I have read fully the recent US laws pertaining to the 2257 and the surrounding areas... The whole reason for the 2257 is to state who has the required documentation and that such is easy to find so that those who are the "actors" could be checked up on as to prevent CP... Considering many here at GFY will argue with me... and most who run tgps & mgps could not be bothered to include a simple 2257 webpage, that is required under the US
FEDERAL law(s), I find it a bit hard to believe that stating that I know about 1% somewhat strange... considering they are breaking many
FEDERAL law(s)...
I do find the 2257 wording to be somewhat convoluted and the interpretations by many webmasters who make statements without reading their own laws as to be what causes much of the problems...
What is so hard as to indicate, if you are not the person(s) that created "content", as to provide a address of those who you have bought the content from? If you had bought content; those who had sold such to you would be under legal requirement as to either provide you with the actual info on the "actors" or keep such records at their place of business for examination when required by law... If you are an associate of a adult program then the company who you are promoting is required as to keep and to make available the 2257 records when required...
If you are the people who film content then yea... of course you need to have the "actors" info for legal reasons... but not all do such...
Since the terms "primary producer" and "secondary producer" are seen under US law(s) is seen as being equal... that means everyone (US) who displays adult content must follow the 2257 and surrounding laws and regulations...
Now the problems that I see is that the adult graphics on many adult websites ( tgps / mgps ) plus Blogs mainly do not indicate those displayed in such graphics that is required under US law. thumbs, banners and misc. graphics must be accounted for... since most who run tgp & mgp pus adult Blogs feel they are not responsible they do not follow the US
FEDERAL law(s)...
For those who could not care one way or the other... to make things as complex as possible for other adult webmasters is everything... because that means that there is less people who know how to setup adult sites and that means less competition and therefor more money for themselves...
One last point... if comprehension is an issue then hire some legal help.
Educate yourselves people!,
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