PHILADELPHIA (W.) March 26, 2007 -- The Federal District Court in Pennsylvania stuck down the Children's Online Protection Act (COPA) in the first challenge to the law Congress passed in 1998 to protect children from exposure to online pornography.
The law requires that pornographic Web sites must require adult-access codes, personal identification, or credit cards as a means of age verification to access their web sites.
Philadelphia District Court Judge Lowell A. Reed, Jr. said there were other ways to keep kids from exposure to pornographic sites that were less restrictive.
