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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
I simply prefer to pick my battles, and this is not one worth fighting, to me personally. However, DBW has his own motives, and business to run. I like DWB on a personal level, and I am not saying he is necessarily right or wrong. However, I simply do not see the point in all this.
I am essentially trusting them to not rip me, or my members, off. Trusting my members billing information with them. Trusting I will be paid for my memberships, and so forth. I am putting a lot of trust in them to remain IN business. If they had a question, like in this DWB case, I would just block out the non-essential (contact) info and show them whatever so I could get back to business. Not make a federal case about it, nor lose my rebills or effect my customers negatively over something like this.
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In addition to thinking it is wrong for a processor to ask for such documents, lets look at one more, highly improbable freak of chance. Some of the countries I shoot in (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba) would literally arrest the model in question and she would spend the rest of her days rotting behind bars, for making porn. So long as her true identity is safe with me, and my sites blocked from her country, there will never be a problem. As soon as I start passing those IDs around and someone knows so much as her name, if that somehow, in some freak chance, got to the wrong hands, she is fucked.
Now, one of the models in question is Cuban, and lives IN Cuba, where the scene was shot. Lets say someone on staff at Epoch is Cuban and they tell someone in their family they just saw Cuban porn for the first time and her name was XXXXXXX. This person talks, that person talks, it makes it back to Cuba somehow and the girl is arrested.
OF COURSE that is a reach, but stranger things have happened. I once shot a black girl in BRAZIL who I met at random, who happened to turn out to be the girlfriend of one of my friends who lives in FRANCE. What are the odds of that? Shit happens. I also know a person who has been struck by lightning THREE TIMES. What are the odds of that? Or, what if one of them KNOWS this girl and is trying to confirm its her for various reasons?
My point is, shit happens. But shit doesn't happen on my watch, with my models, do to my reckless behavior.
This is not even getting into the rouge, sicko employee. Nor is it getting into the fact that they will continue to ask for more and more and more and more until you can't send the IDs and docs to them blacked out. They will baby step their way into it, just as everything else is baby stepped into play.
Last but not least, there are others who welcome my small business, without the hassle of showing them IDs of models who are clearly of age.
I like Epoch. I've been to their office and seen how they do things. But that does not mean I trust every employee inside of their swank office. Hell, I don't trust 90% of the people in this business in general.