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Originally posted by SleazyDream
I really don't know the password site game or many of them at all. Just posing a question is all.
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Ok. So I would say that while its possible in theory to run a password site from a country where its legal to do so, in practice these sites are being run by people in countries where there are such laws, but for one reason or another those laws aren't being enforced.
No matter what country you live in or the laws it has, the internet is still the wild west of the 21st century. In order to draw law enforcement attention in cyberspace you have to be doing something particularly heinous, like kiddie porn, cracking banks, major CC fraud etc. The only other way you're gonna get caught is if someone takes civil action, as in the Shaw/Ultrapasswords thing, and not many people are willing to take the time & trouble to do that.
So password sites exist mostly because of a combination of two conditions. A: Law enforcement agencies have thier hands full dealing with more serious criminals, and B: Adult companies aren't willing to hunt down & close these sites one by one, because more will inevitably pop up. I guess the bottom line is that its far easier to deal with these people using anti-hacker scripts than by shutting 'em down.
I think its something we're just going to have to live with for a while, probably a long while.