TopBucks 2257 Announcement - Must Read

[Lee]

TopBucks prides itself in maintaining a professional reputation within the Adult industry; our business has always been and continues to be--sound, organized and run with a distinct level of confidence in order to provide a quality service to our webmasters and members. With the recent changes to the 2257 regulations, we want to assure our webmasters that you can continue to expect the same level of quality and professionalism from TopBucks. We have worked to comply with all changes to the 2257 regulations and support the Free Speech Coalition's efforts to combat unnecessary aspects of the regulations.

After in-depth analysis of the 2257 changes with our attorney and others within the industry, we have worked to be fully compliant ourselves and worked to create solution, so there are minimal impacts on our webmasters.

Below, is a breakdown of changes in TopBucks Terms as a result of our compliance with 2257 regulations:

Hosted Galleries:
Currently, all of our static hosted galleries and daily rotating pic/video galleries comply with the revised 2257 regulations, as the content is hosted on our domains. No changes by our webmasters are necessary in order to comply with our terms.

Free Content:
Webmasters will have two choices in how they access/utilize TopBucks giveaway content:


Those of you who feel more comfortable with non-"sexually explicit" content that is excluded from 2257 regulations may utilize the non-"sexually explicit" content recently provided in the giveaway content area. More sets will be added soon.
Giveaway content utilized by webmasters for non-reality sites is required to be removed from the webmaster's domain by June 23rd, 2005, as we are unable to provide access to records for these images.
All giveaway content previously provided by TopBucks for reality sites may continue to be used. This includes "sexually-explicit" content as webmasters will have access to our online 2257 database outlined in the next section.

TopBucks 2257 Database:
TopBucks will provide our webmasters with the ability to access an online 2257 database only upon a lawful 2257 investigation for all images/videos from our reality sites. This database will have several back up servers and different hosting locations to ensure quality service. Furthermore, it will be audited by reputable third party companies and attorneys, allowing webmasters to feel confident in our 2257 compliance.

In the event of a lawful 2257 investigation after June 23rd, 2005, webmasters may call 1.866.470.2257 and we will provide a username and password to access the necessary model information on Topbucks2257.com. We will require the following information prior to accessing our database:

TopBucks ID & Password
Verification of Payable to Address
Full name and accreditations of 2257 investigator
The URL of the image or video in question
We ask that webmasters review more detailed information and instructions regarding our database and use of our free content by logging into their TopBucks account and visiting https://webmaster.topbucks.com/2257.html.

Banner Content:
All "sexually explicit" banner content has been pulled from the TopBucks Banner Area. We require that all webmasters currently utilizing "sexually explicit" banners remove the banners from their sites by June 23rd, 2005.

We have provided sets of "non-sexually explicit" banners that our webmasters may use as an alternative and we are working on providing new "sexually-explicit" banners for webmasters to use that comply with the revised regulations. Additional "non-sexually explicit" banners will be added over the next two weeks.

TopBucks Web Sites:
Webmasters may continue to promote all of our TopBucks websites; reality, straight, gay, and VOD. We have worked on creating compliant tours and will continue to do so in order for all of our websites to sustain complete operations.

Terms Modifications:
We will be updating/amending our Webmaster Terms of Service by June 23, 2005 to reflect these new policies and regulations. We may have additional requests of our webmasters with regard to foreign model use, but will communicate any necessary changes in a timely manner.

Finally, we feel our solution carefully balances both our goals of minimizing the impact of the 2257 regulations on our webmasters and protecting the privacy of our 4500+ models. We appreciate the support of our webmasters in understanding both goals and remind webmasters that we plan to continue to be proactive and offer additional solutions to 2257 compliance as they become available to us.

For a preview of our database, visit http://www.topbucks2257.com. Please feel free to hit up any of the TopBucks staff or email support@topbucks.com with any questions.

[GLBTcity]

I just wanted to remind webmasters/owners with sites containing sexually explicit materials about 2257 records keeping.

To be able to access the docements is great in the event of an inspection which according to the Feds, you will have previous notification of the inspectors coming for a visit by way of an appointment. (yeah right)

However, as explained by Jeffrey Douglas (attorney, board of FSC), you have to have ALL URL's listed in the files where a particular model and the sexually explicit image is located in your website.

Simply downloading the records from your provider isn't going to be compliant. That's only the first step. You have a LOT of "connecting the dots" left to go once you've obtained those documents.

PapaBear

[basschick]

is topbucks planning to man the phone at their 2257 database 24/7? what if i list my business hours as 7 - 11 pm on sunday, and that is when i am inspected?

anyway, the law was extremely specific - this 2257 database would be a great idea for the old 2257, but the new 2257 makes the secondary producers responsible for housing the i.d. themselves.

i don't know who their lawyer is, and i bet they paid him more than my annual income for this work, but i didn't see a lotta loopholes in the law. it seemed very clear and understandable.

[Fister]

I agree with Basschick...I will not use any sexually-explicit depictions after 6/23 unless I have the performer records on file locally. If I were hosting content from this sponsor, I'd use only the non-sexually-explicit content.