The shitstorm scenario of 2257

[Boogie]

A lot of folks who are complying with 2257 I think dont understand the true "doomsday" scenario. For those folks I'd like to take time to spell it out.

Christine, 18 years old, shoots photos for this new fangled internet thing in 1998. She doesnt own a computer she knows few people who do. She figures few people will ever see them.

Fast forward to 2005 and she's a christian mother of 3. She regrets her adult past. she is married to a good christian man.

A gentlemen from her church in a moment of weakness recognizes her on an adult site and wants proof that its her.

He applies for a webmaster position or purchases the content from its provider (all of this information is available on 2257 statements on the website she appears on). He then acquires her model release and her ID and confronts her.

That's one of my least favorite scenarios.

Another scenario is if this man isnt a member of a church but a crazy man who watches her walk to work every day. He masturbates to photos he's taken of her with his cell phone. He thinks he loves her.

He finds those pictures online and proceeds to attempt to get the information. He's unable to do so.

So after writing the program she's shot content for and the content providers and both have done a fairly good job of weeding him out as a crazy and not a legitimate secondary producer he becomes desperate.

He goes to the address of the primary producer, which he finds easily on a website, and then proceeds to break and enter to steal the records.

He then has her home information her work information her number, her ID, her social security number.

And the number of hundreds of other providers.

But yet, if he's smart, he's not breaking into the office of a giant adult program.

he's breaking into a home. a small webmaster like myself who works out of his home.

In the process he shoots that webmaster.

All it takes is one crazy. All it takes is one Holy Roller. All it takes is one loose cannon.

Think this cant happen? Ask Larry Flynt who lost his ability to walk to one such crazy person.

Think this cant happen? Ask Arika Ames who was recently harassed at a webmaster trade show.

Think this cant happen? Talk to the veterans of the industry and they will tell you story after story of crazy emails and phone calls. Stories of folks who knock on their hotel rooms at trade shows and follow the girls around like hungry dogs looking for a chance to bite.

It HAS happened.

It WILL happen.

And 2257 puts legitimate webmasters and performers in danger.

This is tantimount to forcing every actor in a "legitimate" film shown in movie cineplexes all over the world to have their ID's and contact information distrubited to every theatre in the country.

This is a shitstorm folks. You comply, sure, but you need to fight it. Those of you who are giving out ID's already from your performers, think you're doing the right thing and that's great.

But are you really checking who you're sending it to? are you really checking who you're sharing this information with? ARe you trying to seperate the crazies from the legitimate webmasters?

Franklin said it best and I'm paraphrasing here;

He who would sacrafice liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.

It is your patriotic duty to fight this. It is your duty as an american. It is your duty to your webmasters and your models.

Those of you who are simply folding and bowing out instead of donating some of your millions to this cause, its a shame.

you should BEG to be the one that they make an example out of.

You should BEG to go down in history as the man who fought for free speech.

You should be first in line to be the martyr who is thrown to the lambs to protect your performers.

Jim of this board has offered this sacrafice and so do I.

Lets roll with it. Like Jim says, I'd love to meet the president of the ACLU. Bring it on Gonzales.