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Sir Horny: The idea of this new "rule" is to specifically trip up as many porn people as possibly for poor record keeping. It is about the same as using zoning bylaws to get rod of strip clubs. It isn't exactly what the intention seems to be on the surface, but the reality is that even if all your models are grannies, without model IDs and such, you can't use the material and are just as guilty under these rules as a guy with some naked 17 year old on his site.
It is a blatant attempt to make it hard enough to legally run a porn business that few individuals will be interested in doing the work.
I know even though I am Canadian that I am feeling the chill. Certain sponsors are pulling their sponsor content entirely, which means site specific promotions that I have built all have to go away. Other sponsors are limiting or somehow changing their content, banners, and such, which means that for each banner set I run (and I have hundreds) I will have to look to see if the banners are still valid after June 23rd. Some sponsors are going under, amateur sites are closing, and sites are being removed. All of this creates work and lost revenue for everyone in the industry.
It's not a good time for anyone.
tb: Until we see how hard the DOJ is going to push on foreign companies, I don't really know what the answer is. I will be watching very closely to see how this is all taken on.
My feeling is that on June24th, a cross section of the porn industry will get a visit. A couple of the larger "mainstream" porn companies, some smaller programs, and a few individual webmasters. These people will become the tests.
Then we will know more.
Alex
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