VoyeurDorm's primary host is watching very carefully while the Tampa home-based live adult Web site fights a battle with city fathers to return to business.
"We just sued the city of Tampa," says CandidCam sales representative J.C. Medici, who was attending ia2000. "It's a long, slow process, our lawsuit and their trying to open again."
VoyeurDorm, which features college-age women living together and allowing live Web cam to capture their activities in the house, was ordered to stop after Tampa invoked zoning regulations barring adult businesses from operating in residential areas.
"If they keep VoyeurDorm shut down," Medici says, "they're going to have to shut down every couple who does any live feed out of their own house. It's the same principle."
All this despite the VoyeurDorm home having no signage indicating any business activity, never mind adult business. "You can drive by and you wouldn't even be able to point out the house," Medici says.
Various observers at ia2000, when asked about the VoyeurDorm situation, told AVN On the Net that the VoyeurDorm situation could also have ramifications for any home-based business, even though Tampa's obvious target seems to be the adult industry.
One Net businessman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said VoyeurDorm could easily pick up and relocate to another residence in a different area nearby and resume operating without hassle, "but this is kind of obviously a test case, look at the big press they're getting now."
Medici says CandidCam isn't exactly worried for now. For one thing, they plan to open up an all-male Web dorm, DudeDorm, November 1.
"I don't know if we'll see any trouble with that," he says, alluding to potential ripple effects from the VoyeurDorm case. "I mean, in every case, in every suit, there has to be the person, the site that kind of steps up, and is the model, and that's VoyeurDorm."
Other than the VoyeurDorm case, Medici says CandidCam was mostly enjoying the ia2000 convention and looking to some new projects in the offing.
"We've got some new magazines coming out, we just released Fantasy Man. We're just enjoying the show…and the publicity."
