Fucking-a..
Ya know for the life of me I cannot see why people get so caught up in these threads of 2257, and .xxx. I'm starting to believe the main posters of the 10-100 threads like this are the surfers and small fries who will either be run out of business when anything requiring a nickel from their handful of sign ups a month takes away from their beer money.
The government, and politicians can talk all they fucking want to about shit effecting this industry, or anything else. Until it passes, who fucking cares. Even if it passes, you are dealing with an entire INDUSTRY which will bite back (i.e. lawsuits) contesting any new regulations the same as a MIcro$oft, oil companies, or anything else would. This industry makes more than enough money as a whole, and has plenty of serious players to take these matters up. So until the dust settles, stop fucking bitching about this shit!
Just as many laws on the books, you are not going to be able to force an entire INDUSTRY to go to any .xxx domain. Maybe you can grandfather it, much like telephone numbers with a new area code, or new people who enter the business. But you are not going to make a business give up their dot com's. Period.
Everything that is being talked about now, regardless of which groups, companies, or people trying to get rich off these ideas will have ALL of these issues challenged in court. Whether under free speech, or under the fact they are trying to regulate an ENTIRE INDUSTRY. You've seen how effective the government is in regulation of anything else in the United States, or abroad.
Another thing, all this fucking bullshit over 2257.. Do you honestly think the DOJ is just sitting around salavating for some new law to go into place so they can go after anyone, and everyone in non-compliance within the porn industry?
How many times do you hear about people getting caught, arrested, or have the DOJ or any other acronym knocking on their doors now? Right. Next to none, and normally the biggest offenders. Do you honestly think the DOJ has nothing better to do with world terror, and all the shit going on to chase down every pornographer, webmasters, and so on?? Ridiculous.
Face the fact that these things do not mean jack shit until passed by Congress, and all of the court cases settled. The only people who should be worried about this kinda bullshit are people who are probably doing a lot more than breaking the 2257 to begin with. Or are one industry change from going back to flipping a burger.