Porn Valley Dispatch

While one of life
s simple pleasures is the sending of confidential material over the internet, the thorny issue of maintaining 2257 documentation—the slew of material a porn actor must provide to show he or she is of legal age, in addition to a valid address and a legal name—is ripe for abuse. And guess what? Someone's abusing it as you're reading this. Details after the jump.- G. Ponante

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A man purporting to be the 2257 documentarian of an east coast porn company—that is, the guy responsible for getting the real names and addresses of models to prove they are not underage (even when the shoot might be a MILF/gerontophile title)—says he "has plans" for the shitload of names, addresses, and pictures of porn stars his company has on file.

The man calls himself "Atomic Punk" and has already published several pictures of people he says he has the goods on, reveling in the fact that he gets paid for this kind of access. (Sources at adult webmaster board GFY says he's an assistant to the lawyer of Pleasure Productions, for whatever that's worth.)

As you well know, the adult business has a proud tradition of shooting itself in the foot (in much the same way my neighbor this year shot himself in the foot with a nail gun, except less funny) and those wishing ill on the porn industry would be doubly pleased if such a Paris Hilton-level breach of privacy from within resulted in a chilling of people wanting to get in the industry, fearing disclosure of something more valuable than, say, an anal cherry. Maybe Alberto Gonzalez isn't the real enemy after all.

· "I knew this was gonna happen
(gfy.com)
· "WHY 2257 is a REALLY Bad Idea" (mikesouth.com, 9/19 entry)

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Previously: Porn Valley Dispatch Archive