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US government is trying to kill porn via beaurocracyThe 2257 rules are supposed to help prevent child pornography by ensuring that all performers are over 18, but that's not what this is about. The US government is clearly planning to use this law to prosecute its anti-sex agenda by making the producers of porn wade through a beaurocratic nightmare. The new changes require adult webmasters to create huge databases cross referencing every photo they publish with the URL of every website and the name, aliases, DOB - and address - of the porn performer (the stalkers will love this). It has to be backdated to 1995. It also requires that small time webmasters who work from home put their HOME address on each website they make. Inspectors can turn up without warning and search a person's hard drive. If you make an error... it's 5 years in jail. Obscenity laws clearly weren't working for the Bush government, so they're going to do their best to make life difficult for pornographers in the hope of killing them off that way. This law may well clean up the industry a little by scaring away some of the scammers, but what really sucks about it is that it will negatively effect the small-timers who are trying to make porn better. They're honest, they're not trying to rip people off or exploit children, but they're the ones who will bear the brunt of this. The big companies - the ones who produce all that really awful boring mainstream porn - probably won't have a hard time coping with this. They've got the money and people to do it. But Mr and Mrs Average who run their own little amateur site from their back room now have to worry about crazed fundamentalists picketing their house, or stalkers knocking on their door. How can the US overcome it's ingrained anti-sex mentality when those who are trying to be positive and honest about sex are treated as criminals? There will be legal challenges of course, and it will require an awful lot of manpower for the government to actually enforce their rules adequately - manpower that could probably be better used fighting real crime. Ah well. We'll roll with the punches, I guess. Posted: Wednesday 25th May 2005, 2:13 AM Back to the Blog
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