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Originally Posted by FightThisPatent
1) i hear ya, surprising number aren't even incorporated. which means if some biz deal goes bad and the affiliate gets sued and loses, personal assets (home, car, etc) are on the line. back in the acacia crazy days, i talked to alot of affiliate webmasters, and so many were not incorporated. i can't stress enough for people to get themselves incorporated.
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thing is that in most European countries it's difficult and cost a lot of money to become incorperated. I know that in the US it's much easier and in some states dirt cheap to set up an LLC, but not in Europe, it's insane.
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Originally Posted by FightThisPatent
Many webmasters felt themselves exempt from 2257 because they were based overseas.. this kind of "protection" is only at the US government level.
It might also be an interesting coicidence that if most of P10's targets via google are non-USA-based, which would normally feel they were exempt from copyright infringement issues or US laws (of celebrity photos, of content, etc).
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I really wouldn't start mixing 2257 (focus on legal age and record keeping) & copyright issues.
The fundamentals of copyrights are more or less global, unles you're in China where 'Copyright' means 'the Right to Copy'. You just don't use other people's stuff without paying or asking permission.
2257 is totally different, the last version that is, the record keeping for secundary producers (now struck down in court it seems), the protection for minors (how will making 'asking for 2 forms of identification' illegal, going to keep minors from doing adult in a country where there is no mandatory national ID card), 'targeting US citizens' enough reason to have to comply.
Let's be honest if the EU would have made up those rules, the US would be outraged about the arrogance the EU demonstrated in dictating law for the rest of the world. 2257 is no longer about protecting anyone, it's about attacking adult.
Bush and co. want something to go wrong:
1. 17yo with fake drivers license doing adult
2. adult performer being raped/attacked/murdered, because content producer had to give model info with address to 'secundary producer' and that info got out
it seems cynical, but I fear that's what they are after