@raphjd:
As I said in the mod section, there are respectable and responsible porn companies that use young looking guys for their videos; ie AYOR, Eurocreme, BA, Hammer, etc, etc, etc.
There will always be cases like Brent Corrigan's where he used convincing fake ID to get into the business. This is the reason no one from Cobra or porn dealers were arrested over it. The videos were recalled and that was that, except for the civil suit between Corrigan and Cobra. Traci Lords is another example of an under age porn star who used fake ID. We can never protect ourselves from this, except delete them from the site and our hard drives if/when they are made known.
To be safe, we should only allow videos of guys with grey hair. Oh wait, my uncle Pete was bald and completely grey at 17. Damned, that rule won't work either.
NOTE 1: True kiddie porn will always be banned. In this thread we are talking about under age {16 -17}.
NOTE 2: We won't ban people for posting questionable stuff, only the stuff that is on the banned list.
There is a difference between a guy that looks like he just turned 18 and a guy that is obviously younger than that. I don't think any of these actors you speak of from TV shows were actually meant to be seriously believable as significantly younger than they were they were simply the right person for the role. Isn't it a running joke that these teen dramas are slightly out of touch from reality?
We can protect ourselves by disassociating ourselves with content where actors may or may not be underage. We've illustrated several times now how our eyes are the best judge. I understand that there may be in your eyes several reputable studios that use young looking guys but who's to say they just haven't been caught or even will be?
I never said the site should condemn those who Download or Upload questionable content unless they continue to upload such content to the site.
The Brent Corrigan and Tracy Lords cases were highly publicized cases due in part to the characters involved and the way things were handled… I'm sure they are many other cases where things were handled much quieter. Cases like this would be avoidable if this industry was so dangerously obsessed with youth which is far more than it is in mainstream Hollywood. I'm not saying actors should be grey and balding before they should be allowed to do porn but at least old enough as to clearly depict two consensual adults engaging in sexual acts.
In terms of the way I think the law would view such cases where actors are much younger than they appear much like you "Uncle Pete" much differently than when actors CLEARLY appear to be on the younger side. Even though we are talking about 16-17 year olds who some would consider to be capable of making their own decisions or adults in their own right in the eyes of the law they are not.
There is no one true solution to this problem because each will have it's own pro's and it's own cons. I do feel however that the amount of content purged whether it be within compliance or not is small compared to the damages caused by keeping it here.
BTW IMHO the torrent file that started this conversation the actors appeared to be more along the lines of 15-16.