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Originally Posted by Donfoolio
That's all true and happens a lot. But my argument is the way things are done. Of course when you look at all the things you listed it sounds scary but the fact remains that people "knee jerk" everything they are afraid of. After hearing about it as a person who makes money on the internet I'm sure that your first thought was about protecting your content. But did you think at all about what "regulation" can be capable of?
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Yes that could ban all extreme porn, they could ban open leg shots unless the viewer has proved he's over 18, there are ways.
They could just delete the domains of people who break the law time and time again.
They could say that you have to have the 2257 info before you are allowed to upload pornographic content to a server. Or at least make it so that if the content is intended for publication you have the 2257 and can prove it.
You could even make commercial domains far more regulated than they are. Today it's too easy for the scammers.
Policing it is a problem and the scammers will always fight against it. It's the people who take advantage of the laxness of the Internet to run a business that will be the ones who will have to clean up their act.
You can't stop thieves from stealing, what you can do is stop Wal-Mart from selling what they have stolen.
Don't worry the one thing they will not do is stop the money flowing from the Internet, the world can't afford it. They might stop some flowing to Nigeria though. ;)