An Atvod spokesman added: ‘The material that appears on the free services is placed there by the paid services to attract customers to sign up to subscriptions.
‘As long as the paid service placed content on a free service without age verification it would be in breach of its licensing conditions and so would not be able to access funds from the UK.
‘We're not saying this will stop all children seeing all pornography online.
‘But our argument is that even if you reduce the number of children who are accessing hardcore pornography online by 10 per cent, that would be a significant win.’
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So if a firm a pays the affiliate a check. How will the banks know if the site is licenced or not.
For instance say there is a big tube site and the chap who owns it gets a check. In many cases it may simply be in the name of the owner, such as MrBrown. So how will the bank know MrBrown owns that big porn site.
Also some firms use a separate firm for checks, so the firm sending the check (say bigboobsofleeds.net) may use a firm called tzxt checks ltd, who deal with adult and non adult. Again, is the bank going to trace each check?
I do not see why any non UK site is even going to take notice of this.
And we have the problem of working out what porn is and is not.
Its also dishonest in what they are saying, as up to know they have stated they will only cover sites with films. So are they going to still only treat site with vids, in other words any site that is pics only or does not host films, still stay exempt, or will they now try to include these?
And what do they consider an age check?
One presumes they will expect the only real use is such as a credit card. By this you pay a $1 to access the site. One suspects that just saying you are 18 by clicking a box will not be sufficient.
Its unlikely that any tube site, or blog or indeed a forum will request people use a credit card to prove there age.
In reality what atvod are stating is simply not possible.
And as I have stated, do not think that a or you 18 box will be enough to satisfy atvod.
It is also wanting sites to get a licence. Do we believe this would be free? Of course not.
And if in the UK, atvod can do this, then surly the logic is other countries also will. So could we have a situation that if you run a blog, you may have to get (and pay for) a licence from every country in the world?
Are banks really going to be abel to deal with this? I would suspect most accounts are not in the sites name (ie, one would suspect that money generated from you as youporn does not get paid into an account called youporn).
It is suspected this is nothing to do with preventing under 18's accessing porn but more to do with atvod generating income.