2257 regs published in full

[Ms Naughty]

Just a thought I am having.

RawAlex is saying that cropping an image doesn't help because the original was hardcore.

But that section about DVD boxcovers that I quote earlier says that if you publish an image of a boxcover, it's considered to be a whole new image. Well, wouldn't publishing a cropped photo constitute creating a "new image". If it doesn't depict sexually explicit behavior, then it's not under the 2257 laws.

I was pondering this because I found myself wondering about my sites where I'm selling DVDs and I've copied the boxcover from the online store - "republishing it" according to the DOJ. If I censor the boxcover so that it is no longer explicit, I've just published a softcore photo...

So this becomes one of those unenforceable laws like Cleo talked about. How are the people at the DOJ going to KNOW that the softcore pictures you're using are really softcore or were originally hardcore. They can only go on what they see.

Again, just vague speculation on my part.