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Originally Posted by adultmobile
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.
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Unless you share Merchant Accounts then you are completely safe.
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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...).
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As I said above unless you are sharing Merchant Accounts then you are quite safe.
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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.
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Usually with hosting, seizures of servers is usually restricted to the servers that the unlawful activity is being carried out on. However most times the pirates will not know that they are being looked at because the servers drives are cloned with a warrant and the required evidence is taken without disrupting the servers.
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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".
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You'll find the only collateral damage suffered from what we do is that when we deny services to commercial piracy then often server bills are not paid, affiliates of the pirates are not paid and people actually in some way connected to the piracy suffer a loss. Which is how it should be.