AmbientShade opened this issue on Jun 27, 2005 ยท 107 posts
davo posted Mon, 27 June 2005 at 10:40 PM
The law is not new, it's just not being enforced until recently. It is a 2 edged sword, it will protect the legitimate adult porn sites who are doing the correct record keeping by having the records on hand and it will discourage other porn sites that steal other peoples porn (you down wit O.P.P.?) from being in business. 10 years in prison per offense if you can't prove the documentation. The problem is not the law, and most legitimate porn sites are not concerned about this law, what they are concerned about is this: The government is putting the squeeze on the credit card companies who are in turn putting the squeeze on merchant processing companies to re-evaluate their clients and to not accept new porn sites. Being the owner of an erotic art site myself, the company that I deal with has been told that their merchant processing processing company was pulling down several of the sites under their umbrella. So, there it is. Try getting a mechant company to do your credit card processing for an adult site, you'll be in a world of hurt. Davo "been there, done that" Rama