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Originally Posted by RawAlex
Moving yourself and your company offshore wouldn't be an issue. You wouldn't be breaking any laws, because these are record keeping laws that apply to US companies and producers.
The only people who ever get screwed on things like that are guys like the ones running offshore gambling, but they aren't arrested for running gambling but for moving money from US customers to their companies to allow for illegal gambling.
Viewing porn has not been made illegal, just a record keeping requirement for US based companies. You know, companies sell products outside the US without the nutrition labels on them, which are a mandated paperwork requirement of selling food in the US. Yet none of those companies go to hell because they sell food in another country without them.
You guys are thinking that 2257 makes porn illegal. It doesn't. It is a record keeping rule, it didn't make the production of porn or the transmitting of porn illegal.
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Yes, I understand what you are saying. Your example of the nutrition labels isn't really right IMO. If you move off shore and sell your product offshore, then sure you are not bound by US laws. However if you move offshore and still sell your product to people in the US, you would be in violation IMO.
The problem comes in when you sell your product to US customers. At that point you are doing business inside the US, even if your company is offshore. Considering most web sales come from inside the US, I'd say it would be pretty hard to ignore US labeling laws.
I also haven't seen any lawyer yet that supports the idea of moving offshore makes you exempt.