As a pay site owner I am required to send scans of passport and driving licence to every billing processor I have used. Epoch, CCBill, Verotel, etc..
As an affiliate gets paid 50% of all sales they refer to me I think that it is perfectly acceptable for that billing provider to screen the payee.
As a sponsor it is nice to know that we are not giving part of our revenue away to shady people organizations.
As said, unless you have anything to hide I don't see what the big deal is.
Personally I have not 100% agreed with Epoch's business principles and have had my own run ins with them. But looking at all the bad press that other third party billers have had recently for supporting piracy, missing payments, etc..it's kind of nice to see Epoch adding a little extra screening to avoid inadvertently being associated with the wrong clientèle!
