Attorney Lawrence G. Walters talks about what the new Department of Justice revisions to the 2257 regulations really mean to webmasters and site owners.

That being said, many of you are probably not aware of what exactly happens to cause Federal Agents to come knocking on your door in a not-so-Three’s-Company kind of way.

The Justice Department just released a newly revised Section 2257, 167 pages in length (ouch!), and I foresee American webmasters making “update every single page of every single website I own” as part of their resolutions for 2009.

One of the appeals for the Lords case went before the United States Supreme Court. Congress had no choice, due to public outcry, but to pass legislation “imposing certain obligations on the producers of graphical representations of actual, explicit sexual conduct”.

I was asked to present a visual version of the 2257 paperwork and accompanying documentation, so I’m going to show you here what’s actually required.

I mentioned briefly the legal battle that Joe Francis and Mantra Films of “Girls Gone Wild” fame went through in my intial post about 2257 paperwork. It’s important to note a case like this in more depth because it shows you exactly how the 2257 paperwork works to protect minors.

It seems that as long as there are people willing to create adult entertainment in its many forms, there will always be a battle between the liberal free speech and art advocates, and the decision to uphold the moral protection of general society by government.