The proof I am talking about is the proof we can see with our own two eyes i.e., the actors in said torrents. NOT A FUCKING COMPLIANCE STATEMENT.
I believe Jay is saying, "if an actor looks under-age, then the material is inappropriate for this site, even if there is a compliance statement." To be safe, I think this is a good approach, but we have to acknowledge that there's a lot of uncertainty here. While a 10-year-old is clearly a 10-year-old, it's a lot less clear when guys are older. I've taught at the junior/senior high and university levels, and I've seen lots of guys who were 20 and looked 16, as well a few who were 16 who looked 20. Mass media tends to distort our concept of age, because high school students are often played by actors who are 20, and college students are played by actors who are 25-30.
If this were a court of law, we could presume that a file is appropriate unless proven guilty. Unfortunately, we don't have any means of getting proof here–so the real question is, "how do we decide if something is inappropriate?" It comes back to instinct and subjective evaluation, which will never be perfect. If we err on the safe side (which I think is a good idea), we have to accept that some torrents with entirely legal content are going to be deleted or excluded. That's just the cost of doing business on a site like this. I think it's a small price to pay--and there's no shortage of other content available through this site.
On a related note, I would suggest that we use judgment in how we deal with people who upload considered-to-be-inappropriate content: It's one thing if the material is explicitly banned from this site or contains unquestionably underage actors--those people should probably be banned. But in the case of the video that started this thread--from a now-defunct website that claimed to be compliant with US age limits--I think the user seeding that material can be counseled about the site's policies and permitted to stay. I think we can be quick to condemn material, but we should be more cautious about condemning members.



