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Originally Posted by AdultKing
In my opinion the only way to get cam programs like AWE to respond to the issue of piracy is to hit their merchant accounts. If anyone has any better ideas I'd like to hear them.
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While it is true that the only way to stop piracy operations it is to cut their biller and money streams (let it be advertising), also think at side effects. Note that I am not actively against piracy, I am simply not promoting it, and keeping myself safe from any side effect I may get by have anything to do with them, or by sharing providers with them, up to what's possible.
For example I use the same bank and biller system of AWE for my merchant, that's also used by visit-x in germany and other cam sites, that I don't think are advertising in piracy sites. What if you or anyone else messes with the same infrastructure I use, and that other (innocent at least about piracy) companies are sharing? There's not many adult merchant providers and all of them bill for at least one of those cam sites you often talk about.
Why sharing biller it matters? I once used a payment processing system, ok honest people, who was however also used by someone for gambling processing (without their knowledge): when the gambling guy was investigated, the judge let seize the whole payment processor with all accounts, not just the account of the gambling idiot - so I had some $80,000 seized and got back only part of it after like a year, and I was fully innocent, as well as the processors (well, they had perhaps to check deeper all their user's business, to catch the gambler early, but...).
Regarding hosting, I went with MojoHost after checking that, up to my knowledge, they host no any "illegal tube" or piracy or whatever bad site it may be seized at any time. Some of their competitors had nice prices and reviews, but they are hosting lots of questionable sites (some you talked about too), so I did not wanted to risk to share datacenters with people who may cause "too large" seizures, including my "innocent" sites.
Especially because, adult sites are not deemed as innocent by most banks or judges, no mater you paid tax and all, so if you get into a side effect and complain, people in charge may think "but that's a porn site, sure made something wrong anyway, and God hates him, let's keep him seized/in trouble".