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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
I'm not sure what the law would be. There's never been a prosecution in this area so no case law exists that I'm aware of.
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Wasn't the "Girls Gone Wild" guy prosecuted for that? Or did he cop a deal?
Wait... Just found this on Wikipedia:
At present, the Department of Justice has only implemented one specific case based primarily on the new 2257 laws and its supportive regulations. The case was against Mantra Films, Inc., based in Santa Monica, California, and its sister company MRA Holdings (both owned by Joe Francis), who are the originators of the Girls Gone Wild video series. Francis and several of his managers were prosecuted, citing infractions of this act.[3] In January 2007, these charges were for the most part dropped.[4]
However, Francis and the company entered guilty pleas on three counts of failing to keep the required records and seven labeling violations for its series of DVDs and videos before U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak, agreeing to pay $2.1 million in fines and restitution. This allowed Francis to avoid possible harsher penalties which include five years prison time for each violation.
Also in 2006, the FBI began checking the 2257 records of several pornography production companies