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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by Godel_unicode on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:25PM (#26705976)
You're aware that the vast majority of amateur porn is some person sending some other person nudes, right? You're effectively arguing for everyone should have to provide ID with every "u up??". Let's not make the insane over-enforcing of nudes worse.
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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by lostcolony on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:40PM (#26706117)
Of course not; but if you're a company profiting from it being put online it seems reasonable to expect a level of due diligence.
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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by throwaway_kufu on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:32PM (#26706568)
If you don’t check ID and age, then you are recklessly running the risk of hosting underage pornography and revictimizing minors with every impression.

If anyone recalls the old “Girls Gone Wild” days where they sold videos/dvds via late night info commercials there was a very famous criminal case and civil lawsuit that put them out of business because they filmed underage girls who produced fake identification...while most crimes require intent and the fake ID would generally have made it possible to prove intent, underage sex/pornography is a strict liability crime so if it happens it’s criminal regardless of intent.

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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by abduhl on Monday April 05, 2021 @09:24PM (#26706955)
Wikipedia seems to indicate that the Girls Gone Wild folks survived the lawsuit that you're talking about and were eventually driven out of business due to other legal problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_Gone_Wild_(franchise)#Le...

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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by throwaway_kufu on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:58AM (#26710011)
You are reading into the dates far to much, and they didn’t survive the underage girl criminal and civil cases.

Subsequent to those underage cases which began in 2003 additional civil lawsuits were also brought against the company for other issues, but those underage cases were still ongoing.

A different example would be the Hogan/Gawker case which started in 2013. The company faced other lawsuits after, but it was the hogan case that pushed them into bankruptcy because it didn’t end until 2016.

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