AT&T and MCI make $1 billion on dial-a-porn. AT&T, Echostar and GM Direct TV for cable and satellite industry yield $310 million. Hilton, Marriott, Radisson, Sheraton, etc. come up with $250 million plus free TV sets. LodgNet and On Command (hotel suppliers of ‘adult’ pay-per-view) cash in $295 million. VISA (payment providers) take home $420 million.

This is called "white collar pornography."

Will the Department of Justice act against it? Hopefully.

This month, DOJ did arrest Gary Farris and EMI Enterprises for dishing out obscenity via website and US mail. "Farris offered approximately 180 separate video titles in four separate categories, (some) depicting the physical and sexual abuse and mutilation of several women," DOJ announced.

How did DOJ get the goods? Undercover investigations were seen through by US Postal Inspection Service and US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of DOJ and the FBI instigated the eventual findings.

Farris’ cyberspace offerings had a tie to even larger porno sites. Corporate logos of VISA, MasterCard, UCB and Discover Card showed up on the links. These corps are open to prosecution for violating fed law.

President Bush recently brought together 100 leaders to his offices to express his earnestness about fighting porno. It is the first-ever such presidential gathering on the subject.

"We don’t’ accept this kind of degrading. It’s unacceptable to America. We don’t accept offensive conduct like this in our schools, in the commercial establishments, and we can’t accept it in our homes," Bush declared.

The briefing followed on the heels of the first White House Conference on Missing Exploited and Runaway Children. "Our nation has made this commitment. Anyone who targets a child for harm will be a primary target of law enforcement," the president said.

He went on to announce that inter-agency cooperation in hitting Internet porno was increased by way of Operation Candyman, Operation Hamlet, and Operation Avalanche.

Through Candyman the FBI broke up a major child porn ring with 110 charged and 36 convicted. Through Hamlet Customs Service exposed a global ring of child molesters with 65 youths rescued and 25 adults, 14 being Americans, arrested. Through Avalanche the US Postal Inspection Service in cooperation with Dallas Internet Crimes Against Children charged 130 individuals.

Days ago Brad Greenberg, Cincinnati state prosecutor, got a conviction against a site operator who disseminated hard-core sex without "sexual abuse and mutilation." In his first such case, Greenberg beat out porn defense attorney, Louis Sirkin, a seasoned lawyer in defending obscenity.

DOJ has 93 US attorneys throughout the US. "They are the chief law enforcement officers in those districts. There’s a US attorney to prosecute in your area. Most people wouldn’t know what to do, but through obscenitycrimes.org they can do something about it," Pat Trueman, Morality in Media, said.