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Originally Posted by VenusBlogger
DMCA is the new 2257...
BTW, do people still submit galleries?
90% of TGPs and MGPs from year 2005 now show a SEDO PAGE or are 404 or expired domains.
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1. Nobody can go to jail for violating DMCA, become a convicted felon, lose the right to vote or the right to own firearms. There is no parallel at all.
2. All the laws must be considered by the smart webmaster who wishes to avoid risk, not just the laws that are currently hot on the boards. It's rare to find a post about child pornography laws on the boards, posts that talk about Knox and Dost and the other significant cases that define what child pornography is - and in fact what the scope of Section 2257's obligations are to _adult_ material. Whether they get attention here or anywhere doesn't matter. Try telling an FBI Agent that the law should not apply to you because no one ever explained it on GFY. He'll go back and tell that one to his co-workers in the office! A smart and careful webmaster/developer understands those cases and the statute they apply to and makes his plans and implementation to comply with the law. A webmaster/developer who depends on the law du jour of interest to the boards to make his plans may discover himself to be in violation of laws that can destroy him, and he cannot be called "smart".
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Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. . . Restraint in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue.
Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964