i'm shocked at the number of webmasters who feel they don't have to comply with 2257. and not just the new regs, either. the custodian of records' address has always had to be a real address and not a p.o. box, for example.
sure, law enforcement MAY not get to you. there's a lot of us, but maybe they don't have to find you.
what if your ex or neighbor gets pissed, he can call the cops and say you do cp. when they check your records, you will be guilty of a crime NOT because your records aren't all there, but because they won't be done according to law. sure, you might win in a court case. how many people here have an extra $100,000 or more plus at least two years of their lives to deal with this before they are found innocent - IF they are?
don't believe it could happen? look up mike jones on some webmaster boards. he had no cp at all, and all his records were in order, thank god. it took five years for the charges (some of which were cp charges, which he continued to face even AFTER all the i.d. he stored was found to be in order) to be dismissed and about a zillion dollars. five YEARS of facing the possiblity of prison even though everything was done right.
did i mention they took all his i.d. and computers? so he couldn't work after this, either.
this is the law - if you can't comply, perhaps you could work with non-nude non-explicit content. that's what i'm going to do to avoid having my address online everywhere. or you could leave the business, or only work with enlargement or dating sites or put up a text description tgp. but we can go to jail or spend years of our life over this.
please be careful!
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