GoFuckYourself.com - Adult Webmaster Forum - New German Internet Indecency Law. Heads Up!

Hello Wasteland,

let me try to lighten ye up!

...heard a presentation from a German webmaster / content provider about the new law in Germany that requires AVS on all adult sites, including paysites prior to the tour. This is not a hit-and-run adult check verification, but requires the surfer to fax a copy of their driver's license or passport to the webmaster to be granted a password to view the site.

Even more! We have kind of a FTC called KJM (Commission on Youth Media Protection) which requires a face-to-face control when accessing an adult site in Germany at least once before one accesses the first site.

The german "expert" on this that spoke in Amsterdam indicated that non-german webmasters could simply "ignore" this law, but to be prepared to be arrested if entering germany.

Right he is! You can't possibly care about what a German authority claims! Our prosecutors are quite busy with porn right now but I don't think they'd endanger the US - German relationship with arresting tourists who happen to own a porn site in the USA...

As luck would have it, I arrived home and today opened my letter from "Bundesprufstelle Fur Jugendgefardenede Medien" that pretty much read like a "cease and desist" order for having a website accessible in Germany.

Yes, and here you see the perversion in this. The Federal Bureau for Media Harmful for the Youth (or so) really thinks that the Internet is something which can be regulated from Germany alone.

"Distributors of this content are no longer perrmitted to sell, rent out or even present this object or to broadcast it on the internet. The same goes for advertising the content. Violations of these restrictions will be punished under German jursidiction."

Yeah, yeah.

"The spreading of pornographic content and other harmful media via the internet is a criminal offense under German jurisdiction."

Yeah, yeah. Actually, nobody EVER proved that pornography is harmful to anybody.

Please do not be overly alarmed. I'd rather suggest making German sites using the German language and "German content" in order to make profit in Germany.

Questions? Mail me!

Regards,

Daniel Kötz
http://www.koetzlaw.de