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Originally posted by Sly_RJ
You know more than me about this obviously, so please continue to explain how the analogy of a guy renting a video from a store compares to a webmaster buying content from a provider? Shouldn't the true comparison be the video store buying from the video provider?
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The "true comparison" does not matter. The example is valid no matter how you look at it...Perfect? No, but still valid. As for the video store buying it...Fine, look at it that way and the question is still the same. How many video store owners have 2257 docs on file? NONE.
Webmasters are secondary producers and as such, they have the option to supply the primary producers custodial info OR list themselves as custodian IF they have ALL of the required components. No offense meant to you or any other webmasters but let's look at this situation with 100% honesty.
The average webmaster has no fucking clue about how 2257 REALLY affects them. They are running scared or in some cases they do not even care at all. Now this person wants to take on additional responsibilities and place themselves in harms way of a law that they do not even have a basic understanding for.
How fucking stupid is that? Top this off with the fact that the ID's they get are already altered AND the fact that simply having the ID's does not make them compliant.
I fully understand the "want" of the webmasters to protect themselves but if you can not trust your content provider then you should not be buying from them in the first place, [i]especially[/i if that provider lives in a different country than you do.