04-09-2012, 07:03 PM
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1. There is no Nuclear Option Robbie. Congressional Representatives are not going to be donning "we love porn" campaign buttons. Porn is only tolerated for reason of Federal Court decisions. The more likely scenario is that the lawmakers are happy watching the porn industry cannibalize itself.
2. §2257 is a US Law and it stops at US borders. Our company is Dutch we only recognize Dutch Laws and EU Parliamentary directives. U.S.C. 18 §2257 is in contradiction to The European Union Directive on Data Protection that is our law -- we can only provide information by a Dutch Court's order to do otherwise is unlawful in our domicile. That doesn't mean we don't have proper identification documents and model releases -- it means that they are confidential unless subject to release by the Dutch Court's order.
Few of the "tube" type sites are located in the USA and if their servers are they only have to look to the recent events in the megaupload.com matter to get the big picture. §2257 will have little affect on tube sites.
3. In the litigation of COPA it was found that there was no reliable way to restrict explicit adult content on the Internet to "adults only." Short of issuing everyone an Internet verifiable national ID card, with even that being ineffective as international commerce would be restricted, there is no way that access to adult pornography in the USA can be restricted constitutionally.
4. Bottom line, the old ways have already been destroyed. Destroying the destroyers with new laws is laughable. The only remedy to the situation is a new disruptive innovation.
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