Except for those named in the injunction, 18 U.S.C. 2257 has gone into effect. My understanding of it: If you have dirty pictures on the web, you’re expected to comply with this regulation, namely that you have to have keep an onerous pile of data for each image, regardless of whether you produced the image or bought it from another source. As near as I can tell, it even applies to those of us who like to post amateur images of our own endeavors free of charge. I’m probably going to have to pull a photo gallery I’ve had up for a few years now, even though they’re all of me.

Heck, anyone else notice how Yahoo!’s been canning porn groups left and right lately? How about all the sites Wire mentioned? Yup, that’s the chill.

The whole thing takes the wind out my sail when it comes to Mary Carey’s recent meet-the-president coup. I was going to celebrate the fact that pariah capitalism had a place at the RNC table — that their money was as good as any other capitalist’s — but now I can only take scant satisfaction that the fundie right had “a moment” over Mary Carey’s over-the-top appearance.

Critical links:

PDF Overview of 2257 regulations .

Every Webmaster’s Primer on 2257 Compliance By J.D. Obenberger.

New 2257 Regs: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly By Mark Kernes.

The Latest news at AVN.

Special thanks to Adrienne Benedicks at the Erotica Readers and Writers Association for the links.

We can only hope that the injunction will be broadened to include all websites as objections to the regulation proceeds through the courts.