User:Dsprc/Amateur Action BBS

The Amateur Action BBS was founded in February 1991, by Robert and Carleen Thomas. It featured photographs of regular people in sexual situations provided as GIF files. The system required a credit card to join and suffered a number of raids during its lifetime.

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 * Electronic Privacy Information Center: https://epic.org/free_speech/censorship/us_v_thomas.html


 * RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION
 * Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 24
 * ELECTRONIC CITATION: 1996 FED App. 0032P (6th Cir.)
 * File Name: 96a0032p.06
 * Nos. 94-6648/6649
 * UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
 * FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
 * _________________
 * UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
 * Plaintiff-Appellee,
 * v.
 * ROBERT ALAN THOMAS (94-6648)
 * and CARLEEN THOMAS (94-6649),


 * United States v. Thomas 74 F3d 701 (6th Ciruit, 1996)
 * echoing prosecution -- Staff writer (30 May 1996). Utah Judge sentences California man in Internet child-pornography case. The Dessert News. 12 September 2015
 * "Search Warrant Affidavit in Amateur Action BBS Case," H. K. Hensen. CU Digest / Computer Underground Digest, 6, (4 April 1994)
 * "Defense Motion Filed in Amateur Action BBS Case," File 2, CU Digest / Computer Underground Digest, 6, 36 (24 April 1994)
 * Boardwatch Magazine / September (1st??), 1993. Lance Rose:"BBS BURNINGS". Legally Online column, p. 62


 * IP: Ruling on Amateur Action BBS Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 15:46:52 -0500 -- http://seclists.org/interesting-people/1996/Feb/35
 * http://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-v-Thomas
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20150913091306/https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-v-Thomas


 * Jones, Steve (2002). Encyclopedia of New Media: An Essential Reference to Communication and Technology. p. 47. Sage Publications. 9781452265285. Retrieved 11 September 2015
 * Harold Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry R. Lewis. Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008. PDF. pp. 238–239. 9780137135592 Retrieved 11 September 2015
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20150913094144/http://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/01/17/12/00001/BlownBits.pdf
 * Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/


 * https://www.ire.org/resource-center/stories/12084/ (Time Magazine 1995 July 3 Pages 8) (((Carnegie Mellon Communications Decency Act ((1996)) SurfWatch)))
 * ?? http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,134361,00.html ON A SCREEN NEAR YOU -- PHILIP ELMER-DEWITT Sunday, June 24, 2001
 * https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/Jurisdiction/Oberding_Full.html
 * http://www.computer-underground-digest.org/aabbs/aabbs.html "A few background resources for Amateur Action BBS / Robert & Carleen Thomas"
 * https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/effect-on-interpersonal-skills/Relationships5.htm (((Carnegie Mellon)))
 * http://www.wired.com/1996/04/es-states/ "Americans Are Not As Free As We Think We Are." 04.01.96 Charles Platt (Magazine)
 * http://www.spectacle.org/795/amateur.html The Ethical Spectacle, July 1995 Amateur Action
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20160603185900/http://banilsson.blogspot.com/2013/12/increasing-bawd-rate.html
 * Mitchell P. Goldstein, Congress and the Courts Battle over the First Amendment: Can the Law Really Protect Children from Pornography on the Internet?, 21 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 141 (2003) http://repository.jmls.edu/jitpl/vol21/iss2/1/
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20150918215501/http://repository.jmls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1113&context=jitpl
 * CREIGHTON LAW REVIEW https://web.archive.org/web/20160603203717/https://dspace.creighton.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10504/40206/50_30CreightonLRev1405%281996-1997%29.pdf
 * David Loundy Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, August 1, 1994 p. 5. http://www.loundy.com/CDLB/AABBS.html


 * Second: 5:08-cr-00487-JF. July 23, 2008. Bestiality DVDs, “B1”, “B2- Ride a Horse”, “B3”. §1461, §1465. Judge Hon. Plea. Counts 4, 5. Counts 1-3 dismissed.