An adult video producer who works with an Eastern Europe model agency is sounding the alarm after the agency's Web site were arrested for child porn and "crimes against nature" - based on links posted to the site which the agency may not have known took Net surfers to such places.
Watch your links very carefully, says David Lang - you may be held responsible for their content.
"This has scary implications," says Lang of the Interpol probe which has led to the owners of Latvia-based Logos being arrested for child pornography and bestiality over links on the agency's Web site which the owners may not have known led to such sites. "What concerns me…is that a lot of them have websites, and linking to someone with a questionable site in the Netherlands could be the basis to come and invade offices here in the (United) States. That is a very big problem."
"One of these links led to a site that supposedly had bestiality on it," says Lang of the Logos agency's Web site. "Another link led to a site that supposedly had underage models. Both links were in other countries…(and) based on the contents of the links only, Interpol and the local authorities arrested the owners of the model agency."
Lang's Long Island-based Oliya Productions has been a Logos client, using their models for various video features, including My Midlife Crisis. Their relationship, Lang says, enabled Oliya to bring to video the "freshest" European models.
Lang is sounding the alarm to adult Web owners: watch where you're linking.
He says one of the agency owners is free on bail awaiting a court hearing while the other remains behind bars, with all agency records, equipment, property, and monies confiscated. "I know these men," he says. "The only thing they are guilty of is adding these links to their site.
"All Web owners should be forewarned - they may start becoming responsible for what is on sites that are linked to theirs."
Lang says authorities are using the modeling agency records to investigate all adult materials producers which are on the agency's records. And he says he fears that based on guilt-by-association principles, even indirectly, this case could become an excuse to investigate and prosecute all American and European agency clients whether or not they've had any connection to child porn or bestiality.
He says the sites which links got Logos into trouble were based in Germany and the Netherlands. "Whether they were (showing) sex or not is not clear," he says, "but based on that, (Interpol was) able to get warrants and walk into the [Logos] offices and lock everybody up."
Interpol's preliminary reviews of Logos paperwork showed Lang's company and a few other American companies on the agency's client list. He insists he knows the Logos owners well enough to know they would not normally deal with materials like child porn or bestiality.
Lang says Latvia's legal age for appearing in pornographic materials was 16, but he would not go there "because I wouldn't be able to sell it, so everyone I worked with was over 18. They only changed the law from 16 to 18 in January."
