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Seven young women in a Florida house webcast their entire lives -- from showering to working out to using the bathroom -- for 6,000 paying subscribers and dub it VoyeurDorm (www.voyeurdorm.com). So what's the problem? Tampa's city council says the Net tease is a zoning no-no: It recently ruled that the house's owner, Entertainment Network, Inc., is illegally running an adult business in a residential neighborhood. (ENI and partner Internet Entertainment Group are appealing that decision.) EW chatted by phone with VoyeurDorm resident ''Amber,'' who says she's a 19-year-old freshman at the University of South Florida earning $500 a week to star in this self-proclaimed ''adult version of The Truman Show.''
-- Kristen Baldwin
Why should VoyeurDorm be allowed to stay put?
The law defines an adult business as [something that generates]foot traffic, and that's not taking place here. The law was written before the Internet even existed. If we lose, it's going to open up the door for them to shut down any e-commerce business.
So you agree that VoyeurDorm is ''adult''?
There is adult content in this house because you do get to see every aspect of our lives, when I take a shower or when I change my clothes. But the news channels, when they come here, they make it look like I take a 24-hour shower.
Do people try to be your friends so they can come over?
Guys, yeah. We'll go out and guys will come up and [say], ''Oh, my God, you're Amber, that VoyeurDorm girl! Can I come over sometime?'' It's funny, they think that they actually have a chance of coming over.
What do your parents think?
My parents aren't happy about it, but they support me no matter what. They don't think of me being like a stripper, but they still have that parental concern. Just the fact that people can watch me take a shower, I'm sure it's not what they had in mind.
