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As Norman mentioned, there is a plan underway to use DRM to encrypt the model ID and releases, so that the documents are not blackened out, yet protected from just anyone viewing them.
This is an industry wide proposal and i am in discussions with several players to try and use technology to comply with the spirit of the law.
The legal folks will be challenging the secondary record keepers responsibility on handing of records (as it states now, it means handing over the driver's license to all webmasters, and that's very bad).
The idea is to have an industry accepted solution that can be shown to DOJ that the adult industry is understanding of the law and the intentions to protect children from abuse.
Blackened-out ID that shows only the birthdate and photos would still be handed out, so that webmasters can verify that the age is over 21.
Matrix Content and many other content providers already provide blackened ID in their sets.. the issue is whether it will be considered a tampered document. So in preparation that the new regs do become part of law, including the documentation part, then there would already have been a solution proposed and accepted by the community.
Norman has already taken alot of time and expense to digitize all of his model id and release info because there content is widely distributed, and most chances of having to deal with DOJ inquiry.
This DRM solution is not a 2257lookup.com service. 2257lookup service does play a role in assisting webmasters with identifying images, but the DRM of the model ID will be handled by a non-profit organization.
Each participating content producer would receive a program that helps them encode their images to a DRM file and they are responsible for handing out the DRM files to their webmasters.
There is not the concept of a centralized place for records, because that is clearly not allowed under 2257.
The idea is simple, have localized copies of the complete, unaltered documents, but locked up until DOJ inquiry.
There are some logistical issues to work out about how to unlock, but these are not difficult technological issues.
-brandon
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