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The Department of Justice wants to come up with an official list of every porn star in America – and slap stiff penalties on producers who don’t cooperate.

The new rules, proposed under the Adam Walsh Child Safety and Protection Act, would require blue-movie makers to keep photos, stage names, professional names, maiden names, aliases, nicknames and ages on file for the inspection of the department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.

“The identity of every performer is critical to determining and ensuring that no performer is a minor,” according to the new proposal.

The adult film industry plans to challenge the new rule as a violation of the First Amendment, said Paul Cambria, a lawyer for Hustler and other adult film companies.

He sees it as a way to harass legitimate stag-film producers.

“If they can’t get you for obscenity, they’ll get you for violating record-keeping,” he said. Such a violation would carry a five-year penalty.

The proposed rule would require porn producers to give the title of the video or magazine, or the Web address where the actor appears.

The Department of Justice has shown some sensitivity for the performers’ privacy, however. All information not essential to proving their age and identity, like phone numbers and addresses, can be withheld.

I wonder how many statutes state “to protect the children” as a reason for its existence? I’m glad to see that you can withhold your phone number and address. That implies they ask for it anyway even though they claim not to need it. This is another useless law aimed at gathering more info on people not protecting anyone. Any organization who hired someone underage unknowingly would have a false identity and age probably. Those who would hire a minor wouldn’t turn over that information or would lie.

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