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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
I can easily grasp what your fears are. The thing is the no pobox requirement has been in effect since nearly all of us started anyways. We happened to choose porn as an occupation, we were not forced into it or whatnot. The rules were there and we were supposed to follow them all along. Many just never did, and or they were off the hook because they were just secondary producers (just advertisers).
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It was in effect when I started too, but there was no history of any inspections being done, very few people were even pretending to comply with the regs, and it seemed like a dead issue and worth the risk which was much smaller than it seems to be today. Also (I know this is a trifle off-topic) there was none of this bullshit about secondary producers being handed models id's -- somehow I doubt that most models go into this knowing the full risks to their privacy in terms of their real names, social security numbers, and addresses being provided to hundreds and thousands of strangers.
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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
The issues do not stop at gay, transgendered, etc. We get hate email and actual letters to our offices all of the fucking time. Mostly aimed at our interracial stuff. Everything from run of the mill hate mail to straight out death threats. These people of course know our office address and could just as easily visit as they sent those letters. We just deal with it and put them all in their own little area. Again we choose porn.
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Do you honestly think your vulnerability level and risk of being the victim of a violent hate crime, stalking, or rape is the same as a woman's or a tranny's? But seriously -- my point here is not to *complain* about the risks, but say that this issue should be a bigger talking point in terms of fighting regulations that are supposed to make people safer but in fact put many people in danger, and also expose what could arguably be a way (or be perceived as a way) to punish sex workers (models, indie pornographers, etc.) and queer people (the people our society refuses to protect against hate crimes and essentially condones violence against) by putting them in danger totally unnecessarily when they could instead subpoena our addresses from billing companies and have to provide a valid reason to inspect our records. Looking at it this way makes the govt regs and inspections seem much more nefarious than arguing, "oh poor me I don't have time to maintain a database of all the people I exploit" which isn't the kind of argument that will ever generate much sympathy.
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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
I just can not get bent out of shape because they want ma and pa porn companies that sprung up all over the US out of their homes to have to list their custodial address which can not be a post office. That was never one of the 2257 issues I had.
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That's what I'm saying; most primary producers have never had this issue. I'm not saying you should get bent out of shape on behalf of indies like myself, I'm just saying that people could at least PRETEND to because using real people who are actually endangered by the regs could generate a lot better and more persuasive arguments against those regulations than just representing straight white guys making millions off the pussies of a bunch of anonymous girls. Also, it would be nice to have the mom and pop people represented more to appeal to the old-school real Republicans of people trying to make an honest living running small businesses and being unduly punished and regulated to the point where they cannot even BE in the business because they'd have to raise the cost of renting an office and secretary to sit in it so they can protect their families from knocks on the door from stangers.
It's just an underrepresented perspective, that's all. I hear what you're saying, my intention isn't to whine, but to point out that these types of arguments are way more compelling, I think, than the ones getting/that got the most press.