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Originally Posted by mikesouth
But I shouldn't have to tell FTP or anyone else that 2257 does NOTHING to that end. Child pornographers dont keep records y'all. If some 17 year old manages to slip through the cracks in this biz we have always gotten a hold of it quickly but it is VERY rare. We did that even before 2257 was law.
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I believe the cases you are talking about was on the video side, where the video side has done more 2257 compliance than the internet side, thus being able to pull the VHS/DVDs off the shelf when the underage model was identified.
Imagine the world where 2257 is found unconstitutional... there is a big hoorah, and people go back to their businesses.
then one day, a model for a large content producer is found to be underage, and many internet websites have licensed those images/videos.
how is a website operator going to know how to take down those pics and videos?
Most will not know where to start looking.
This is where if you did do "record keeping" of where your images and videos came from on your website, you would be able to pull the content. This bit of record keeping IS part of 2257 compliance... so whether 2257 is a law or not, doing no amount of record keeping is not the answer.
Even without 2257, possession of underage images/videos on your website is a felony as well as the website is now also a distributor.
While there has not been any major under age models found on the internet side, the chances are becoming greater as more content producers enter the space of creating the content, and being sloppy in not checking IDs.
Even the most diligent content producer can be duped with a fake ID... from there, its a big snowball of trouble once that model is found out to be underage.
Fight the hell hath no fury like a woman porned!