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Written by: Tala of Men's Niche
“Before you continue, the
owner(s) of this website would like to warn you of a proposal
that would seriously limit your personal freedoms as well as
the personal freedoms of those of us who supply you with adult
entertainment.
This proposal, <a href=” http://www.regulations.gov/freddocs/04-13792.htm
“>fr25jn04-23</a>, would put serious new restrictions
on the 2257 laws that webmasters must abide by. This law prevents
the use of minors as models in adult entertainment, and is also
called the "Anti-child porn" law.
Reputable webmasters don't mind adhering to
the 2257 law as it stands right now. However, if this new proposal
passes, most webmasters, including the free sites and tgp webmasters,
are going to be forced into updating information so thoroughly
that there would be no way to continue using much of the content
that you currently see. As a matter of fact, most of your favorite
sites could very well be pulled offline forever.
This new proposal, by demanding certain information
about the models, could potentially put the models in danger
by possibly violating another law - "The Privacy Act."
You can help stop this proposal from becoming
law and thus keep your favorite websites online and active,
as well as helping to protect the models! We encourage you to
email Admin.ceos@usdoj.gov and voice your opinion. Each email
sent is another step to preventing this proposal from becoming
law. Protect your rights to enjoy adult entertainment. Send
out that email now, and please inform friends to do so as well.
Thank you”
The above was written not too long ago in the
hopes of letting a few thousand surfers know what’s going
on in the pornographic industry. They are going to be affected,
perhaps not directly, but they will be affected.
Here begins Tala’s “anti-BUllSHit”
speech. Don’t worry, it’s not a long one, but it
sure the hell makes things a little clearer for the new guys.
This proposal, 2258 (I believe that’s
what many people are calling it now), would be an incredible
detriment to the pornographic industry. Let me explain what
this thing would do to us by telling you what the new proposal,
in layman’s terms, really says.
Record-keeping is about to become a full-time
job, not just something you do in case you’re tapped for
legalities. You will, under this new proposal, be required to
have a release for each and every picture on your site. You
have to be sure that your content provider ALSO has all the
pictures numbered and cross indexed, OR YOU COULD GO TO JAIL.
This all sounds like a bad dream. TGP owners,
because of the mass amounts of pictures that can be found on
their sites, are going to have the roughest time of all. How
in the hell can that poor owner have cross indexes of every
picture on the site?
Folks, there’s hope on the horizon. One
of the best people in this industry as far as I am concerned,
Brandon of http://www.fightthepatent.com has gotten together
with some good people and created http://www.2257lookup.com
(at this time it is in pre-launch stage. Bookmark it anyway)
. An extensive F.A.Q. is located at http://www.2257lookup.com/2257ForWebmasters.html
(Thank you to Brandon and his legal beagles!)
This ingenious little site is in cooperation
with many content providers, and catalogs and indexes in order
to cross reference every photo that those providers have produced.
In this way, anytime you purchase content from those providers,
you know where the 2257 information is kept, and you can cross
reference it any time you like.
Those of you who are not in the United States,
don’t think you’re getting off easy. This affects
you as well. Those considering moving offshore to avoid this
new round of Ashcroft & Co.’s crap, you’re still
going to have to deal with this. The new proposal states, “Whoever
produces any book, magazine, periodical, film, videotape, or
other matter which ... contains one or more visual depictions
made after November 1, 1990 of actual sexually explicit conduct;
and ... is produced in whole or in part with materials which
have been mailed or shipped in interstate or foreign commerce,
or is shipped or transported or is intended for shipment or
transportation in interstate or foreign commerce;"
In layman’s terms, just because you’re
overseas somewhere doesn’t mean that your United States
clients can use your content without all the cross referencing.
Isn’t it grand how the United States can affect the world
with just one law?
You can fight this. Until August 24. 2004, you
can give your opinion by using that email address that’s
up top. Let me give it to you one more time. Admin.ceos@usdoj.gov
Send email all day, every day. Be loud, be pissed off, but be
sure to send those emails. This is going to be a huge mess that
no one wants to have to deal with.
Take care of yourselves.
Tala of Men's Niche
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