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Originally Posted by Paul&John
Hm if i see correctly the images/graphics are also hotlinked, so no adult content is hosted on his part, then he still needs those documents?
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I am not American, so only know US law from what I read on the boards, but as far as I am aware yes, regardless of where the picture/video is served from, if it appears on your site, you need documentation and a statement about where you can be contacted if someone wants to see that documentation.
One place I get traffic from is picposting, and when this law hit most US picpost sites closed down because it made them illegal (they had to have documents for every posted picture). Most reopened as TGP sites because then they link to a gallery and the picture does not appear on their site.
While typing the above, I also remember a few sponsors stopped giving out free content and switched to hosted galleries to get round this. However by downloading the content Demamma has bypassed this and so needs the docs.
Of course, you should really get an American lawyer to confirm what I just said, because I am not American so have never bothered to check this out properly - it is based on hearsay from the boards. I live in a more civilised country where this sort of rule is looked on as either fascism or communism depending on the politics of whoever is speaking!
