By JANON FISHER
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.
Ok now can someone explain to me how this will cut down on child pornography. They don't sell it in stores nor do they keep records of the poor children etc they use in them. Regular consenting adults are who this targets. Thoughts and opinions?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
7 comments:
Do you think the viewers care? We all have to be accountable for our actions
This is ridiculous. I'm all for protecting children and not allowing minors to be involved in porn. But of these businesses that they say might be affected, how many have a track record of allowing minors to do porn scenes?
People that produce kiddie porn should go to jail. This law isn't going after people that are breaking the law. I haven't really heard of anything (underage performers)since the Tracey Lord thing and that was years ago. Politicians that feel a need to propose legislation simply to justify their position or re-election are one of the biggest problems in politics.
TO
I'm not so sure about this either. I will be the first to say that I am a conservative of color (not a neo-con or evangelical cat) and we have to be realistic that in this day and age (terrorism, illegal immigration, etc) you are going to expect SOME intrusions but child porn is such an underground enterprise that I don't get the connection. The last time the industry witnessed someone underage in adult films was Traci Lords and that was prety much it. Perhaps the government should keep tabs on the producers exclusively of adult films due to their financial abilities and access but not the actors...that seems more logical.
The Afronerd
Ah..just another way to find out which performers are paying taxes and which ones are not....
The government pretty much looks at porn like stripping...Strippers dont pay taxes, so they assume that film actors dont either....*shrugs shoulders
I do not believe that its fair because what other industry has they required that of. You may not agree with the content, but everyone has a right to make a living how they choose. They are doing it within the limits of the law. I think more people are harmed by tobacco companies than porn stars, lets get all the ceos names to the judicial system of those people instead.
I guess Dubya doesnt want 'the terrorists' whackin' off to our porn anymore.
Remeber, if you don't cooperate, "the terrorists win".
One more year of Bush and his Gestapo crap.
Getting adult film stars personal information won't stop child porn, because the sick people who shoot these videos do them in secrect, and underground.
Porn stars already work underground, and the Gov. bothering porn stars will just make them go even more under ground.
I personal think politicans get some sexual fantasy pleasure messing with top porn stars like Ayana. (Maybe it's there way of trying to get a hook-up on the Down Low)
Post a Comment