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First off, I would have to say anyone using a PO Box / Mail drop should take notice: If the man comes looking, you are fucked. It wouldn't take the man much effort to pull a list of UPS stories, mailboxes etc, and other known drop boxes and run them against 2257 record addresses. If you are doing this, now would be a very good time to fix your shit.
Second, the 20 hour rule is an interesting problem, and something that if he is in fact charged with should be fought in a court of law. If you are a company that produces one single scene and sells it to another company to distribute, you then become required to keep 20 hours a week of regular office hours to be available for record inspection for your one movie (and two performers).
That is unduely burdensome on small producers, part time companies, and occassional producers. It would have the effect of limiting free speech, because unless you had the intention of making an ongoing business of shooting porn, you wouldn't should just a single set.
I hope the lawyers are all over this like a dirty shirt. That is certainly part of the law that needs to be challenged. I cannot find any other industry where the government mandates minimum hours of operation, to be available for an inspection of records that might come once a year... 1000 hours for a 1 hour inspection. That is incredibly burdensome.
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