Porn Law Draws Adult Sites' Ire

"The internet is an international entity. This could be yet another incentive for websites to set up business elsewhere," said [business partner of veteran erotic photographer Suse Randall] Humphry Knipe. "This isn't a big deal for Hustler or Playboy, but what about some guy who operates a website out of his basement? Will he have to let agents into his home?"

Another requirement raising the ire of porn webmasters is a clause requiring that a statement regarding the location of the custodian of records be published in a typeface at least as large as that in which performers, producers, directors or company owners are displayed.

"If 'Playboy' is printed in 180 point type on a magazine cover, the 2257 disclosure would also have to be displayed in 180 point type," says DeWitt. "If you keep names in smaller size type, the law says it can't be smaller than 11 point type -- how does that work on websites or videotape, where font size is measured differently?"

"I could make a good case for the idea that these regulations are designed to harass people in the adult industry. We already have tough anti-child-porn laws," says DeWitt. "I see no good reason for many of these conditions, other than imposing an unnecessary harassment for people in a business which is a stated enemy of the Bush administration."