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This law is going to have a devestating effect on the US industry.
Firtly the 90% of affilaites that send 10% of traffic will not be able to comply with the address thing. The vast number of people who run a small site are in the same position. They are part timers and low earners who will probably turn away from the business or ignore the law and wait it out.
Then there are models. Some sponsors are talking about handing out documents to affilaites. Check in the license where that's allowed. You will find many of them allow you to give out content but few allow you to give out documents, it might say that or "Revealing the models real name"
And let's say for a few months it does happen, or people ignore the license. How long before the shit hits the fan and it becomes widely known that any clown who asks can get a girls ID from a sponsor?
Then expect models and models agents to start saying model releases have to specify NO INTERNET PUBLICATION. It will become very hard to find models who are prepared to let their personal IDs be distributed like candy.
The EU has privacy laws, so forget about EU content, in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and many more countries supplying porn to the Net it's illegal to produce porn. So forget about those countries allowing you to give away models IDs.
There will be a few content providers who will allow documents to be given out. They will be bottom of the barrel, low quality, low production and becasue of the supply/demand rules high prices. Not going to do a lot for your traffic is it?
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