FSC statement about the 2257 meeting

[kane]

Originally Posted by lassiter

Doesn't sound like the FSC is doing very well with this so far.

I would argue the opposite. Without them nobody would have fought the secondary producer standings and the industry would now have to follow a law that was hard to understand and impossible to comply with. They got the secondary producer thing stopped, but the government (via an addition to the Adam Walsh act) changed the law again to remove the secondary producer provision and make everyone a "producer".

From what I understand the judge then told them that since it has changed there is no use in going forward with the fight. So now people that would have fallen under the "secondary producer" area will have to have docs and records, but it looks like the FSC is going to work with the justice department to come up with exactly what they will need to have. As it says, currently someone that just buys some content can't comply with the law because they didn't personally inspect the IDs and they didn't personally witness the signatures on the docs. There are other things in there too that "secondary" type producers can't comply with. Hopefully they will be able to come up with some type of a reasonable thing that will be easy to comply with so anyone that has to won't spend hours a day just up-keeping records.

[Bill]

You know, it seems to me that the most useful item to push for in the new regulations would be to not have it be retroactive.

I wonder if the FSC knows that and is pushing for it?

I wonder what the best way to communicate that to the FSC would be?

[lassiter]

Originally Posted by kane

Without them nobody would have fought the secondary producer standings and the industry would now have to follow a law that was hard to understand and impossible to comply with.

Which is exactly the situation, now that the injunction regarding secondary producers has been lifted. Point goes to DOJ.

Originally Posted by kane

So now people that would have fallen under the "secondary producer" area will have to have docs and records, but it looks like the FSC is going to work with the justice department to come up with exactly what they will need to have. As it says, currently someone that just buys some content can't comply with the law because they didn't personally inspect the IDs and they didn't personally witness the signatures on the docs. There are other things in there too that "secondary" type producers can't comply with.

The FSC has been working with some of the FBI guys that actually do inspections, but the DOJ and the Khristian Kongressional Krazies are another thing entirely. Their intention is to make the regulations impossible to comply with, so they can tell the cracker vote "see, we forced a whole bunch of evil pornographers out of business, like we promised we would."

[tickler]

Seems like Moonlight Entertainment just got audited.
http://avn.com/index_cache.php?Prima...tent_ID=288544

[Bill]

Yeah, I heard about that - bascially a continuation of the inspections that were going on before the Gonzo hearings. Primary producers, video productions only as far as I've heard.

They found nothing - the guy inspected said they were friendly and helpful. He had already closed his business, they went to his home and spent an hour going over his records.