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Originally posted by [Labret]
Being a paranoid, this is a subject I think about alot. Have asked lawyers about, listened to everyone I can, read the historical obscenity prosecutions etc...
Here is what I have come up with. Historically, the Feds always go for the big boys first. The Larry Flynts, the video producers, the content makers. One lawyer told me its all about money. It costs in excess of a million dollars to shaft someone for a federal obscenity violation. Thats why they want to hit the big boys first. What do they get for spending all that money and shafting some 19 year old kid and his pee pee website? Jack shit. They need to send a message and they need to make it worth their while finacially. They are not gonna spend 20 mill to haul in 20 gallery makers. Waste of money, time, and energy. That, and it is not as easy as it used to be to make the charges stick. How many obscenity cases you seen go through the last 10 years? Next to none compared to the heyday in the 1980s.
So, if the crackdown comes, the big boys will get hit first. And when they get hit, I close up shop and leave.
People have been talking about these coming crackdown since I started. I suspect someone is gonna take it in the ass, but it wont be any of us. At first.
Thats just my opinion.
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I disagree sometimes the small fish is the target. The 19-year-old probably doesn?t have sufficient resources to defend himself so it would be an easy victory for the troops. Sit the 19-year-old down tell him he is facing 50 years, but we will cut a deal and only send you up for 15. How many years did that 19-year-old girl in South Carolina get for selling her used panties? She was hardly a whale. Prosecutors are interested in the headlines. The Larry Flints of the world have the resources to draw out a criminal trial for 10 years or more the small fish don?t.