One might mention that this isn't really going to be about law, or what is legal. This is going to be about how much the first one hammered is going to be able and have to spend to defend and define their position.
The last time the feds went after porn producers, the "lucky" ones spent in excess of a million in legal fees to stay out of jail. The not so lucky one I know personally did 18 months in jail. Not neccessarily because he was guilty but because if he hadn't made the deal for the time, it was highly likely that more than one of his employees might have done time, simply for being an employee.
This isn't the first time the feds have gone after internet porn, and I'm sure it won't be the last. But the cost of defense, whether you're in the right or the wrong, is sometimes enough to break a business, leaving it a shell of what it was.
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