marcr@marque.mu.edu (11/11/90)
A local person in Milwaukee would like to start a .gif collection
of 'adult' material.
Personally, with the net shutting down the FTP sites (and I WON'T get
into the censorship vs. NSF debate) it MIGHT be a good idea for someone
to put together a set of these pictures for prosperity.
If someone else has done this, wants more info, wants to complain, or
whatever, get in contact with the person listed in the below text.
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From: Ted Tang
To: All Msg #93, 09-Nov-90 05:46cst
Subject: Adult CD-ROM project
Adult CD-ROM project
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Date November 9, 1990
Introduction The following project is to produce an "adult" oriented
CD-ROM disc. Basically, I already have a 60 meg
collection of adult files sitting on expensive magnetic
media and backed up on floppy discs. My collection has
barely changed, only increased in size.
I no longer care to store so much "popular" files on
magnetic media. Now with a recently purchased CD-ROM
drive, I wish my collection was on there. To my surprise,
creating such a disc is not at all that expensive.
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Contents The CD-ROM disc will contain only "R", "NC-17", & "X"
rated files, no tame stuff like Sports Illustrated
pictures (although they are pretty nice). So far, the
following catagories have been designed:
text stories (forum) & ASCII printable pictures
general pictures
MacPaint pictures
GIFs pictures
series
distributors
miscellaneous
general animations
Grasp animation
games
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Plus necessary utilities like PKZIP, CSHOW, GRASPRT, etc.
Format Only MS-DOS format is being considered. If someone knows
how to extend this disc to benefit other platforms, your
help would be greatly appreciated.
The disc will be "BBS ready" with a FILES.BBS or whatever
is needed.
Cost $3000 initial mastering including 100 discs. After 100
discs, each would cost as little as $3. If the disc is
priced at $30 a piece, the initial mastering is covered
after the first 100. Afterwards, the efforts of the
members of this project gets covered if they choose to
sell them to friends. To protect the value of the disc, I
would advise that no one sells it for under $30.
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$30 a piece is pretty cheap nowadays, especially for
CD-ROM discs!
Legal probs A legal consultant (or more) will be needed for this task
because I foresee problems. You know this project can't
actually pay a lawyer anything but you can get some good
practice (plus a disc or two) in the process!
(1) "Blue laws"
Specifically, the distribution of pornography and
controlling who gets it.
(2) "Jim Maxi"
Specifically, if you haven't heard about Jim Maxi
threatning BBS's about distributing some of his GIFs.
(3) Copyright problems
This whole project maybe impossible if GIFs of
scanned pictures from "unknown" sources create an
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issue.
(4) Business laws
Is this whole project a business?
Wanted CONTRIBUTORS
Anyone who can add to the collection.
LEGAL CONSULTANT
Someone who knows the law regarding such a project.
Should specialize in copyright laws.
ADVISORS
Anyone who has been through all this before. If you have
created one of those Shareware CD-ROM discs, your help
would be greatly appreciated. If you distribute Shareware
for a fee, your help would also be appreciated.
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BUYERS
Anyone who wants one or more of these discs. Basically, I
need investors because I can't possibly shell out $3000
and sit around with 100 discs attempting to sell them. I
need promises of purchase. I hope to permit the first
disc to go for $30 and any additional disc to go for $3
(assuming we get the initial 100 promises at $30).
Benefits I figure anyone who helps out in launching this project
will be able to receive this disc and all future volumes
at cost to do with as he wishes. This is the only payoff
this project can offer. Besides, this would be a great
experience (heck, I've never done this before).
Closing I've created this file to keep anyone interested up to
date on the whole thing.
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Legend Here's my list of interested parties:
Name E-Mail Voice Notes
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Created by Ted Tang 1:154/386 414-332-9899 60 megs adult files
Contributors Robert Kubicheck 1:154/111 20 meg GIFs
Phil Davenport 1:154/386
Don Marquart 1:104/888 303-973-8535
Derek Wood 1:104/904 303-492-3905
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(Interested? Contact me to have your name added to this list)
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