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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
You are missing my point.
If you want to do business with EPOCH, or anyone, you comply to their terms. Doing business with that business, and their contract and terms of service supersede the laws.
Same as a mainstream webhost does not allow adult sites, and will kill your account. Adult sites are not illegal in the U.S., or most of the world, but their TOS supersede them. Same as PayPal will freeze your account, or seize your funds for processing adult virtual transactions. They are not illegal, per se, but they are against their TOS and will close your account.
The point is. If you want to do business with them, and you agree to their T.O.S., you follow their rules period. It is not a 2257 issue, as being broadly painted. It is a compliance issue.
EPOCH supposedly get a complaint. They want to verify, as any processor would, that the models in the complaint are legal before their merchant bank or VISA get involved and start fining them, or drop them.
EPOCH has to think about more than just one DWB, and about all their clients they process for when it comes to compliance, and their merchant bank.
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The coin has two sides. If they want MY business, even though it is small, they have to work within my terms and privacy policy as well.
Also, I don't have the contract in front of me. It was signed a long time ago. I'm curious to see if they even state they have the right to view the IDs or not. Even if it does state they can do that, Epoch is not the only game in town so I don't have to follow their rules.
Last, if they want to see IDs and documents, I say again... WHY ARE THEY ABOVE THE FBI OR OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES? Why can they fire off an email when the FBI has to go to your place of business during normal business hours, to see the same thing?