Posted on 08/19/2007 6:21:50 PM PDT by ellery
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.
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Bad plastic surgery, for starters.
And she is entirely too thin. I have always been partial to healthy women.
I am not sure what the problem is. It just requires that film makers keep records available for inspection. I thought they were already required to do so under 18 U.S.C 2257.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002257——000-.html
Yeah, but I’m trying to keep my posts PG. ;)
“The identity of every performer is critical to determining and ensuring that no performer is a minor,” according to the new proposal.”
Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Porn Industry?
ANSWER THE QUESTION!
Not her boobs silly!
Her labiaplasty
Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Porn Industry?
ANSWER THE QUESTION!
No, but I satyed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
so this is what they’re doing instead of tracking down illegal aliens.
Minor or majora?
Porn Ultimatum...heh
Say what you will about the NY Post, but they come up with some entertaining headlines.
Number of people involved with the spread of TB, or getting murdered, involved in drunk driving, drug trafficking, in the porn industry? What about Illegals?
You make a very good point. But it’s racially not PC nor economically beneficial to go after the illegal. Just do some research once on TB in the US and where much of it comes from.
They already do. The Traci Lords thing cost a whole lot of people a whole lot of money. Morality schmorality, we're talkin' bottom line here.
When they discover that Sammie Sparks is really 15, someones going to prison.
10-4...
so if this employement verification and tracking pilot program works, it will be expanded to other sectors.
You have invoked the name. As a teenager, rifleing thru my old man closets for mags, Traci was a goddess. Had no idea I was older than she was.
If they are only after porn stars, I guess I won’t need to register.
Will they require registration of porn industry sound, light, grip, and cameramen too? Editors? These are the ones who stay, not the “stars”.
head count, heh heh
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