[quote=Halfdeck]I've met cops who have no respect for the law and they make me sick. QUOTE]
To be fair and I can understand where a lot of people would attack the corrupt or out of control cop... and I agree they are dangerous.. I've known more than a few and when they're your'e friends they're the greatest people in the world to hang out with and know.... and you know what? They'll still go out that night and save a family from the drunken boyfriend with a gun, or recover a couple stolen cars, or return an Alzheimer’s patient to a family.
Anyways, what I'm about to say may piss people off but I think its the truth!
To: Web Woman and everyone like her!
You have my utmost sympathies and I truly have an idea of what you are going through. Here's the rub and take my words as gospel... first of all stupid
realize everything you post here is and will be evidence. Whatever you declare here you will have to defend there.
So shut the fuck up and get a lawyer immediately.
Additionally, you have just gone through a scary and difficult time. You should know that it has just begun. It will get much worse from here on out and will last a minimum of two years of fucked financials, major inconvenence, threat to your freedom, and maybe even an upcoming incarceration and payment of a bond that depending on your state maybe many tens of thousans of dollars.
Unless you have 50,000+ to invest you will end up loosing on some aspect of this matter. So don't be more stupid and think a jury is an option. Close this matter as expeditiously as possible take your lump and move on .. or out.
A note to all naive people running porn sites:
As much as you're pleased with yourself and popular at parties... you should remember that to most others you are a smut peddler slightly above lizard on the scale of evolution and they want to stamp you out. You are lucky to even be in this business.... a decade ago someone would be throwing combustible materials in your winows or meeting you in an alley. Prosecution has always been a sister to pornography. If you are not prepared for the prospect don't cry later
If you had done your due diligence when starting this business and done a simple internet search of news articles on the subject you would have found that this kind of prosecution is fairly common in different locations over the years in amost identical circumstances as yours.
One lesson that your exprience illustrates is if you are on the web don't operate locally. If you operate locally stay the hell off the web.
Another is: have plenty of cash offsite and a backup of your webspace in multiple locations.
Another is: have lunch with a lawyer at least once every three months. If you're not playing tennis with him/her you've got the wrong lawyer.
Don't have a lawyer? Next....
The porn biz is a war zone. People and orgnizations are trying to demolish you, ruin you, ridcule you, hurt you, put you in jail. They go to bed thinking about the subject and they wake up thnking about the prospects. They are obsessed. They have power. They have guns, and cars, and radios, and snoops, and snitches, and subpoenas, and more guns.
It is also a business ripe with fraud and criminal enterprise and an easy political target. There's a lot of stuff swirling around this. Many, many, WM's should really reconsider.
Phew... I feel so much better already with that off my chest!