2257 Developments
Posted On: 2007-10-25
So I see that there have been some interesting developments in the ongoing saga of 2257. What's even more interesting is the fact that the Court that appears to have done major damage to 2257 wasn't even hearing a case that involved an online porn site ... an online porn producer ... or anything to do with the FSC.
Instead the Federal Appeals Court that found major problems with 2257 was hearing a case that involved a swingers' magazine and a woman who decided that fighting for justice was well worth the effort and the cost.
Of course now the FSC is popping up all over the place trying to get in on the act but it seems that this was something the FSC never wanted to know about. They certainly never appeared before the Court and it makes you wonder if they even knew the case was going ahead ... and had been for the last 12 years.
Obviously this doesn't mean that our struggle with the whole 2257 situation is over ... because you can bet your fortune that it isn't. So don't stop keeping records and don't become complacent because, just like the Terminator, the Government will be back.
There was one very interesting point raised in the discussion on the ruling that I was reading. It was made by my friend baddog who pointed out that, while we seem to have a fear of conservative appointments to the Courts, it is usually those very same conservative judges who uphold the United States Constitution rather than the obviously tainted laws that try to sidestep the principles of set out in the Constitution.
They may not like what we do but if we stay within the confines of the Constitution they're more than happy to find in our favor. It's an interesting way to look at the situation and one that I've never thought about before.
That finding by the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit comes at a very important time too. It seems that we were getting much closer to the time when inspections of secondary producers was about to start and now it's quite possible that any further inspections will be placed on hold.
If you want to read more about what this might mean for us I'm sure you will find it on just about every Webmaster board out there on the Net.
While we're talking about the adult industry and the law perhaps you can tell me if it's just my imagination or has the Government gone really quiet on chasing down spammers?
Of course we had the case just recently where two well-known industry figures got five years each for spamming adult sites but has there been anything else lately?
After the Can-Spam Act I'm sure we all expected to hear of a lot of small-time spammers getting taken down by the Government. And you would think that every time they did catch a spammer there would be a lot of news in the press about it ... but things seem to have gone rather quiet for quite some time now. I guess I didn't really expect any Government to have much success tracking down and prosecuting spammers but I certainly didn't think things would be as quiet as what they have been.
It seems that the Can-Spam Act has been about as ineffectual in combating spam as many people thought. There seem to have been few prosecutions and the amount of spam hasn't diminished ... if anything there is even more spam hitting our inboxes now.
However, I have a very effective solution to the spam problem. I'm sure it would work and not only would it reduce the amount of spam we get but it would give us far more leisure time too.
My solution is based on something that is already working to reduce spam. All the Government has to do to beat the spammers is declare a whole lot more public holidays and that should vastly reduce the amount of spam out there. If you don't believe me just look back at the amount of email you've received on recent public holidays.
On public holidays it drops to almost nothing so if we have more public holidays the spam problem is solved.
Yeah well we can dream about a world free of spam can't we?
I'm sure lots of us dreamed about a world where those draconian 2257 laws were gone and never to return and now perhaps that's close to becoming a reality. Perhaps dreaming will help rid us of spam too.