Court Strikes Down Age Verification For Adult Sites
 

How Appealing reports that a court has struck down age verification requirements for porn sites, as a First Amendment violation. Here is the ruling (PDF). While the average reader here has never been to such a site, porn has been a driving force in the economics and technology of the Net. The age verification requirements of U.S.C. Title 18, Section 2257 were yet another attempt to regulate to death what the government can't outright prohibit. The requirements intruded on the privacy and safety of performers and created headaches for sites like flickr and photobucket that host images. It is has long been thought that the requirements wouldn't hold up in court, but this is the first actual ruling.

full story at http://howappealing.law.com/102307.html#029204

thread title is misleading.

thought you were talking about using credit cards to verify consumers of adult materials.

from the title, i would have thought the complete opposite of you.

So no more 2257 soon? :)

my penis is misleading... from the first sight, it seems like a very docile and nice appendage of myself, but when it goes to work, it is a very destructive piece of well trained machinery....