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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
No. You do not need to list your home address. You can use a service, however, you have to have your documents there, and maintain business hours.
Meaning that if they show up on Tuesday between 12-5 (or whatever your hours are) then they can demand access to your 2257 documents, which you, or the person there, must provide.
So.. you can have another service for your home office answering service, mailing, whatever. But you must have posted business hours, and documents must be at that address.
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Some clarification needs to be made between the old and currently in use regs and the ones being fought as well.
Hours of course are "reasonable business hours" though if they are to raid you expect it to be on a Friday or a day before a legal holiday at or around 5pm to make it as near impossible for you to reach your legal council for as long as possible. Three day weekends are ideal for a late evening Friday raid.
Next only whatever to be holding your records should be an employee of the company in some fashion if not the owner or primary shooter/producer.
Keep duplicates of everything on hard copy, they will not want to wait while you photocopy shit and are just as likely to take the PC and everything else and hold it as evidence for a long fucking time. Then also keep another set off location for when they take all your shit. Good idea to do the same with DVD and or CD backups.
Remember if you use your home you are inviting them in by no choice of yours and if they see anything else a probable cause warrant is just a phone call away.
P.S. Often the local news seems to get tipped off.
Welcome to being a pornographer.
*not legal advice, seek council and I may be speaking out of my ass because I am lazy and do not feel like getting all factual.