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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
....you let the worst of the worst in this industry pick a fight on your behalf. Brilliant! Are you fucking kidding me? Eventually you will lose these fights... And once you finally lose... you will lose big because the fight against you will never stop and you don't have the brains or foresight to organize and defend yourselves, set standards and police yourselves.
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You make some interesting and valid points -- but how exactly does the industry go about 'picking' its battles with respect to obscenity prosecutions? The government decides whom to indict, and the lawyers involved have a professional, ethical and legal obligation to defend their clients, and to do so vigorously. The industry's support for people who get indicted is typically rhetorical/verbal in nature, only (it's not like we're all lining up to contribute to the Max Hardcore Defense Fund here, after all....)
When it comes to self-policing, what would you suggest? In an age where becoming a "producer" means having a camera and a means to upload content to the Internet, true self-policing of the industry is a pretty complex and difficult task, to say the least, particularly once you consider the varying international laws and standards.
Should billing companies refuse to process for sites that offer content that is likely to be found legally obscene? (They already do this, to some extent) Should the industry actively "boycott" businesses that offer such content? If that's the plan, where do we draw the line, and who does the drawing of the line, so to speak?
It sounds like what you are advocating is setting up a list of "best practices," establishing a trade organization around those best practices, and enforcing those best practices by excluding and ostracizing producers who do not conform with the ground rules as set by the trade organization... is that about right? Setting aside for a moment the question of whether this industry
CAN be motivated to do it, is that essentially what you think needs to happen?