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Originally Posted by RawAlex
Mr Blue:
a) As I mentioned, if you are doing this from home without a business address, and feel at risk, then you have two choices: Get out of the business or actually set up an office with an office address and use that. Not a PO box, but an actual office, with a business license and such.
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Well, that's legal challenge one there as not every small business can afford a office space and the privacy concerns / danger of having your identity on the net like that will surely be the first point of challenge...clearly this puts a burden that will shutdown a lot of people in the biz. I did think of a cost effective way of handling this if a group of webmasters from a specific area rent out one small office space, have a server where you can ftp the required documentation. If one office handled x number of webmasters the cost wouldn't be that bad.
Also, while this may not effect the big players, it will somewhat as you're removing the body of webmasters that promote, support, etc, the system. LL's and TGP's would have to depend on sponsors more for FHG, HFS, etc, etc.
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b) It's going to be interesting to see which sponsors step up and which ones pussy out.
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Most won't, foreign companies certainly won't, and this leads to affiliates only using content in which they purchase or going to sponsors that provide the necessary documentation.
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c) If you take route mention in a, then there is nothing to see.
I am thinking that a PC specifically dedicated to the job of record keeping,with nothing on it but an OS and a database program would be about right. How far they can inspect your office or home is something I have no idea on, except to say that I am sure it would make an interesting court case.
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Yes I was thinking about a seperate comp set up with the database available, but it leads to a question of how broad something like this would be allowed for interpertation. You get a zealot inspector that demands to have access to all your comps...while I'm not worried so much about that...how far can they go when they do this inspection.