Adult Internet Industry Worried about 2257 non compliance
The adult internet industry in the United States is up in arms about the new 2257 compliance regulations about to come into force on June 24th.
The act requires the obligation of adult entertainment promoters who produce, or publish any book, film or videotape containing visual depictions of sexually explicit acts to “create and maintain individually identifiable records pertaining to every performer portrayed in such a visual depiction.”
They are required to record the performer’s name and date of birth, and every name ever used by the performer including their “maiden name, alias, nickname, stage, or professional name.”The trouble with this they say is that it impinges on the performers right to privacy and makes their names publicly available and mandatory to anyone using the material.Many adult promoters are either closing down or changing the way they operate by restricting access to the sexually explicit material to protect performers names from becoming available to the public.
When The Dept. of justice was asked if the primary producers could just provide the names and not the addresses of the performers to their distributors, the Dept declined.It sems rather curious that the Department declined on the grounds that the “..plan would be overly burdensome on primary producers and add an unnecessary layer of complexity to the record-keeping process.”Roger Kelty who runs the ethnic site blackglamors.com seems to think that they are trying to embarrass the girls involved out of working at all.
“Now, when we produce content, we are required to obtain 3 forms of ID from our performers and have them sign affidavits that the address they give is their current address.This worries the girls and rightly so as we are required to pass this information to to our distributors and plainly puts the girls privacy ans safety at risk.” I don’t like the idea that I may part in a girl getting hurt.” Kelty said.
With some producers no longer distributing explicit content but instead only providing non nude erotica and making the expllicit sexual content available on subscription,it could be that the regulation will actually make them more money as the scarcity of free explicit adult material on the internet will make the surfers more liable to pull out their credit card and join to see hardcore sex videos.
Peter Dolby of titsandcocks.com thinks “It could actually solve a problem we have all been screaming about for ages, that there is too much free explicit porn out there. Dont get me wrong I’m not in favor of the 2257 compliance regulation one bit but this actually might make people more money.”
