There will still be nude contend on adult dating sites.
Within the current 2257 regulations right now the user submitted content makes us, as an adult personals site, a secondary producer. The updated regulations on the table right now that enforce stronger regulations on secondary producers would definatly have an effect on the online industry as a whole. Yahoo for example does not only have a problem with their personals, but also their groups, and geocities pages, etc.
We have a validation feature on our site in which users who want to validate their profile pics can send in a copy of their ID. It's actually more popular than you would think, but it's my understanding (and I say this not as a lawyer) that just a photocopied ID alone will not qualify as proper documentation for the pending 2257 regulations.
If these pass, yes, there will be a loss of some of the more hardcore user submitted content- but many members use pics that they have taken themselves, full frontal shots, etc, that are not considered hardcore content.
Because we have both user submitted content and professionally produced content (photo galleries, videos, etc) we're already familliar with the work involved with becomming 2257 compliant. The user thumbnails for the rank me tool and integrated personals features are already compliant with the pending legislation, and the geotargeted ads are in the works. It is important, especially with the volume of user submitted content we posess, that we are proactive in our approach to dealing with this topic.
Sorry for the late response, but I'm just adjusting back to the eastern time zone from Cybernext.
