Are you going to testify in defense of 2257? Sure sounds like it in every one of your posts in this thread. Not every other country follows 2257 and they seem to be doing just fine. 2257 isn't going to stop any illegal material and it should be up to the company to choose how they keep records. You simply do not know how frustrating and vague the law is to secondary producers.
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Originally Posted by FightThisPatent
I believe the cases you are talking about was on the video side, where the video side has done more 2257 compliance than the internet side, thus being able to pull the VHS/DVDs off the shelf when the underage model was identified.
Imagine the world where 2257 is found unconstitutional... there is a big hoorah, and people go back to their businesses.
then one day, a model for a large content producer is found to be underage, and many internet websites have licensed those images/videos.
how is a website operator going to know how to take down those pics and videos?
Most will not know where to start looking.
This is where if you did do "record keeping" of where your images and videos came from on your website, you would be able to pull the content. This bit of record keeping IS part of 2257 compliance... so whether 2257 is a law or not, doing no amount of record keeping is not the answer.
Even without 2257, possession of underage images/videos on your website is a felony as well as the website is now also a distributor.
While there has not been any major under age models found on the internet side, the chances are becoming greater as more content producers enter the space of creating the content, and being sloppy in not checking IDs.
Even the most diligent content producer can be duped with a fake ID... from there, its a big snowball of trouble once that model is found out to be underage.
Fight the hell hath no fury like a woman porned!
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