The popular chat client removed the rooms from the public directory after a T.V. studio in Houston (KPRC-TV) made a report of some of the user created rooms titles and things going on in them. In thier report men were doing lewd acts on there cams sending the images to minors in rooms with titles like "Younger Girls 4 Older Guys" and "Girls 13 And Under For Older Guys." KPRC-TV found these rooms listed as educational rooms. Before entering some of these rooms guest were required to click a Star Wars Pepsi ad.

Yahoo had to do somthing as some of thier major sponsorship started pulling thier ad's and filing complaints. Company's like Pepsi, Georgia-Pacific, State Farm Insurance, and Countrywide Mortgage are now no longer associated with Yahoo. These online ad's had boosted Yahoo's income up to $205 million. Yahoo is now facing a $10 million dollar lawsuit as they are being acused of cashing in on these user created rooms.

Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako said, "How long the chat rooms that allegedly promoted sex with minors have operated is unclear. Yahoo does not monitor the content in the chat rooms, but will close a room if it receives complaints".

"We encourage users to notify us when they believe content is in violation of our terms of service," Osako also said.

I know alot of you maybe wondering when the rooms will come back or if they ever will. Well for now they are actually still there. The rooms are just not listed in the public directory. If you know the name of the room you can simply type /join ROOMNAME

UPDATE: /join ROOMNAME no longer works. It looks like the user rooms are gone all together now...