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Originally Posted by Bill
I don't know of any content provider that is going to give that much information, and jump thru hoops to please your lawyer.
Does anybody know of one that does? I'd be curious to hear about it.
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I have never heard of a sponsor that gives out that kind of info on their content either.
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Woah. I started posting in the Newbie Questions section because I had been out of the adult website business for a few years and stuff changes fast. There are plenty of developments that have happened, so if I speak out of ignorance, will one of the more experienced webmasters please tell me.
If you are a new (or returning) webmaster and live or work in the USA you are not only REQUIRED to keep the records I mentioned in my earlier post, you are risking an ungodly amount of federal prison time if you don't. (I am aware that older websites and material have been grandfathered into the law in various ways. I am talking about the new stuff.)
The Federal Law is referred to as
2257 and here is a guide to compliance.
Tons of lawyer speak.
I hired a lawyer to sort it through and to maintain the records for me (that I gather, format and send to him) and they check it for legal compliance, give me a thumbs up and then keep it available for the Feds to inspect anytime they want to.
The list of info required by the Feds is included in the list of information that I was requesting from the content provider (with the possible exception of the size of the ID scan...I think my lawyer included that to prove due diligence to a court of law).
I would tell you the Law Group, but I don't want to be accused of spamming and frankly I just started working with these guys and cannot give an honest evaluation of their services yet...all seems good so far. If you want to know their name/URL private message me.
So.....
If in the future a Content Provider sells a US based webmaster content without providing the info mentioned earlier, the US webmaster is in legal jeopardy for using the content if the Feds come knocking and demand the 2257 records for review.
Seems like the Content Providers should get off their ass?
Some have. After Club-Xstream gave me attitude I hardly went away crying. I spent the rest of the day researching new Content Providers who seem to have some concept of what is expected.
So...Bill...here is the first link I found to a Content Providers mentioning 2257 and how they will provide the info you need:
http://webmasters.matrixcontent.com/...s/bill2257.php
(You will need a Matrix Content log-in to access the page).
But as I cruise around, I see only about 15 percent of active Content Providers seeming to even mention providing the correct documentation. Plenty of them mention the original 2257 regulations (back when the webmaster did not need to retain the actual records themselves). Few mention anything about supplying the updated documentation now required for US webmasters.
If that is what I have to deal with, fine. It takes more than legal hoops to jump through to keep me from making an honest buck.
But I beginning to wonder if nobody seems to care because most of the adult webmasters are now no longer based in the USA? Did Bush Jr made the frakkin thing so complicated that US webmasters now the minority in all porn sites operators?
