Ĭhristian hard rock band Underoath used Stickam to stream live from their recording studio for two months while they recorded their album Lost In The Sound Of Separation, racking up over 1.8 million live views.
On August 28, 2012, Andrew hosted the chat live from backstage at Conan O'Brien's TV show, Conan. streamed weekly "Party Chats" on Stickam for over two years straight. Artists that went live on Stickam included Andrew W.K., Black Veil Brides, and Christofer Drew. Content Bands and musicians Ī few musicians used Stickam to stream live performances and band chats. StreamAPI was a customizable white label service that allowed customers to add live streaming to their website or application with no development experience required.
The company also released a white label service called StreamAPI (formerly Stickam API) in 2008. The VIP program gave users ad-free usage as well as being featured on the "who's live" page, 25 coins from the shuffle marketplace and a VIP badge on the user's profile picture. Stickam had as of August 2012 a VIP user program. This feature was created to help stickam users increase their YouTube followers. Stickam calls this feature "fangating" and first deployed it on a concert event that was sponsored by Levi's Jeans. Broadcasters can further restrict their rooms by requiring viewers to like their Facebook page, follow their Twitter, or subscribe to their YouTube channel in order to view the stream or in order to participate in the chat. Broadcasters on Stickam can allow their friends and followers to log into their chat rooms by using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Myspace, or Gmail. Stickam launched its social login feature at VidCon 2012 (where Stickam had teamed with Maker Studios to live stream VidCon 2012). Stickam's player and live stream abilities are recognized in a Variety Magazine article as a "more customizable player" that has the ability to engage fans in a powerful way using their virtual face-to-face interaction. Stickam's live video players came with built-in chat capabilities, allowing both text chat and optional video chat.
It was also possible to connect HD and other cameras, mixers, and audio feeds to send HD and professional broadcast streams out via Stickam.
Retrieved 25 January 2012.Anyone could "go live" and broadcast live video on Stickam from their computer, iPhone or iPad within seconds. "Anonymous releases IP addresses of alleged child porn viewers". "Anonymous takes down darknet child porn site on Tor network". : Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Retrieved 4 December 2021 – via University of North Texas Libraries. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2021. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service. ^ "Coroners and Justice Act 2009 Part 2 Chapter 2 "Images of Children" ".^ "18 USC § 2256 - Definitions for chapter".Archived from the original on 10 June 2013. ^ a b "Back in booming Lolita City: the online child pornography community is thriving".
Lolita City was taken offline for a short time in a denial-of-service attack by Anonymous. Anonymous said that it had found the site via The Hidden Wiki, and that it contained over 100 gigabytes of child pornography. Anonymous published in a pastebin link what it claimed were the user names of 1,589 members of Lolita City, including membership time, and number of images uploaded. In October 2011, the hacktivist collective Anonymous launched "Operation Darknet", in an attempt to disrupt the activities of child porn sites accessed through hidden services. 2011 anti-child porn operation by Anonymous Videos had been available on the site since November 2012. As of June 2013, the website hosted about 1.4 million pictures. The site included softcore and hardcore images, and the subjects ranged from near-newborns and toddlers to 17-year-olds and included both boys and girls. Some of the photographers were professionals, others were hobbyists. Like adult pornography sites, Lolita City featured and promoted specific models whom fans could follow. onion pseudo top-level domain and could be accessed only via the Tor network. : 6 Background Īs a hidden service, Lolita City operated through the.
The website was hosted by Freedom Hosting, a defunct Tor based web hosting provider. The site hosted child pornography images and videos of underage males and females ranging up to 17 years of age (18 is the minimum legal age in many jurisdictions, including the US, for a person to appear in pornography). Lolita City was a website that used hidden services available through the Tor network. Defunct child pornography website Lolita City