The 2257 is enforced by the DOJ. With Ashhahahahaha gone, they'll have more important things to do then arrest people on obscure bookkeeping laws.

The question of another COPA act rising though is a concern.

Within 24 hours of this law taking effect someone will sue and just like COPA there will be an injunction to stop it from becoming enforcable until it runs through the courts. So far COPA is on year 6.

If the 2257 turns out to be a worst case scenerio - we would have been much better off with COPA passing, not that the AG wouldn't have followed that up the a 2257 coup de gras.

Bingo...

Follow the rules and you will be OK

I am doing nothing. 26 21.67%
I live outside the US. This does not affect me. 29 24.17%

classic :)

Whatup Roger?

Yeah, the conundrum is that the rule set forth are damn near impossible to follow. Do you have one set on content that doesn't have 2 IDS? Are you at the office all day for an inspection? Is all of your record cross-referenced, alphabetical, and in 11 point type?

Then you are not in compliance.

its gonna suck for us thats for sure

I agree.

The only way to ease this back is to get Bush out of office in November. Had 9/11 not happened, we would be elbow deep in this years ago.

I wish I got to meet you when you were in Atlanta Jay you seem like a really cool guy.

Yeah, I figured with a tony404 handle that you were an ATAlien. I live in Cali now, but you had 14 years to meet me in the ATL - LOL.

Vote Kerry. :)

bump

My mind is made up on how I will handle my 2257 issues. I spoke, at length, and very expensively to one of the top 1st amendment guys that successfully defended Max Hardcore. You can too for $275 / hr.

Here is the long and short of it:

Q: Is the new 2257 scary?
A: Yes.

Q: Will it be enforced?
A: Yes, there will be enforcement prior to the elections. Whoever gets nabbed during that time will be prosecuted even if the administration changes hands. If Bush stays in power, prepare for 4 years of unmitigated hell. If he does not stay in power - this will all probably die back down.

Q: Is the Sundance case set a precedent to beat a 2257 rap?
A: Yes, it probably does, but you had better have around 125k of spare income to fight it if it ever winds up in federal court.

If you want to stay in this game: hire a good 1st amendment, prepare for the worst, get your ship in order, and have money to fight a case.

That?s the last I will comment on 2257.

I agree, this law is total bullshit.

There are 2 things I will ignore:

1- I am canadian and so are my models, I don't care if the american governement don't accept canadian driver's liscence as a proof of identity. Most of my models doesn't have their passport so fuck it. If my webhost is making me trouble, I'll switch to a canadian webhost. It would be sad cause I love webair.

2- I will never give my models private informations. ( Address, phone number. ) If they want it, they will have to write me a legal letter.


In short, I have their driver's licsence with their birth date, a signed model release and that's it. I won't phone my 400 models to ask them to show me their passport.

22... 5.. 7? What? :1orglaugh

I don't not live in the UK but in Canada and my servers are US hosted. I don't know WTF i'll do. :helpme
I don't run paysites, only traffic generating sites.

So ?

Ask them. They'll tell you if you have to comply or not.
If you do have, switch to another host.

i live outside usa but my hosting is in usa:321GFY

im using our new software
:thumbsup

For those of you who were at Internext for the 2257 seminar (which was very good - BTW) - would any of you have voted different after hearing the panel?

I'm less that a year away from moving out of the USA... far away, so if they want to come and get me, I will tell exactly that to the judge. Truth be told, they won't care about me when there are so many of you here in the USA. Easy targets, easy cases. Who wants to deal with some asshat living 10'000 miles away that refuses to give up his models privacy when they can stick it to Joe Blow living in Kansas.

Other than giving up the models privacy, I will be 100% compliant and have IDs for every single model I have ever worked with. :thumbsup I'm not worried.

??

that is the big question, I guess. I have no problem following all the rules from this moment on but there are going to be galleries on freehosts from years ago, etc that I will have no access to. That is going to be loads of fun.

I wouldn't count on them making anything easy for you.