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Paul, I had a long (and very animated discussion) on another board a couple of years back with someone who wanted to run a certain type of site that Visa would not process for. That webmaster was really frustrated and wanted to take Visa on and make a big stink.
The reality is this: Visa and Mastercard process for adult "just barely". In many cases, I think they are looking for a really good reason to go out the door. They know they can't, they know they would face massive lawsuits if they do, so instead they impose strict rules and somewhat odd limitations to try to keep the processing to pretty normal sites run by verifiable webmasters pushing out reasonably vanilla porn.
If you kick at Visa, their reaction isn't to fight back. They will coil up into a smaller ball, added more and more restrictions and more and more limitations and more and more unreasonable fees, attempting to weed out what is causing them pain. They don't want to be the porn police. They don't want to be the standard measurements. They are not interested.
What they appear to want is for porn to become a few dozen really large companies that they can deal with on a corporate level, dictating how the playing field will work, what is acceptable, and what is not. All these mom and pop porn operators are an annoyance, a pain to administer, and a pain to keep up with. Give them a reason to drop us, and they will find a way.
The issues of torrent sites (or any site) that contains CP links (or even CP like links) is an issue that the industry as a whole needs to address. Sadly, two of the largest players (AFF and AVN) appear to be leading the offenders rather than leading us to higher ground, and that sucks. It's up the rest of us to encourage them to do a better job.
Getting Visa involved would just bring pain and suffering to the wrong people.
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