WOW - Feds Want Federal Porn Register

[Lee]

August 19, 2007 -- Ron Jeremy, Jenna Jameson - get ready to stand and be counted.

The Department of Justice wants to come up with an official list of every porn star in America - and slap stiff penalties on producers who don't cooperate.

The new rules, proposed under the Adam Walsh Child Safety and Protection Act, would require blue-movie makers to keep photos, stage names, professional names, maiden names, aliases, nicknames and ages on file for the inspection of the department's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.

"The identity of every performer is critical to determining and ensuring that no performer is a minor," according to the new proposal.

The adult film industry plans to challenge the new rule as a violation of the First Amendment, said Paul Cambria, a lawyer for Hustler and other adult film companies.

He sees it as a way to harass legitimate stag-film producers.

"If they can't get you for obscenity, they'll get you for violating record-keeping," he said. Such a violation would carry a five-year penalty.

The proposed rule would require porn producers to give the title of the video or magazine, or the Web address where the actor appears.

The Department of Justice has shown some sensitivity for the performers' privacy, however. All information not essential to proving their age and identity, like phone numbers and addresses, can be withheld.

Distributors of foreign pornography aren't off the hook - they must still produce a copy of the foreign actor's identification card. The department estimates that there are 500,000 Web sites, 200 DVD producers and 5,000 businesses nationwide that would be subject to the new rule.

The department did not respond to requests for comment, but in its proposal suggested that the benefits outweighed any negative impact on the porn industry.

"The benefit of the rule is that children will be better protected from exploitation in the production of visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct by ensuring that only those who are at least 18 years of age perform in such depictions. The costs to the industry include slightly higher record-keeping costs," the agency argued.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08192007...non_fisher.htm

Next thing you know, porn stars and adult webmasters will be walking around with colored badges and symbols sewn on to our clothing :eek:

Regards,

Lee

[CorbinFisher_BD]

The feds really need to figure out the fact that the legitimate adult entertainment industry isn't the source of all the CP that's out there. The kind of person that is going to run around willfully breaking the law isn't the kind of person that would be affected by any of these laws anyways. It's the whacko filming their kids in the basement that creates almost all the CP out there and I seriously doubt 2257 or any other law is going to do anything to stop them.

[Lee]

The feds really need to figure out the fact that the legitimate adult entertainment industry isn't the source of all the CP that's out there. The kind of person that is going to run around willfully breaking the law isn't the kind of person that would be affected by any of these laws anyways. It's the whacko filming their kids in the basement that creates almost all the CP out there and I seriously doubt 2257 or any other law is going to do anything to stop them.

Right and with bumfuck places like Arkansas creating laws that allow 1yr olds to legally marry with their parents permission they really need to look at themselves before blaming this sort of shit on legal pornographers.

Regards,

Lee

[Xstr8guy]

And it's not like the U.S. is responsible for most of the CP. This is just another reason all legitimate U.S. porn companies will just totally ditch America and take all of their business overseas. All U.S. porn performers will be out of work.

I wonder if Lou Dobbs will take on the out-sourcing of porn as his new crusade?

[gaybucks_chip]

Um, does anyone notice that this isn't anything new at all, just the already passed 4472 which updates 2257?

NY Post makes it sound like this is a radical new idea, but in reality, what they are mentioning in the article is the same recordkeeping that's been required of adult webmasters for 17 years.

[Lee]

Um, does anyone notice that this isn't anything new at all, just the already passed 4472 which updates 2257?

NY Post makes it sound like this is a radical new idea, but in reality, what they are mentioning in the article is the same recordkeeping that's been required of adult webmasters for 17 years.

The only part that is *really* new is that part where the Feds say they want to have an *official list* of pornstars.

Regards,

Lee