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Originally Posted by Gaybucks
Now... if you are outside the US (live outside, work outside, servers outside) and don't care about your affiliates, you could probably get away with not bothering to comply because it is unlikely (though not impossible) that the US Justice Department is going to travel to a different country to inspect records.
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Do you think for one split second the US Justice Dept has any right to enter property and arrest anyone outside the US?
I'm sure the good ole yankees would love if the German (Or Chinese) Justice Dept turned up on US soil and started arresting US citizen webmasters for "serving" German customers porn outside of an AVS system (Or showing Chinese surfers porn at all). Everyone laughs off the mails the Germans send threatening legal action as not valid, yet those same people then expect the rest of us to comply with US laws.
It's ridiculous.
We outside the US cannot comply with 2257 because we can't publish an address the feds can come and inspect (we could publish the address but the feds can't come and inspect the docs at it). Or would you suggest we all hire US office space and keep our docs there just to keep you all happy?
Which also means hosting in the US at this point is a mute point too. Until such a time as hosts are also classed as secondary producers and are required to comply. Which still means they would have to have the docs THEMSELVES, and publish the address that THEY keep them, so we'd all have to give them the docs not keep them ourselves.
If a US Fed ever turned up here the first thing I'd do is call our law enforcement officers and have them removed. Then I'd call every media outlet I could find and let them know the Americans really did think they were the world police now.