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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The 2257 law is a joke. How many people have been prosecuted for ONLY 2257 violations? Who did the FBI choose to visit and inspect, Tubes and TGP/FHG and small companies they might get some violations or big companies where the odds were they would get good record keeping? And when they found slip ups in the record keeping did they prosecute or give the company time to put it right?
Yes it's a joke.
Unless you have to spend time and money keeping everything.
It's a pity though and I wish 2257 was enforced more.
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Joke or not it is still the law and there is no way of knowing if or when they will start enforcing it again. If I were running a tube site it might make me nervous to know that I had hundreds, if not thousands of videos on my site that I had no 2257 documents for.
Right now there are court rulings and all kinds of things that are holding up real 2257 inspections and enforcements and if Obama wins in November there is a pretty good chance he will be like Clinton and not fuck with us or worry too much about enforcing the laws, but you never know. Things can change quickly. A couple of rulings against this industry and a last minute push by the Bush administration to hurt us so he can try to rally the christian conservative base around McCain and we could see some inspections again.