The number 2257 might not mean much to you unless you already create porn for a living, but newly revised US Department of Justice rules regulating the ways adult content is distributed on the web (particularly the way "secondary producer" is defined) are going to effect all of us rank-and-file horndogs in some way sooner or later. Is this the beginning of the end of web smut as we know it, or are adult media watchdogs like AVN getting their panties in a bunch over nothing? We'll know more when the new statutes go into effect next month; in the meantime, any porn-friendly First Amendment lawyers out there willing to share their perspective on the ensuing brouhaha are welcome to contact us. (Or at least bake us a cake with a file in it when we're imprisoned for ten years for publishing a 150x100 pixel thumbnail image of naked boobies without the proper documentation.)

· "New 2257 Regulations Published", "New 2257 Regs: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly", and "Yes, They Are Going to Change the Way This Business is Conducted" (AVN)
· "Amended 2257 Regulations Published in Federal Register" (Xbiz)
· The Attorney General's Changes to the Section 2257 Regulations (execpc.com/~xxxlaw)

Previously: Obscenity Task Force, Obscenity, Then and Now, XXX Law, US vs. Extreme Associates, Round 2, Nitke vs. Ashcroft, War On Pornography, Porn Free!, "Perversion For Profit"