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Originally Posted by Robbie
I'd like to make a comment. We were among the first to consult with a certain attorney about adult laws. He now is the main one in the industry. We still listen to what he has to say, but I take it with a grain of salt. His job is to make money. The only way he can make money is to go to court. He has warned us of things over the years that had us in a full panic....and then nothing ever happened.
Not to say it won't happen or that anybody should stick their heads in the sand. But we all need to be VERY low key. Eventually they WILL shut us all down. But it ain't gonna be from 2257 forms or watersports or fisting or any of the other hundred things I was warned were going to happen and never did.
You have to use common sense. The govt. has a couple of options to put us out of business. I have seen it happen locally with topless bars. The first thing they try is raiding the clubs and shutting them down. Then it all goes to court and it's ruled to be unconstitutional to shut the clubs down.
So what does the city or county or state govt. do? They start hitting the wallet. They pass law after law that requires the strip club owner to pay for a million licenses and they come up with regulations (like they did in Florida where you can't serve alcohol in a club with nudity in some places)....there's NOTHING in the constitution to stop them from that. Then if that doesn't work they go for the "nuclear option" and just pull over every car that leaves the club and takes em to jail for DUI.
The 2257 is an attempt to do something similar to that in my opinion. Make all of our sites look like shit with a bunch of legal jibberish written all over them.
But once they get done pussy footing around, they will go for the "nuclear option" which is they will shut our income off. Without credit card processors we are all done. It's just that simple. Recently this lawyer wanted me to join in a suit against IBill. That's just crazy!!! Why on earth would any of us want to go into a courtroom and EDUCATE the government on how we make money!!!!
Please believe me....we are gonna have to jump through a bunch of hoops. But they are not gonna be able to shut us down with "pornography laws" without a long long court battle which they will eventually lose. Which is what the attorneys are watering at the mouth over. No, when they decide to shut us down they will just cut off our money. Why go around busting into double wide trailers to arrest "webmasters" when all they have to do is visit CC Bill and a couple of others and we are done?
And think about this...what "if" they went another way? They could technically use the constitution to say that YES nudity is free speech and fucking bitches in the ass IS our constitutional right! BUT it is illegal to charge money for it!!! We would all be working at McDonalds! LOL!
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no, so call "porn" isn't going anywhere. too many ordinary people want to buy it.
people in $1000/night suites at AAA hotels with pay per view, and homeboxoffice, and the spice channel, etc etc etc.
but "porn" that is unpalatable to ordinary people (not mainstream fucking and sucking) but nasty degrading shit, will be forced from the landscape (for a while).