I appreciate your 'take' on this matter. However, IMHO at least, the potential banning of 'proxy' servers for commercial websites ... and the potential accessibility of the real names and personal details of commercial website owners ... isn't an 'isolated' topic. Instead it is part of a larger trend regarding loss of 'privacy' in general, and loss of 'privacy' for adult industry workers in particular. Where camgirls are concerned, facial recognition search technology already seems to be a major future threat. How long will it be before an applicant for a straight job will routinely have their picture snapped on the way into a job interview, and before the interview is over the interviewer's printer starts spewing out screencaps / video frames of a person with a matching face riding a Hitachi ?The reason I have been so aggressively pushing with this subject is the girls need to PREPARE NOW.
If it passes and you have not found suitable arrangements you will be left grabbing for help which may not be in your best interests.
There WILL be sharks wanting to offer their names for girls to use for a "price" -and I don't like that at all
I guess the point that I'm actually trying to make is this. While forming a corporation and 'correctly' utilizing that corporation to provide a layer of separation between a girl's adult industry work and her personal identity might be effective in regard to this particular issue of 'proxies' being banned for commercial websites, in terms of the overall situation it is only a 'band-aid'. At some point, camgirls need to consider the growing reality that their adult industry work is not going to be able to be kept a 'secret' in the future ... and need to decide whether the probable negative side effects are something they can accept.
And to add to this question, the fact is that IRS 1099-misc reports from adult industry payers, as well as webcam customer / tube site postings of camgirl images / video clips, are already creating a 'body of evidence' which will still exist in future years. As such, were a camgirl to decide today that she is not willing to accept the negative side effects of having her adult industry related work publicly known, and if she were to decide to stop camming tomorrow, there are no guarantees that the 'body of evidence' she has already created won't still turn up in the future. However, where new regulations potentially banning 'proxies' are concerned, the 'body of evidence' has yet to include a direct WHOIS record linking ownership of an adult website to a particular girl's real name and other personal info.
Admittedly this situation sucks ... but, given the powerful 'vested interests' involved, I really don't see a whole lot of realistic alternatives. Granted that some non-US based camgirls / adult website owners may be in a slightly 'better' situation ... for the moment at least.



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