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Originally posted by NoCarrier
Why would you stop building free sites or websites? Just use SOFTCORE banners and SOFTCORE pictures.
That's how you should promote porn anyway.
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This is the way to go.. paysites and content producers all feel that hardcore images should not be used because it takes awy from the surfer turning into a member to pay to see the hardcore stuff.
When you say SOFTCORE, be sure that that images are not
1) showing masturbation (which requires 2257)
2) VERY young looking models
While non-sexually explicit pictures of very young looking models do not require 2257, you could trigger a CP inquiry as another way of shutting you down.
Attorneys have the position that you should treat every nude image with 2257 gloves on to be 100% safe. The problem with that is affiliates or free sites (who don't license content), is that they don't have access to 2257 records.
Here are some ways to look at things from a business perspective (and to protect yourself legally).
1) If the sponsor has a license to distribute "softcore" images to affiliates, use them as long as they don't include points #1 and #2 above.
2) License your own content, of the same content used by the sponsor, so that you can CAN display some hardcore images, but since you licensed it from the Content Producer, you would have your 2257 info. (some sites like sleazydream.com license content to show on the website, where others grab thumbnails from the site they are linking to, and don't have a license nor 2257 info).
This option means you paying money for content. Image sets run as low as $20, and you can legally display those "hardcore" images now.
If you are making money, you are running a business.. and businesses have expenses.... so purchasing/licensing content should not be a foreign concept.
Going overseas is not the answer, unless you completely go overseas. This means, no US hosting, no US-based credit card processor, no assets in the US. You would have to pick up and move to another country and be completely disconnected from the US. Going to Europe is not the escape place since EU is tightening up its laws, and as with Germany, some countries are very strict. You will end up going to some really off-shore locations like vanatu or isle of man, etc.
-brandon