Gushi Systems Web Hosting
I notice almost everyone comes to
this page, and then leaves the site. This is the last damned page everyone looks
at, and I think I know why. This page used to have just the
very informative red and green table below, but let
me put it in Plain English and tell you what I think you want to hear (even
though it's what I've been saying all along). Ready? Keen.
Yes, you can put
up Yiffy Art!
If you don't know what this means,
don't worry about it. For the rest of you, it means if you're an Artist, or
selling furry art, or something along those lines, then yes, it's okay
to put that stuff up. As long as either A) You're the artist who made
it, or B) You have permission to post it for public view (in other words, as
long as you're respecting the rights of the artist), then by all means,
ftp it in.
There's a little catch, though. Ready?
I ask (nicely)
that you put a disclaimer or a warning in before any adult content. It's
no longer a requirement. But it is common courtesy to your viewer, and in general,
good form and good taste. However, if I, as the server admin, get complaints
from people about your undisclaimered content (If they go to the trouble to
look up who I am through network tracing or domain registration), I will pass
them on to you, but I will take note. I don't need bad PR. Easy enough?
This
is porn. (Warning:External Link to a random smut site) It's whole reason
for existence is to make money by EATING BANDWIDTH. No artistic value, just
lots of videos of people !@#ing. And you get to pay to watch them. Lucky you.
This
stuff ISN'T. (FurBid Adult Category Link). It HAS artistic value,
no matter how badly drawn it is (nothing against any specific Furbid artist
there). More accurately, it's put up by you. Because you created
it.
What exactly do we define as porn?
And what can and can't you do as a designer? Here are a few examples of what
you can and cannot do. Anything with green in the left column is okay, anything
red isn't. Simple, right?
| OK! |
Let's say
you're an artist. You draw an anthropomorphic wolf... |
| Uh huh! |
A boy wolf... |
| Fine! |
A naked
boy wolf... |
| Cool! |
A well-proportioned
naked boy wolf, showing it all to the world... |
| Wow! |
And engaging
in acts of questionable morality with another wolf (of either gender)... |
| Nifty! |
With "toys"... |
| Okay! |
While tied
up... |
| Blub! |
Underwater... |
| 'ere! |
While doing
ganja (don't ask me about the physics of this one, it's an example)... |
| Arright! |
And practicing
witchcraft... |
| Ouch! |
And getting
his nipple pierced... |
| Yup! |
By a midget...
|
| Eew. |
Who's also
urinating on him... Hey, look at all that GREEN on the right. That means
it's allowed! No matter how tasteless, it's your art and your site.
However...what if... |
| NO! |
You use the
server as your personal repository of all the porn you downloaded from SexyFur.com
or Playboy.com last week, and tell people it's here for free! So come and
get it now! FREE NUDE PICS! ALL AMATEUR TEENS! GET ON THE BANG BUS! (God
I hate those ads). Am I making the distinction obvious enough? Don't
abuse a shared resource by posting material you don't even have the rights
to! Let's do another, shall we? |
| Lucky! |
You took a
photo of your significant other, er, having fun with someone else. For the
heck of it, let's say they both love your photography in this one shot and
you get permission from them (in writing, of course, so you know your butt
is covered if you ever have a fight with them or something.) to post that
one picture publicly... |
| *click* |
And you link
to it from your home page... |
| Oh wow |
And you show
it to all your friends... |
| Hot Damn |
Who in turn
show it to all their friends... |
| Hold It... |
When you decide
to take more, and start charging for access, after all, all this bandwidth
is free, right? Wow, why is that left cell thing suddenly red? Because
you're making money off of a resource I'm giving you for a completely different
purpose. Once it goes over to "paid porn site" I draw the
line. I think it's reasonable that if you're [ab]using a lot of a resource
I give out generously for all my users I should be allowed to ask for more,
if you're making money off of my server at the measly six bucks a month
I charge. *whew* Okay, I'm done. But what about... |
| OK! |
You do nudes
in your college life-drawing class and want to upload your sketches. It's
fine. I use this example specifically because life-drawing models have already
signed a waiver that says they understand that what's drawn may be posted,
and they relinquish all rights to the materials. Here's another example: |
| Sure. |
You're a goth
girl going to a small Long Island University. You have some photos of your
body and want to publish them... |
| Sure. |
But they're
nude... |
| Sure |
And show your
lower body... |
| Sure |
As well as
your recent piercings all over... |
| Sure. |
And you get
a very obvious sounding url (and the bragging rights that come with it!).
Yes, this stuff is okay too. How about some more examples: |
| HELL
NO! |
You're a complete
F*&^Stick who decides to upload nude photos (doctored or not) of a15
year old girl...No, don't even go there. It's illegal, immoral, unethical,
tasteless, Just Plain Wrong, and by the way can get you, me, and my upstream
provider ALL in trouble. Find a server physically located in another country
for that crap, and I don't want to know about it. I don't even want LINKS
to that stuff posted. Kids getting hurt or exploited pisses me off.
I've never HAD any content of this type, and I don't intend to EVER have
any if I can help it. I'm sorry. Here's another example of something that
annoys me... |
| Fine. |
You're a member
of a medieval reenactment club, and like to post photos of you and your
motley crew... |
| Party! |
And you throw
wild parties where clothing sometimes gets shed, and you post a few photos
that show a cheescake or two, and there are no complaints from anyone because
everyone agrees it's in fun. |
| W.T.F.!?!? |
And hey, you
coincidentally like to make films about women in high-heeled shoes stepping
on small animals, to death. Hey, why not upload stills and videos
to the server? Oh wait, not only is this content also illegal in the locality
where the server resides, but it's illegal where YOU are and where the film
was made. I should note that this example specifically was never
uploaded to the server, but it happened locally to me. There are a LOT of
furries and animal activists on this box, and I side with my users (and
99.9 of the general population) in thinking that crap is disgusting. |
A
general rule of thumb is if you hold the copyright on it (if you photographed/drew/rendered
it) it's okay. Even the raciest of XXX art is okay, but you really
should make mention of the fact beforehand that yes, if you click this you're
going to see trains going into tunnels or whatever kindergarten euphemism you
care to use.
Just please be "adult"
about it.
Wow. I shouldn't make my HTML pages
after listening to The
Ranting Gryphon.
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incredibly boring document is ©2002-2010 Gushi Systems, all rights reserved.
Whatever that means.
