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Mutt · 07-17-2004, 06:26 AM

i guess i was burying my head in the sand on this, i'd heard about this shit and thought they were proposed changes and somebody sane would make this somewhat workable and reasonable. This is a nightmare. Anybody in this industry tells you they are ready for this is a liar because nobody is. You are talking about literally 100's and 100's of man hours to do what's required. What they're attempting to do has little to with protecting children and everything to do with making it so hard for pornographers to do business some will give up and others they'll make examples of and throw in jail.

i bet 90% of the content on anybody's server unless you're a Nasty Dollars type operation with all your own content is now useless if you don't want to risk going to jail. good luck rounding up all the 2257 from all the content providers for all the content you have on your servers - they are requiring you have a database cross-referencing every image you publish. when they come knocking you can't go 'well i have all my 2257 information in this file cabinet or on this hard drive, give me a few hours and I'll trace that photo' - you don't have a system in place and the information ready you're out of luck.

i really think for some people the best thing is either to play russian roulette and ignore it or start over - maybe write a script to find out the name of every jpeg and movie file on a server and replace it all with content you do have 2257 releases for.

i can't believe the ACLU or the Free Speech Coalition hasn't done anything yet, unless somebody gets into court fast this is going down.

Think about the online adult video stores with thousands and thousands of box cover jpegs, some even have screencaps - useless now, can't publish them. i'm not even sure a messageboard like GFY will be able to allow people to post sex pics.

the only good thing i can think of is that content thieves now have something more serious to worry about than a C & D.

07-17-2004, 06:26 AM
Mutt Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 34,431	i guess i was burying my head in the sand on this, i'd heard about this shit and thought they were proposed changes and somebody sane would make this somewhat workable and reasonable. This is a nightmare. Anybody in this industry tells you they are ready for this is a liar because nobody is. You are talking about literally 100's and 100's of man hours to do what's required. What they're attempting to do has little to with protecting children and everything to do with making it so hard for pornographers to do business some will give up and others they'll make examples of and throw in jail. i bet 90% of the content on anybody's server unless you're a Nasty Dollars type operation with all your own content is now useless if you don't want to risk going to jail. good luck rounding up all the 2257 from all the content providers for all the content you have on your servers - they are requiring you have a database cross-referencing every image you publish. when they come knocking you can't go 'well i have all my 2257 information in this file cabinet or on this hard drive, give me a few hours and I'll trace that photo' - you don't have a system in place and the information ready you're out of luck. i really think for some people the best thing is either to play russian roulette and ignore it or start over - maybe write a script to find out the name of every jpeg and movie file on a server and replace it all with content you do have 2257 releases for. i can't believe the ACLU or the Free Speech Coalition hasn't done anything yet, unless somebody gets into court fast this is going down. Think about the online adult video stores with thousands and thousands of box cover jpegs, some even have screencaps - useless now, can't publish them. i'm not even sure a messageboard like GFY will be able to allow people to post sex pics. the only good thing i can think of is that content thieves now have something more serious to worry about than a C & D.