds this warning and steps up some of their filtering technologies.

A ruling handed down by the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals in relation COPA (Child Online Protection Act), stated that the law "cannot withstand a strict scrutiny, vagueness, or overbreadth analysis and thus is unconstitutional".

Parents in the UK have become outraged that a national Dollar store (a 'Pound Store') in the UK has been selling 1-hour long DVDs for about $2. They argue that the retail outlet should not sell the explicit material in a store where children and families regularly come to spend their pocket money.

Scotland is considering proposals that 13 year olds should be allowed to have sex- with each other, without punishment. The proposed legislation would make it illegal for anyone above 16 to have sex with a minor, but would decriminalize the act for 13-15 year olds who have sex with each other.

Rapper R. Kelley has been dismissed of all accounts of obscenity and having sex with a minor after prosecutors failed to show that a video featuring a man and a young woman engaged in sex was actually the defendant. Kelley, argued the defense, has a big black mole on his back, whereas the performer in the trial's video evidence has no such mole.

At $20 Billion Dollars a year, the kiddie porn business is no laughing matter, and the FBI claims that the escalating demand and supply for the illicit content is outpacing their ability to effectively address the problem.

Despite being declared unconstitutional by a federal judge in 2007, government lawyers apparently made efforts last Tuesday in Congress to bring back the 1998 Child Online Protection Act.

R Kelly, the once popular musician whose smooth tunes and heavy beats once ranked at the top of the pop-charts, is standing trial for allegedly producing a sex tape with an underage girl six years ago. The problem in the case is whether it is possible to select an unbiased jury who hasn't heard of the case or have other prejudices against the musical superstar.

Modern media culture has placed a high priority on youth in a sexualized manner that encourages kids to promote their own sexuality by mimicking images and roles they see on TV and in the movies even before they should be considered sexually active.