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Originally Posted by SubAms
There's a new licencing authority in the UK called ATVOD and they're making it unworkable for UK webmasters to operate adult sites.
Some of the main things being:
Not allowed to accept debit cards, as under 18s can use them.
Not allowed to show explicit pics and trailers on sites without verifying the age of surfers.
The licence has reduced from about £3000 per site per year to £300 as sites were just moving offshore but if you were to licence they then have the power to censor free areas.
or something like that...
edited to say it doesn't affect me or my sites
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Wow that's pretty crazy, wonder if that's a sign of things to come in North America too... Does it apply to free sites as well as paysites? Like if you have a network of 1,000 blogs they think you're going to cough up $300k pounds?! What's the point of putting all these people out of business?
As a Canadian, I used to really want to visit England. It was top 3 on my list. Now I think I'd go on a free trip, but that's about it.. Seems like the laws are very tight over there, the weather is shit, etc. I've had friends go there and say they didn't like it, which is strange.. Seems like the only thing interesting about England these days is its history. Just my ignorant opinion from someone whose never stepped foot there, but my sense of what England is has changed a lot from my ideas of old to what I read today.