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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

When they discover that Sammie Sparks is really 15, someone’s going to prison.

I am not sure what the problem is. It just requires that film makers keep records available for inspection.

It's the same as tracking guns: only the law-abiding will comply. Criminals will continue to break the law more than ever, while legitimate parties get snagged on BS "technicalities".

The people who comply with the new rules will be forced out of business on comma, punctuation, and minor record keeping snarls just like FFL holders.

This act protects the people who work illegally by chopping the more moderate producers into a bureaucracy grinder. Offshore producers benefit the most.

Market demand won't go down, but legit producers will.

I thought they were already required to do so under 18 U.S.C 2257.

The act extensively amends USC 2257. Bill text. I skimmed through it. I don't have time to study it for all implications, but I do see one significant change, where

(3) the term “produces” means to produce, manufacture, or publish any book, magazine, periodical, film, video tape, computer generated image, digital image, or picture, or other similar matter and includes the duplication, reproduction, or reissuing of any such matter, but does not include mere distribution or any other activity which does not involve hiring, contracting for managing, or otherwise arranging for the participation of the performers depicted; and

gets changed to

(2) the term `produces'--
                    ``(A) means--
                          ``(i) actually filming, videotaping, 
                      photographing, creating a picture, digital image, 
                      or digitally- or computer-manipulated image of an 
                      actual human being;
                          ``(ii) digitizing an image, of a visual 
                      depiction of sexually explicit conduct; or, 
                      assembling, manufacturing, publishing, 
                      duplicating, reproducing, or reissuing a book, 
                      magazine, periodical, film, videotape, digital 
                      image, or picture, or other matter intended for 
                      commercial distribution, that contains a visual 
                      depiction of sexually explicit conduct; or
                          ``(iii) inserting on a computer site or 
                      service a digital image of, or otherwise managing 
                      the sexually explicit content, of a computer site 
                      or service that contains a visual depiction of, 
                      sexually explicit conduct; and
                    ``(B) does not include activities that are limited 
                to--
                          ``(i) photo or film processing, including 
                      digitization of previously existing visual 
                      depictions, as part of a commercial enterprise, 
                      with no other commercial interest in the sexually 
                      explicit material, printing, and video 
                      duplication;
                          ``(ii) distribution;
                          ``(iii) any activity, other than those 
                      activities identified in subparagraph (A), that 
                      does not involve the hiring, contracting for, 
                      managing, or otherwise arranging for the 
                      participation of the depicted performers;
                          ``(iv) the provision of a telecommunications 
                      service, or of an Internet access service or 
                      Internet information location tool (as those terms 
                      are defined in section 231 of the Communications 
                      Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 231)); or

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                          ``(v) the transmission, storage, retrieval, 
                      hosting, formatting, or translation (or any 
                      combination thereof) of a communication, without 
                      selection or alteration of the content of the 
                      communication, except that deletion of a 
                      particular communication or material made by 
                      another person in a manner consistent with section 
                      230(c) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
                      U.S.C. 230(c)) shall not constitute such selection 
                      or alteration of the content of the communication; 
                      and
            ``(3) the term `performer' includes any person portrayed in 
        a visual depiction engaging in, or assisting another person to 
        engage in, sexually explicit conduct.''.

This change, particularly (2)A(iii) has implications for websites that host content that might be covered under the act, or links to such content

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.

Yeah, but this time, the law they are writing which is nearly identical REALLY MEANS IT.

Bush is a buffoon. With illegals flooding the country, this is his priority.