Porn Valley- In federal regulations 2257, the Department of Justice has created this sword of Damocles that may be too cumbersome for even it to handle. I was chatting with XXX Thursday night who brings up some great points about porno ID’s and what’s going to be a ball busting and daunting task for the Feds.

XXX also points out that porn companies regularly steal scenes from other companies, fit them into comps and, thus, have no valid paperwork as such. I’m told that Leisuretime which regularly buys scenes is an exemption in that the company is extremely database-oriented and would have such records. I’m told that Factory is selling something like 1500 titles. Does it have all the paperwork to underwrite these movies?

“If I were a lot of these companies,” continues XXX, “in the next 30 days I’d blow all my stock titles out the door. And not use the title any more. Get rid of everything you have in stock. Consider the footage dead. But a lot of companies will be too cheap and too stupid to retire these titles.”

My own personal suspicion is that the Feds don’t have the forensic manpower to sniff out these paper trails. XXX adds another point. “When you watch a movie, a female performer looks a certain way,” he says. “But in her ID she looks, often, totally different. It doesn’t look like the same girl because she isn’t in hair and makeup. Somebody like the Feds say that’s not the same girl. You say, but that’s the girl we photographed. These girls pose for a picture that says their name is Lola Spitzcue but their porn name is Tonya Belline. Now you’re left also having to prove this is one and the same girl. Who’s to say? That’s the value of $250 of hair and makeup. The first time I met Jenna was in Cannes- she’s in jeans and a t-shirt. Flat hair, quiet, unassuming. I knew it was her but if I looked at that photo ID and her the way she looks in a movie, it’s like trying to figure out the many phases of Madonna. Can you imagine the Feds going that’s not her? Welcome to the industry.

“For arguments sake, I can’t wait until the Feds send in people to audit books. Accountants and CPA are forensically trained, but what guy do you have to decipher a black and white Xerox copy of a driver’s license? And then you’ve got the situation of some girls, over the years, working under a bunch of different names. Even if this is done correctly, and you’ve got 12 aliases, now for one performer alone you’ve got 20 different folders. That should give them a headache. How many movies do you have Tom Byron in? 280. Here’s all the folders, call me in a week. They’re going to be blinded. It’s just too hard.”