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[RawAlex]

Candy, even if you had privacy as the model, there is no right to privacy for businesses. You are free to get naked, and the government is free to ask you to state (on the websites) where your business is located. That you also happen to be the model is the sort of confusion you need to deal with personally.

You have the right to be naked.
You have the right to publish images
You have the right to privacy that you don't have to waive as a model

You don't have the right to run an undeclared business, and the government is well within it's rights to ask you to declare your business.

I understand your pain and frustration, but the problem you really have is one of structure. You apparently don't have a company or LLC or business registration of some sort. Otherwise you could use that name as your producer for records. Unless you rented an office, you would still have to use the same address, but that is another issue all together.

Single models are getting screwed by this new law mostly because you use to be free to do whatever with no implied or actual responsbilities. Now that you are responsible for something, now you have to declare yourself in the open, well, it sucks.

Good luck, The answers to your problem are, well, expensive.

Alex

[Linkster]

Candy - you can hide as much of it as you want - if someone really wanted to track you down they could pretty easily - just as a quick test I checked a few things you guys have out there and there are leads that would probably let me find you within one day Its all dependant on how hard someone really wants to find something - just keep in mind that your history of domain ownership and internet archives all give away enough to that idiot that wants to stalk.

[Wenchy]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

You don't have the right to run an undeclared business, and the government is well within it's rights to ask you to declare your business.

Alex

Alex, you and I are normally on the same page, but I have to disagree with you on this one point. As long as Candy is paying her taxes, her business is NOT undeclared.

I run a business from my home already and have for more years than I care to admit... never once has anyone suggested or "legislated" that I publish my private information for public dissemination.

Due to the fact that the pornography itself is NOT illegal (a point that even the government has conceded), I fail to see the legality between picking and choosing which businesses have to publish and which are exempt. We are all home-based businesses and should fall under the same basic umbrella.

My sticking point with the whole publish-your-address issue is simply this: If my P O Box is good enough for the IRS, it should damned well be good enough for the DOJ.

Just my 2 cents