Revised 2257 Regs Will Hit Webmasters Hard
 

As you probably know by now, United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has signed the final rule revising the regulations that implement the 2257 law, known officially as 18 U.S.C. § 2257, and the revised 2257 regulations were published May 24, 2005 in the Federal Register. The revised regulations will be in effect June 23, 2005 and they will have a significant impact on adult web site operators. In summary, the revised regulations have stringent record- and information- keeping requirements for all producers and secondary producers of explicit sexual content, including website operators, requiring all webmasters who handle content to maintain thorough records of age verification on each performer. Furthermore, all associated URLs must be identified for each iteration of each image in every instance of every publication. Additionally, the revised regulations require primary and secondary producers to make records and information available for inspection from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., 365 days a year. Obviously, the Justice Department is intending to use the revised 2257 law to crack down on the porn industry, especially webmasters. Violations of the requirements are criminal offenses punishable by imprisonment for up to five years for a first offense and up to 10 years for subsequent offenses. It is imperative for webmasters to take action to assure compliance. In fact, third party companies, including Zofex, Inc., are offering record- and information- keeping services to producers. Whether you use such a service or do it yourself, make sure you are in compliance!

Thanks for letting me know.

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Only for content produced AFTER June 23 2005. So there in no content on the internet that exists that has to follow that rule yet.

you could have just finished the post there.

Welcome to GFY John. What rock have you been hiding under?
:321GFY

what's 2257?

Would someone please tell me what 2257 is? I can't find out anything since the Soviets are still in control of the airwaves. Its just too hard to get reliable information in Soviet controlled East Berlin.

Show me a link that says that...

Sec. 75.2 Maintenance of records.

(a) Any producer of any book, magazine, periodical, film, videotape,digitally- or computer-manipulated image, digital image, picture, or other matter that contains a depiction of an actual human being engaged in actual sexually explicit conduct that is produced in whole or in part with materials that have been mailed or shipped in interstate or foreign commerce, or is shipped or transported or is intended for shipment or transportation in interstate or foreign commerce and that contains one or more visual depictions of an actual human being engaged in actual sexually explicit conduct made after July 3, 1995 shall, for each performer portrayed insuch visual depiction, create and maintain records containing the following:

(1) The legal name and date of birth of each performer, obtained by the producer's examination of a picture identification card. For any performer portrayed in such a depiction made after July 3, 1995, the records shall also include a legible copy of the identification document examined and, if that document does not contain a recent and recognizable picture of the performer, a legible copy of a picture identification card. For any performer portrayed in such a depiction after June 23, 2005, the records shall include

(i) A copy of the depiction, and

(ii) Where the depiction is published on an Internet computer site or service, a copy of any URL associated with the depiction or, if no URL is associated with the depiction, another uniquely identifying reference associated with the location of the depiction on the Internet.

I never saw that 2005 thing anywhere other than in this thread.

I hear they just came out with phones that have buttons, not a rotary dial...

It's the END for TGP's. That's why the sponsors provide Free Hosted Galleries (see http://www.fhgstore.com) :)

so what`s your point ?

I believe that was revised to say "during normal business hours of each webmaster" or words to that effect.

Why must you spread these lies?

Rotary will never die!

"imprisonment for up to five years for a first offense and up to 10 years for subsequent offenses"

like jails arent already over-crowded, lets put internet geeks in jail with killers & gangbangers and see what happens. its like putting a goldfish in a tank full of piranhas.

Yup, minimum of 20 hours per week, doesn't have to be those hours in the proposed regs, and I believe they have to provide which 20+ hours on their statement, but I'm not 100% about that last bit.