The shitstorm scenario of 2257

[RawAlex]

Phonesexchick: You are exactly who the government has targeted. In order to remain in business, you will need to get an office and move your business into that office. That will require you to pay rent, business license, business taxes, possible health and safety issues, payroll taxes, and any other number of things. Your office will have to be staffed at least 20 hours a week or it isn't your principle place of business.

Your choice is (a) reveal and likely get hassled / attacked / possibly killed or (b) spend a bunch of money and fundamentally change the bottom line of your business.

It's the governments REAL intention on this, and the combination of rules, requirements, and declarations makes these intentions very clear. The type of stalking that Boogie is talking about is real, it's a problem, and it won't go away.

Exposing models to this risk is a lawsuit in the making - for the federal government.

It's going to get ugly.

Alex

[RBC]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Make much of the current content illegal: Be changing the ID requirements and adding in model ID disclosure that would put foreign producers in violation of privacy laws in their countries, the new rules have the effect of killing off huge amounts of existing content. My personal estimate is than 90% of the "low buck content" (such as pixmasters, rock bottom, and others) will be effectively useless, with a lack of model releases and / or legal IDs. It doesn't help that many of these producers seem to see the new 2257 regs as a profit center, charging more than the original costs of the content for model IDs.

I take some offense here since you took the liberty of including my business in your statement. Again you could not be further from the truth.
First off before I continue, until there has been any cases brought forth by the DoJ on obscenity and the new 2257 we can all speculate until the cows come home. What pisses me off is guys like you Alex who are not content providers nor a lawyer but rather a webmaster that owns a site on linking sites and content to be the "expert" on what is the new laws in a country you do not live in nor own a business in. The only fact is you do business with Americans. You are Canadian, a citizen residing in La Belle Provence, not reciding in the US, not a lawyer, not a business lawyer, not an American business lawyer. So please refrain from spewing your personal opinion of misinformation, paranoia and fear amongst the rest of us. Your opinion is just that an opinion. By the way, I was born and raised in Montreal and I have worked and lived in the States for over 10 years. I know enough about this industry to spend the money to hire a US attorney who specializes in this field to help me better understand, comply and interpret American laws especially when it comes to the laws that directly affect my businesses in the adult industry.

BTW, contrary to what you have previously posted in another thread with regard to your lawyer-wanna-be misinformation. It is not the responsibility nor requirement of the primary producer to provide any IDs what-so-ever. It is the responsibility of the purchaser to acquire the proper documentation. In layman's terms. If someone bought content from a producer 2 years ago it is soley up to purchaser to acquire all the ID docs then when they purchased the content. Failure to do so is the irresponsibility of the purchaser. Even with the new 2257 and secondary producers who have obtained the proper info. It is not required for them to give the proper IDs with the content. The responsibility lies with the purchaser. Of course being what it is today if you were to not give the IDs then it would be business suicide.

Please Note: ALL content that is on the new website RockBottomContent.com has ALL legal docs (government issue ID, full legal name, DOB and any known alias') to back up and supply our customers. So please refrain from slandering RockBottomContent with your misinformation. We are not looking to "profit" from customers of the former owners of RBC to provide them with the docs that they should have initially acquired when they purchased the content. Further support and info is available to all customers of Rock Bottom Content be it before or after we acquired the name.

[SirMoby]

Originally Posted by RBC

What pisses me off is guys like you Alex

That's one way to influence all the possible new customers on the board and in only 13 posts. Wow!