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Originally Posted by epitome
It gets really confusing when you are a Canadian company and need to comply with your homeland laws but also want to honor all US laws.
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If you're a Belgian Beermaker, a Swiss Chocolatier, or a German Marzipan Confectionist, nobody in the US cares what you do or how you do it - until you try to tap the American market by importing it. It's only then that the American government can regulate what you import. In this digital age, though, as the Treasury and Justice Departments have each warned, every computer monitor is what they believe to be a port of entry into the United States. Hey, I don't write these laws or justify them, and everyone here knows that I oppose every law that gets in the way of freedom of expression - each and every one of them - but that's what the courts say. Read the passage in this case from the DC Court of Appeals, upholding Section 2257 in 1994, at the dawn of the adult internet, dealing with arguments about imported porn and Section 2257.
http://www.xxxlaw.com/section-2257/ALA.RENO.html You'll find the passage at the end, at 33 F.3d 78, 94, 308 U.S.App.D.C. 233, 249 [This looks like *94,**249 in the text.]
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