Chatroulette.com, the Webcam chat Web site, is cracking down on indecent behavior among its users.

"Chatroulette was great in the first honeymoon days after it was launched, before it was discovered by strange people who started to abuse the true freedom and democratic nature of the service," said Andrey Ternovskiy, the Web site's founder, in a blog post.

Ternovskiy says that Chatroulette has been collecting online addresses as well as video screenshots that "prove wrong behavior."

Chatroulette posted a message on its home page. The message reads, "Broadcasting inappropriate content to minors is a violation of both US and UN law." The Web site also notes that it is cooperating with law enforcement.

"Luckily we all live in a real world, and we can easily apply the laws of a real world even on an Internet application," added Ternovskiy.

"I hope that with help of criminal law we can finally get the problem out of our shoulders and get existing organizations which usually solve these kinds of problems to help us."

Ternovskiy, a Russian teenager who founded the Web site last November, says that "we've blocked thousands of IP addresses, reported offenders and service seems to be much cleaner than before."