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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy
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.
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Actually, I think this does make your situation kind of different from the average one. On the one hand, I understand a compliance department doing a spot check for age and it would seem negligent for CCBill to roll with someone Epoch was concerned about, after such a big public thread. But I'm honestly stunned that the GF sites flourish and get standard processing because, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, they would surely fail such a spot check, so why hassle a legit producer instead?
On the other hand, I've sent my own ID to more than one billing company just to get set up and more than one affiliate program who claimed they needed it for 1099 and most of those companies have hit me up a second time for ID. Which means to me that none of them are all that careful with how they file and protect that information. I like Epoch, but there are definitely some other companies I wish I had not sent my info to because it does appear to have been misused.