Speaking of seizing evidence and the current 2257 regs. One of the things 2257 (as it exists now) was written for is so that rather than seizing property, law enforcement would just have to ask the wembaster for the records.
But, this did not stop Mike Jones from CD Babes and L&M Entertainment from having every computer and camera and lights all seized by local authorities even though he had the records (and he keeps brilliant records and always has, super cross-indexed). For one this was an election year in his small midWestern town and second it was local enforcement.
So even the current 2257 will not prevent seizing of evidence, and that is among one of the many reasons for the initial law. Not a main reason, obviously, but something that was included in it.
As to large companies taking steps ... if you read the new law in its most simplest manner, programs customized or existing (yes, Content God included) can help track content, who is the content provider, to what image, to what URL However ...
If you read it as its most strictest, then videos can be done with DRM, but images cannot. Even if a program or dB is written that somehow could, the task would be monumental if not impossible. If it could be done at all, it would be an unwieldy financial burden (thus undoing the law)
Finally, how every webmaster could have the physcial copy of every license is again an impossibility. There is no way, flatly, that anyone is going to be able to abide by this law. Whether it is a strict or a liberal reading and interpretation. AND the DOJ knows it. As has been said, this is just trumped up BS for the election.
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