Originally Posted by cordoba

I would estimate that come this summer, there will be at least one million adult sites online without age verification for the UK. That's a hell of a lot of work for the UK authorities to send off individual subpeonas for each site.

Of course, maybe they just wont bother unless the site in question is hardanalpornhub.co.uk with a milllion daily uk visitors. But the point is the original post in this thread was a guy asking if it was safe for him to visit the UK and would it be likely to be arrested by border control. No, unless he has a huge site that has huge UK traffic. In other words, the UK wont have a huge big brother database of every webmaster in the world who runs a porn site that does not have UK verification - that would involve issuing a million or more requests to registrars and hosts for private information.

In any case, they would have the legal power to ask for that information only for British based webmasters (i.e. you are breaking British law), and if the webmaster has whois protection, how do they know the webmaster is British based? The UK has the right to block foreign sites that do not have age verification, but unless you are a British based webmaster, you are not 'breaking the law'. Even if you are British based, from what I've read, you will be served an enforcement notice to which you will have a year or something to comply with (i.e. introduce age verification) or face a fine.