I was reading the link to the report on it that 
someone else gave, and in the talkback there was 
the interesting suggestion of creating a new 
extension - for example, ".porn" - and requiring 
adult websites to use it. (Of course, what 
juristiction this would have over sites in 
foreign countries is questionable. But it would 
begin to create the legal gray zone needed for 
law to forage into new territory.) I know zero 
about how an extension might be created, but it 
seems like it might be a partial solution.

What should really wake these companies up is 
this. . . I am not offended by the majority of
"tame" to moderately raunchy porn. I think it is 
a good thing that there are ammendments to 
protect it, for the of-age people who wish to 
view those types of things. These same laws 
protect my right to legally buy raunchy doujinshi 
if I so desire. (Bad pun notwithstanding. ^_~) 
What *REALLY* offends me about things like this 
are that this potentially VERY offensive product 
is being shoved in the faces of people who are 
*NOT* looking for it, do *NOT* want to see it, 
and (in the cases of minors finding this in their 
e-mail inboxes) *SHOULD NOT* be seeing it.

Moreover - to look past the moral issue - this 
type of activity contributes to the *uselessness* 
of the the internet. Already, web search engines 
are drowned in crap. . . For any search you do, 
you need to be prepared for half the links to be 
dead, the rest of the relevant ones to have 
outdated information, the others to have been 
changed to irrelevant content or to have never 
*had* relevant content to begin with (only a 
stupid keyword stuck at the end of the page in 
invisible writing to increase hits to the 
site). . . And now you have jerks *TRYING* to 
create more essentially dead links.

That second almost pisses me off more than the 
moral angle of the thing. The internet, like ANY 
research device (be it a book, paper catalogue, 
or computer database) is ONLY as useful as it is 
organized. . . and with each passing year, this 
online home of ours becomes increasingly 
*dis*organized, increasingly *useless*. Now on 
purpose. And for what point? To try to market 
a "product" to people disinterested in seeing it 
in the first place.

If it were funny, it might be considered a joke. 
Too bad it's not funny.

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac