Which Spons are Ready for 2257 Change?

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Originally Posted by Pusher

I agree with Paul...a likely result of the new 2257 regs will be a decline in the amount of free porn (especially hardcore) on the net.

That means surfers will have to PAY to get the hardcore stuff!

LONG LIVE GONZALEZ

That seems pretty much wrong to me, and here's why.

There is plenty of free porn available from non-US sites. Scads of Russian and East European sites feature tons of non-2257-compliant hardcore, often with models that are clearly under US legal age.

As smaller US affiliate webmasters are driven out of the market by the burden of 2257, or switch to softcore-only free sites and galleries, the surfers will not somehow magically be motivated to pay for hardcore content, but will rather get their "free" hardcore fix from Euro and Asian-based sites that will happily move in to fill the vacuum left behind, and the overall amount of porn featuring models of questionable legal age will likely increase rather than decrease thanks to 2257.

Aside from the illogic of the argument, a pornographer supporting the policies of crazed fundamentalist porn-haters just seems outright irrational and foolish to me.
I'm pretty damn sure that the Bush/Gonzalez policies on porn are not intended to increase the bottom line profits of webmasters.