Billing is essential for the success of any adult site, and third party processors are the life blood of the adult industry. That said, I would like to see them step up and help us defeat .xxx. It is even in their own best interest to do so.
I would like to put out a call for CCbill and Epoch to help the communities they serve.
Since the .XXX tld has been rammed down our throats when we have been pretty clear that we don’t want it, it came to me that we could actually kill it in it’s tracks, before any damage is done, before any government blocks it, before any state forbids ISPs in that state to pass it to consumers, before any government forces us on to .XXX.
All that has to happen is for CCBill and Epoch to refuse to bill for .XXX sites. That makes them worthless overnight.
What say you CCBill? Epoch? Will you help the industry on this one?
FSC…feel free to run with this idea…..
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CCBill does processing for piracy sites. I have 0% belief they’d take any kind of ethical stand.
In our industry…money talks, ethics walks.
The amazing thing about CCbill is, they will flag a site during the approval process for the DUMBEST things imaginable, then turn around and process for sites that have clearly stolen all of their content and are not 2257 compliant. They even knowingly process for sites with minors on them now, but don’t you dare mention on your site that you paid a model for the shoot or for sex because they will drop the hammer on you. They won’t even permit a single image of a model holding money of any kind. But if you rip my entire site and submit it to CCbill for approval, they will approve it and gladly profit from it.
Makes my head spin.
CCBill and other payment companies need to start doing what they have to do, to get rid of or make it not mandatory to use .XXX.
With Stuart Lawley’s vision of the Paypal of porn he’s not really going to need the other guys especially in the future. Because isnt that what .XXX is all about? Tax and control?
The payment processors better start brainstorming to destroy the ICM control freaks because if they dont, most of their cash cows if not all will be gone…