Stickam: Reported ties with porn biz

A former vice president at Stickam.com, a Webcam social site, told the New York Times that Stickam is managed and owned by a businessman who also owns DTI Services, “a vast network of Web sites offering live sex shows over Web cameras. “[Alex] Becker alleges that Stickam shares office space, employees and computer systems with the pornographic Web sites.” Becker also said he saw Stickam staff delete “thousands of email messages” that had been sent to the site’s customer-service and abuse-reporting addresses without reading them. For its part, the company told the Times it takes user security seriously and Becker was being “retaliatory” because of disagreement over his contract. The thing is, “several thousand of its mostly teenage members log onto the site each night to broadcast their own lives, often from their bedrooms. They put on makeshift talk shows, flirt with other members in video chat rooms, and often, if they are female, field repeated requests to take off their clothes.”