Credit cards and porn sites.

[JamesW]

Gdickiner wrote:

> The odds are, due to the varying nature of laws from country to
> country, and a rather dubious nature of the porn business, that
> there will be a high chance you've associated with unlawful
> content.

What nonsense. Do you have any evidence to substantiate this claim?

m100 posted a much more sensible opinion.


> All the law sees is that your cash goes into Company A's bank
> account. And Company A is breaking the law.

Nonsense again. The 'law' doesn't work that way at all. Investigations so far have been into subscribers to SPECIFIC ILLEGAL SITES.

Your concept of guilt by association is hard to take seriously.


> And nobody, nobody, in there right mind hands
> over there credit card details to someone over the Internet to
> see porn and does not expect something bad to happen (although,
> usually, it's just random charges and credit card cloning).

This isn't true either. I personally know many people who regularly use credit cards to subscribe to porn sites - and nothing bad has happened to them.

If what you said was true, credit card issuers would not allow their cards to be used for subscribing to porn sites, just as some credit cards can't be used on gambling sites.

[rastansaga]

+1 to conan's reply. Spot on

[Paul L]

+2 to conan's reply

[JamesW]

+3 to conan's reply !

[cuthelx]

I would like to say +4, but studying the flaws of Operation Ore, all of it was about Credit Card purchases and assumptions made thereafter, it was not about looking at free sites!

[one eyed jack]

+5 from me

[Simon]

+6

[JamesW]

ConanB wrote:

> That was exactly my point, anybody that got done I can
> guarantee you wouldn't have used CCbill or Epoch. It would have
> been some dodgy Russian processor.


Your point is a good one, although the processor concerned was actually in Texas, not Russia.