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As some other people have said, how do you enforce age verification. ? Credit cards don't work now. Current systems in place are not sufficient or foolproof enough. There would have to be a new approach.
Secondly, as a UK webmaster, I am of the opinion that this would be a major boost for my business. It wouldn't take long for US surfers to learn how to use Euro search engines/hosts/link sites/TGP's etc. to find their free goodies. (It seems US webmasters can't use Euro resources for this as they make reference to 'foreign').
And lastly, those that think the Euro countries would rush to copy this law are living in dreamland. The US has a particularly nasty type of religious zealot you let into politics over there that we just don't have. Add to that, try getting a law like this passed in some of the more sexually liberal Euro countries such as Holland etc. and you can see that the chances of the EU, for example, actually passing a law like this is pretty remote. At the very least it would take years.
Personally I wouldn't mind if this law covered the whole world, but if it's just restricted to the US, that's heaven from a purely business point of view.
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