About SESTA/FOSTA - How to protect your account

Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) is a controversial bill that was signed into law on April 11, 2018 in the United States.

The law aims to hold websites criminally and civilly liable for promoting prostitution, sex trafficking, and pornography. It also aims to strengthen the protection and security of internet users against sexual perpetrators.

Here’s the good news! CamLust is NOT a U.S. company and SESTA-FOSTA will not influence the platform we built for webcam models. CamLust will always be adult friendly! Since the SESTA-FOSTA is a U.S. law, its effect is jurisdictional and can only be enforced on websites that are registered in the U.S.

Skype has only updated its terms of use to add “no offensive language allowed” starting May 1, 2018.The “no pornography” article is already in their terms for years, which is why it is not a big change as many models believed.

Now, more than ever, we believe that using CamLust to manage the income for Skype shows, and having a backup of the paying customers and their spending with you, will protect your professional activity as a cam girl.

For extra back-up against having your Skype account banned and losing the contacts, read a detailed post below:

Why Skype and many other major services like Reddit and CraigList are now banning anything that is related to legal “adult entertainment”?

Major services like Reddit and CraigList have been banned by Skype pursuant to the rules on SESTA-FOSTA, which aims to control and police sex trafficking online.

Since SESTA-FOSTA subjects the website to liabilities for ALL the content found on its servers regardless of who uploaded the content, legal adult websites have also suffered the consequences.

This means that if somebody uploads an illegal content (ex. minors, sex trafficking, etc.) on Google Drive, the latter is exposed to a very big risk of being legally penalized.

How do businesses protect themselves from the SESTA-FOSTA?

Some companies have closed down their entire services/categories. Other companies have updated their Terms of Usage of the Services (TOS) to allow them to INVESTIGATE and then BAN the account holder and his content.

What did Microsoft/Skype say and what will they do?

In view of the SESTA-FOSTA, Microsoft/Skype has updated their TOS.   They modified their terms so they will have the right to investigate your account and content when you are flagged ((by other users or algorithms – maybe).

In an interview by The Register A Redmond spokesperson sent the following answer: 

 "We are committed to providing our customers with safe and secure experiences while using our services. The recent changes to the Microsoft Service Agreement’s Code of Conduct provide transparency on how we respond to customer reports of inappropriate public content."

  The keywords here are: “customer reports” and “public content”.

What Microsoft/Skype can technically do and how does this influence the work of Skype cam-girls?

We expect that Skype will add new methods for its own users to report other Skype users. We know that Skype video/audio calls & text are encrypted but not yet end-to-end encrypted. This means that people can not access the content of your video/audio call but Skype can investigate and find on its servers when and for how long you had skype calls with other users. And until end-to-end encryption will be available by default, Skype can access a Skype video/audio conversation if they start to “listen” from the start of the call (this means that you were reported and they are listening to you in particular. We assume.). We also expect Skype – considering the NSA scandal from the past –  not to start to record billions of skype to skype call-hours on its servers, because technically and business-wise this does not make sense.

    In a nutshell, this means that we do not expect many things to change for Skype and its users – technically. Just that they are covering themselves legally and upgrading the reporting mechanism.

How can you protect your Skype related cam-girl business? What can you do?

Before May 1st nobody can predict how Skype platform will react and what will be the impact of any new change. But if you are a CamLust cam girl that is building a strong business using Skype you have at least the following back-up for the worst case scenario if you get your Skype account banned:

1. Make sure you have a CamLust account because all the payments, transactions and call history with paying customers are backed up by our own servers. This information cannot be deleted by Skype. Do note that we are not an AMERICAN company and we are an adult friendly website!

2. Make sure to do a back-up of all your Skype contacts from time-to-time. Learn how to export your Skype contacts here. You can import your contacts to another Skype account, which you owned.

3. In case your Skype account gets banned after being reported, your only option is to create a new Skype account and change your Skype ID in your CamLust account. You can check more information on how to avoid getting banned by Microsoft Skype here.

4. As an extra safety measure, you should not make your Skype ID publicly available. Change your settings on CamLust to only show your profile to members with funds and increase your protection from freeloaders who might report your information to Skype.

In conclusion, we say to all our models using the live-cam services on Skype to not worry too much about the new Skype terms. As long as what you are doing is legal, you are SAFE. Also make sure that you have followed our suggestions above to ensure your utmost security and protection from Skype’s new terms and condition.

We at CamLust do not expect many things to change for Skype and its users – technically. They are simply trying to be legally compliant by upgrading their reporting mechanism. Overall, there is nothing you should worry about.