The entire situation is bizarre. EBay still auctions off porn but you can't use their subsidiary, PayPal to purchase it. I hope one of these class actions will go far enough to shed some light on the inner workings of these folks. It really does seem like there is a HUGE opportunity here for someone to set up an international payments system. Where are the Swiss bankers when you need them? Of course as soon as it became apparent that you could use it to pay for - shudder - "adult" products, they'd suddenly be discovered to be funneling money to terrorists and banned from the US.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken