I would imagine the original poster is referring to how this type of law takes the decision-making out of the hands of the people being filmed.

However, it wouldn't ever be legal for underaged girls to consent to this, so I'm not sure what original poster's point was.

Firstly, some of those "girls" are barely younger than the "girls" on this site. Secondly, and far more importantly, if you read what I actually wrote this case isn't about that. This is about not maintaining adequate records, which probably shouldn't be a felony in a free society.

If they were producing "Hot Grannies Gone Wild" and failed to provide or maintain records, even for images taken decades ago they are criminally liable. The government here is requiring producers of even marginally salacious material to maintain personally identifying data on millions of people forever with no privacy safeguards, and forcing those lists to be distributed to any and every downstream producer or purchaser.

Put another way, suppose SG went bankrupt and their assets (read: pictures of you) were sold to the highest bidder would you want those people to know who you are and where you live? SG would have to provide that information or face imprisonment, despite the fact that you are not underage.

Out of curiosity, Reprobate, how does this compare to requirements of employers such as fast food restaurants that employ persons under eighteen or in professions that require a minimum age to work at, such as selling alcohol?
I ask because this seems to be the closest annalogy that I can think of to this situation. The girls in these videos are more or less being employed to perform in these videos (though they may not be receiving monetary compensation) in an age-restricted industry.

Edited to add disclaimer:
I ask this in all sincerity and out of genuine curiosity of the law, not as a snide rhetorical statement.

Yay because this is one step closer to him losing everything and dying.

'bout time that fucking frat boy paid some damn fines.

I love how people who subscribe to porn site can be all high and mighty against a porn site producer!!!

The fact that this law is another erosion of personal freedoms and privacy for consenting Americans and that no one is complaining, baffles me.

Ahhhh delicious irony.

i hardly think that the government making you sign a piece of paper that says "yes, i am at least 18 years old" if you want to do porn is an erosion of personal freedom. but hey, bitch for the sake of bitching if you want

So next we get to see, "My cell mates gone wild on my ass"

it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

They don't simply need a signed piece of paper stating that someone is 18. They need the total gamut of personal information from name, address, and so on.

And the problem is that the government is requiring everyone who sells porn to have this information on hand and readily available for every person who appears in any pornographic materials they may try to sell.

1st of all, larger porn sites don't neccessarily have the resources to maintain the kind of detailed and easily accessible records that the government is demanding from them.

2nd of all, because anyone who sells an image of a model is required to have all their personal information on hand, this means that pornographic content that is produced and then sold and then resold and so on MUST carry the personal information of all the depicted persons along with the depictions themselves. So if you pose naked for someone and give them carte blanche to sell the right to reproduce your photos as often as they want, then they'll be selling your real name and all the information required to find you along with the pictures of your naked ass. Since most porn producers make their money packaging and reselling content, this means anyone who works in porn essentially loses their anonymity and, quite possibly, their privacy.


Honestly, nobody ever tries to pass off underaged girls as adults in the porn industry. It's illegal and there's no benefit since pedophiles need to know someone is less than 18 in order to be attracted to them. Minors who do break into the porn industry, though, always end up getting found out too. Their videos become illegal and it's all good.

Really, if they were interested in protecting the children, they'd devote all their efforts to rooting out the kidnappers and sex offenders rather than fining Joe Francis (and, eventually, porn producers who aren't total assholes) for not keeping adequate records.





P.S. I might not know what I'm talking about.

Didn't I hear that this guy was at the SG 5th Anniversary Party?

I was just reading this thread with no intention of posting, but man, you sure pulled this right out of your ass, didn't you.

yeah, with Paris Hilton...

I'm sure the government went after the bars that served those underaged girls alcohol with the same zeal it did with this guy.....

Anyway, this law which is supposed to protect women is in fact making them unsafe. Now any stalker with a bit of cash can say he wants to start a porn site, buy photos from a distributor, get all the adresses of the models.....and there you go.

Funny how often times law makers make laws that actually hinder women when they say they wanna help.