On or around Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:01:00 +0000, MVP
<mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net> enlightened us thusly:
>
>A website i use often, portfolio listing for photographers and models
>was recently stopped from usinf paypal because of the nudes on the
>website (all artistic, no filth). a much bigger and longer running
>website of the same format and content is continuing to use paypal for
>their subscriptions. When the guy who runs the smaller site in
>question mentioned this he was basically told to f*** off.
>
>miserable buggers.
ditto, apparently, for a load of the non-nude teen model sites in the
states. There's apparently been a rash of inept/dishonest billing companies
going down the tubes and not paying money they've taken on behalf of others
over to those others. Most or many of these sites are AFAIK legal -
non-nude, non-explicit, models have parental consent etc etc., but paypal
have apparently pulled the plug on all such (presumably, to stop traders in
illegal kiddie-pron) and as a result all these billing companies sprang up,
and are now falling down again.
I suggested in one of the forums that a group of the legit model-operators
got together and ran their own billing.
As to the morality of dealing in non-nude pictures of youngsters, well, I
dunno. I doubt it does much harm - and in all probability they can't be
traced through the websites - that's how it ought to be, certainly.
--
Austin Shackles.
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"My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent.
I shall attack. - Marshal Foch (1851 - 1929)
