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My take on the new record keeping laws.
I have always kept models records, even if a girl turns up for a casting we ask what IDs she has. If she says none and looks anything like under 18 we don't take nude pictures of her.
I lived and worked through the Traci Lords scandal, know guys who worked with her and know the only thing that kept them out of prison was she had IDs. Faked but she did have them.
The new laws will not cost the industry one sign up, might cost a few sponsors but not the industry as a whole.
The industry will adapt, there are a few very obvious alternatives to giving thousands of affiliates models IDs. Sponsors who do could find themselves selling second rate content.
Good models are getting tougher and tougher to find because girls now know their friends and family have a very good chance of finding out what they are doing. Start giving out copies of their ID to any affiliate and you're going to find the pool of models dwindles fast.
How many affiliates, and what is their traffic worth, live and work in the US? I know a few big programs and few have anything but the big affiliates living in the US. Let's face it the time scale and odds on a noob affiliate reaching 5 sales a day are both long. $150 a day is not a big wage and I suspect many earn less.
If the minnows leave the traffic will stay. Webmasters do not CREATE traffic. They direct existing traffic. If half the guys making 3 or less sign ups a day left the business the other half left would start making 6 a day. OK the figures may not be 100% but the theory is right.
Some programs may start giving IDs out to any affiliate, because they are desperate or see it as an opportunity. Wait till their models find out.
Maybe the affiliate model will change. This is what I suspect and have a few ideas I am discussing. Much better than giving models IDs to any affiliate who asks. And much better than affiliates having to keep the documents.
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