Longwatcher
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Followed this kind of thing, for many years.
It started in the 1990's with the we must protect the chi***en bullshit, but then they discovered they could pressure credit card companies.
Although a few things go farther back to the 1970's when I first started watching adult stuff. there was a belief for several decades prior to that, in that they believed sexual intercourse and bondage together was not legal, but around the 1970's was when some folks actually researched the laws and could find nothing about that being true. So that was when you would start seeing videos with both sex and bondage together.
Side note on that though in in the silent and pre code era, some adult movies had that together, but kind of disappeared even from porn once the code took effect (or at least I can not find many examples after that point until the 1970's).
On PayPal,
Digital nudity and especially Porn bad
Physical item okay as long as there is NOT gratuitous nudity on the website.
I have to date never had a problem with PayPal other then the one time we transferred the business account to me personally from one of the partners, even though the address was my house in both cases. Had to send them more info than I really wanted to prove I was me.
Interestingly they do not generally have a problem if you sell a digital copy on a physical medium (such as USB drive, CD, DVD), or at least not a problem as long as you keep the images/videos on the web site "clean". (I always listed it as CD or USB key with data on the invoice). Been years since I needed to do this though.
And on a note, unless I am saving up for a purchase I plan on using PayPal for, I will mostly clear my PayPal once per week if it is over $500, I usually leave between $50 and $100 for small purchases. If it gets over $2500, I transfer at my earliest opportunity minus any potential funds I need. even in the middle of the week. While happening less, PayPal still has a rep of stealing people's money if they violate TOS.
Bit of trivia for Gumroad. I discovered they no longer allow me to post image sets that contain nude images, But at least for a time they were still up there, although I think they took them down since last I looked.
I am on BentBox these days, payments from sales when I initiate them go direct to bank. BentBox is the 6th site I have sold my image sets on, the others going away for one reason or another over the years. I spent all of last year into this year uploading my sets more at first, but then once per day until all were uploaded. as far as the ones that I have taken are done and I plan to release anyway. So far so good.
Images4Sale (I4S) part of C4S was #4 site my image sets were on. I suspect the image sets were not getting enough to justify keeping them on the servers, although I was bringing in between $150 and $300 a year just from my site, after their cut. Multiple that by number of people selling sets and they should have been making good money off that.
And then of course there is the whole Title 18 2257 thing.
It started in the 1990's with the we must protect the chi***en bullshit, but then they discovered they could pressure credit card companies.
Although a few things go farther back to the 1970's when I first started watching adult stuff. there was a belief for several decades prior to that, in that they believed sexual intercourse and bondage together was not legal, but around the 1970's was when some folks actually researched the laws and could find nothing about that being true. So that was when you would start seeing videos with both sex and bondage together.
Side note on that though in in the silent and pre code era, some adult movies had that together, but kind of disappeared even from porn once the code took effect (or at least I can not find many examples after that point until the 1970's).
On PayPal,
Digital nudity and especially Porn bad
Physical item okay as long as there is NOT gratuitous nudity on the website.
I have to date never had a problem with PayPal other then the one time we transferred the business account to me personally from one of the partners, even though the address was my house in both cases. Had to send them more info than I really wanted to prove I was me.
Interestingly they do not generally have a problem if you sell a digital copy on a physical medium (such as USB drive, CD, DVD), or at least not a problem as long as you keep the images/videos on the web site "clean". (I always listed it as CD or USB key with data on the invoice). Been years since I needed to do this though.
And on a note, unless I am saving up for a purchase I plan on using PayPal for, I will mostly clear my PayPal once per week if it is over $500, I usually leave between $50 and $100 for small purchases. If it gets over $2500, I transfer at my earliest opportunity minus any potential funds I need. even in the middle of the week. While happening less, PayPal still has a rep of stealing people's money if they violate TOS.
Bit of trivia for Gumroad. I discovered they no longer allow me to post image sets that contain nude images, But at least for a time they were still up there, although I think they took them down since last I looked.
I am on BentBox these days, payments from sales when I initiate them go direct to bank. BentBox is the 6th site I have sold my image sets on, the others going away for one reason or another over the years. I spent all of last year into this year uploading my sets more at first, but then once per day until all were uploaded. as far as the ones that I have taken are done and I plan to release anyway. So far so good.
Images4Sale (I4S) part of C4S was #4 site my image sets were on. I suspect the image sets were not getting enough to justify keeping them on the servers, although I was bringing in between $150 and $300 a year just from my site, after their cut. Multiple that by number of people selling sets and they should have been making good money off that.
And then of course there is the whole Title 18 2257 thing.
