There have been a handful of inspections. The FBI Supervisor-- not merely an agent -- said that most did not completely pass.
No charges have been filed.

The sky is not falling.

There is real life and then there is the fantasy land of rigid application of the law. Only on a law school exam, where the student is taught to critically think about the theory, can a motorist traveling 65.02 MPH in a 65.00 MPH zone be stopped, ticketed, and convicted. It is the same fantasy land where a producer whose material is on 100 different websites and he has listed 98 of them will that producer go to jail.

Joe Francis [Girls Gone Wild] had videos of underage girls and NO records. He was fined and given community service. How can anyone possibly presume that a producer who is trying to comply with the law but fails to cross a T or dot and I will go to prison for 5 years when a blatant offender is fined?


There must be intent to break a law. There must also be something serious for a United States Attorney to charge someone with a crime in Federal Court. The US Attorneys office does not have unlimited resources, and federal judges do not have the courtroom time to spend on a webmaster who had some but not all of the URLs for his content listed. If you seriously break the law, you can be punished. If you are 98% there at compliance, the federal system will not waste its time on you. There are drug traffickers, kidnappers, murderers, and other serious threats to society that must come first.

Comply with the law but dont freak out that there is no way to be 100% compliant.