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Originally Posted by scottybuzz
The girls I promote are american. My hosting is american.
Do I need to have copies of the 2257 law. Also I would love to know when this comes into effect.
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You do business in the US, therefore you are governed by US law. Remove your hosting and you are still left with the potential consequences of selling to US customers and any other business you do in the US. But the more you distance yourself, the more you limit your risk.
Although the US has (for want of a better word) "friendly" law enforcement arrangements with a lot of countries, it seems impossible that your risk is not dramatically lower than for a US-based webmaster. But right now we cannot quantify the risk to anyone because we do not know what kind of webmaster the FBI will target, nor how many cases they can/will pursue.
AFAIK there were no prosecutions under the original 2257 law, but Ashcroft excusing himself to Congress by claiming that the original law wasn't tough enough, is exactly what caused the flurry of activity over the past 18 months or so. In the present political climate and after two sets of amendments, I don't see an Attorney General being able to go back (he has to report to Congress once a year on how many investigations have been done and how many cases are in progress) and report no activity. But whether 100 cases or 10,000 cases will be deemed sufficient is anyone's guess.
The amended 2257 laws putting obligations onto "secondary" producers came into effect last summer...