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Originally Posted by NaughtyAce
We only ask our affiliates to sign a contract with us to protect the records that we are giving you and that you place a link to a 2257 statement from your root domain.
We are not asking for anything out of the ordinary or anything that is not already necessary to comply with the law.
I'm always open for criticism, but anything we ask of our affiliates has been carefully reviewed by our attorneys to ensure that our company is safe.
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The first part to becoming a Gold affiliate is signing a contract with us which states that you are complying with the 18 U.S.C. law.
You should have left it at that and worded it so that it says "as it applies to your business" which leaves room for the difference in interpretations between all the different lawyers.
Secondly, you will need to post a hyperlink to the page containing your 2257 information, similar to our own. This hyper-link must be linked from the bottom of any promotional pages or pages that you create, own or operate that contain sexually explicit images or content.
That's not what the law said. In fact, if the government was going to be that anal, I suspect you guys wouldn't be compliant anyway as the law was very specific about the wording and size that the link was to be.
The page that the hyper-link goes to must contain your business address where you will be maintaining the 2257 records. P.O. Boxes are not acceptable.
You're requirements don't have any provisions for foreign WMs. i.e there's no way I'm going to list my address. They can contact me to make arrangements to visit if they want, just as they'd have to do if the person is "part time".
You're lawyer has gone overboard to protect you from the slim chance that the government might come after you for someone else not meeting their definition of the law.
Fact is, you have plenty of WMs that are breaking that agreement right now. But I doubt you're cancelling their accounts but are instead ignoring the issue. In my mind, it seems to me your lawyer has made it even worse for you. As you've said you will audit your affiliates to ensure they're complying.. Since many aren't, I would think you'd end up being more fucked than if you simply said your afiliates must comply and left it at that.
I was going to do what probably most of you affiliates did, sign the contract and then not follow it anyway. How may of your affiliates have their "real" addresses on their 2257 page and not some made up one? But it's not worth the risk to me to generate a bunch of SE traffic to you and then have you pull the plug based on some "opinions" about what the law really means, especially since I'm a foreign WM.