Cybernet may have ended on Wednesday, but because much of the crowd had already left the night before, the final day of the show was rather sparsely populated.
That didn’t mean it didn’t have its highlights though.
The day was punctuated by a look at the future of the industry and the Free Speech Coalition meeting, in which attorney Clyde DeWitt informed the crowd that the organization would be filing its lawsuit challenging the 2257 regulations this week.
“I expect it will be filed [Thursday] and we’ll be in court on Friday or Monday,” he said. “The government is going to come out with guns blazing, coming to people’s houses and knocking on people’s doors.
“This is all about Bush and God.”
FSC executive director Michelle Freridge cautioned webmasters against expecting too much from the suit.
“Be prepared if the injunction isn’t granted or if it isn’t granted in full,” she told the crowd.
As much of the Expo has been 2257 focused, the final day wasn’t much different. It was filled with questions, opinions, and warnings.
“Odds are somebody in this room, and maybe somebodies, are going to be in the crosshairs,” attorney Joe Obenberger said.
DeWitt went a step further.
“If you get inspected, expect the inspector to seize everything you got,” he said.
In the previous seminar, The Future of Global Adult Business, much of the talk focused on the ramifications of moving your business overseas to avoid 2257, something that apparently takes more planning than most webmasters have realized.
“Americans have a nasty habit of thinking the way we do business here makes it OK over there,” attorney Eric Bernstein, a regular on the seminar panels, said. “They quickly learn that’s not true.”
While the conversation took a welcome and lengthy turn into the mobile market during the global business presentation, it eventually came back to the place it has all week.
“Run for your lives, the sky is falling,” HotMovies.com director of business development James Seibert said. “It’s been falling and it will be falling next year. We’ll just keep going.”
