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Originally Posted by Webby
Summarise??? 
The quick summary is it is a foul law which does not do any more towards the original purpose of protecting children as in version 1. Some call that utter hypocracy, made worse by the fact that the DOJ are using children as an excuse to attack the adult biz, when they have never enforced the 90's version ever.
It does.. and this will probably be the subject of several court cases... place models in awkward situations when their home address are leaked over the net.
It does create an unusual volume of record keeping, considering records have to be kept of blonde MILFS with protruding fronts and aged 40 or more - just to establish they are over 18.
From a legal standpoint.. it's hard to discuss, simply because all detail needs read and even then, the govt would expect people to take legal advice from lawyers who have little clue themselves.
For US webmasters - they have just been told to hit the dirt. The next stage is the handcuffing.
For foreign webmasters, well.. they still live in a free world and will flourish in the short term - before some other govt starts playing games. |
Simple.
The USA government want to stop or at least reduce porn on the net.
They have over the years done all sorts of laws to do this, and often have problems due to freedom of speech act.
The FBI has spent lots of your US dollars doing this over many years.
One method was to charge a firm that the girls were prostitutes. This failed as they said that if this was the case then everybody who bought porn would be a punter. And so you need to arrest everybody who has ever bought porn.
This is the latest attempt to ban porn, by cloaking it in child protection.
To date the main method to get at webmasters was to do them for tax evasion, as they did with Al Capone, in fact some webmasters have done more time in prison than he did.
As with other attempts to stop porn, this will become expensive for the FBI, and I suspect will not be workable long term.
But short turm, I suspect it will be the small webmasters that will be targeted first, as these will probably not have the paperwork in order, and will no have the money to fight this in court. While large firms will have legal teams.
What I also suspect may happen is that small sites may temporty close until things are sorted out.