Hey, Aaron,

I share your frustration, because a lot of the decisions we've made in terms of content we make available to our affiliates, what we put on our DVD covers, and even the way our previews are assembled... all those decisions seem to put us at a disadvantage against other programs that are all playing "fast and loose" with the regulations.

In a similar way, although it's for a completely different reason, I'm sure that if we were willing to shoot bareback content that our DVDs would sell better (turns out, according to our distributor, we are one of maybe three decent sized companies in the twink marketplace that don't produce bareback)

Yet, I believe that in both of these cases, we're doing the right thing. In the first case, it's a legal issue... having any explicit content on your site, whether you shot it or whether it's somebody else's content from their site, triggers 2257 documentation requirements. Failure to have the documentation on file for content that is on your server is, open and shut, a violation, and the FSC injunction was, as far as I understand it, made completely moot on this point by the new regulations of 4472.

I completely do not understand why so many people are simply putting their heads in the sand and ignoring this issue entirely. I talk to affiliates every day who cannot understand why we don't want them hosting our preview videos on their own servers, and it's always a "Well, __________________ lets me do it" argument.

All I can say is hopefully the foresight of following the regulations will pay off in the long term, and we will see a lot of the noncompliant sites get shut down, or come into compliance.

Now, of course, what I would REALLY like to see is a *meaningful* anti-child pornography act that, among other things, creates a way to establish aand verify a date of production so that, for example, producers cannot shoot content with underage guys and release it after they are legal. Or somebody going after all the eastern European sites with the guys who are 14 and 15 but the sites claim to have IDs (obviously forged) saying they are 18.

It is becoming increasingly irritating that nobody is actually doing anything meaningful about CP, but instead the feds are spending money examining records of studios that are legal and compliant.