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Originally Posted by Konda
Trust me, I know who you are and I have respect for you and your company (and your stance on Mac vs PC), however I tink you are wrong in defending CCBILL in this situation. ESPECIALLY because you are a veteran in this industry.
I have processed with CCBILL for many years in the past (not small volume, we are talking a few 100,000US in processin per month) and I have partied with their crew at many shows back in the early 2000s.
However, what CCBILL is doing here is willingly processing for file-sharing sites. They have the right to do this. It is fully legal, they are protected by DMCA.
But it is still a stab in the back to the people that have been processing with CCBILL for 15 years and who are struggling because of piracy to see CCBILL processing for sites that are filled with pirated content. And CCBILL knows this, and all they say, business is business, if you have a problem just send a DMCA. By doing that they give a big fuck you to the industry that made them big.
In addition by processing for these file-sharing sites they take a risk of processing for illegal content. Everyone can upload whatever they want to these sites, and CCBILL is processing for it, so if someone decides to upload CP or bestiality (which is of course happening as we can see in the other threads) CCBILL is actively processing for this content. They know this, but do not seem to care.
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I actually saw this coming along time ago, when all these ex girlfriend sites came along. Non 2257 compliant sites being processed by CCBILL. I had some communication with them about it, and it was all swept under the rug, and that niche continued to explode.
Nobody saw a problem with it there.
And trust me, CCBill are reading these posts. I took a peek on who was looking at my gfy profile after making some criticisms about my signups dropping off.... and noticed James@ccbill checked out my profile. Which is fine, I don't really care. Im not trying to hide from anyone, even though this looks like a fake nic.
However my paysites still process through ccbill (LOL, fucking barely) the affiliate program is still with ccbill. I have been loyal to ccbill for it seems 15 years now (just a guess).
Ive watched this industry fall apart piece by fucking piece. Ive seen soo many people who have been revered and respected by many people, turn around and fuck those people in the ass. CCbill, imo was the last of the great unmolested institutions in this business.
Now, it looks like it may actually be time to close up shop and move on.
I refuse to be unethical, I refuse to fuck people over and lie to them.
I feel sorry for all the honest business people who gave everything they had and are now getting runover by crooks and thieves.
I went to the playboy mansion to a webmaster access show years ago, and adult friend finder was a sponsor. Lars was wearing a big white fur coat and driving a flat black old convertible, in truly pimpin style.
It was a sign of the times for me. At that moment, I started to see the unity and integrity of the business unravel.
Not that there wasn't always fucking weasels and trolls out there. But, this was a sign that unethical bullshit was finally accepted.