08-19-2004, 07:22 AM
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Originally posted by FightThisPatent
Alot of overseas companies host in the US due to most of the paying customers being here, bandwidth pipes, etc.. but with your content hosted here, you are under US jurisdiction for 2257.
Porn is not illegal (at least not right now), so running a website with "sexually explicit" content is fine, as long as you COMPLY with the law.
This means licensing your content (so you don't get hit with copyright infringement) and having 2257 records for pictures you display.
I have talked with many sponsors and content producers, they aren't that hysterical about 2257 because they have or will be getting their records in order.
Sites that use "free" content do have a major concern, since they don't license the images, therefore, don't have 2257 info.
As a small side tangent, if you accept "free" content from sponsors, you really need to be sure that this content was truly allowed to be shared. Some content producers DO NOT allow this kind of handing out of images, and you could end up getting nailed for copyright infringement, where you thought it was "legal" in accepting the "free" content.
If a content producer does allow sponsors to handout content, then with the new regulations going into effect, it would simply mean that sponsors would end up handing out the 2257 info as well (easier said than done).
I don't know what kind of site you run, but looking at things generically, if you are going to show hardcore (sexually explicit) images, you need to have 2257 records. If you license the content, you have a better chance of getting that 2257 info, than getting it with the "free" content from a sponsor.
With your servers here in the US, they can shutdown the site and then freeze any US-based accounts you have. While they can't grab ya in Australia, your US-based assets would be subject to seizure.
-brandon
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Thank you, this answers my question as well. |
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