Okay, so I’m not exactly in the mainstream porn world here. However, that doesn’t mean that I don’t like to keep an ear to the ground with what’s going on in areas like credit card processing, legal issues, and webcams.

So I’m perusing a forum thread on the topic of new regulations from CCBill regarding “leased” content and feeds on membership sites. Frustration abounds, since as you may not know, the credit card companies basically dictate what can and can’t be shown on websites down to the tiniest degree. The deal here is that there’s a new regulation from Visa saying that you can’t advertise content from other sites on your tour, ie. “Get free access to XYZ when you sign up!”, whether it’s a whole separate site or a plug-in feed of content.

I literally snorted at this comment:

“Why doesn’t Visa just produce all the porn for us so we can quit reacting to their steady stream of regulations?”

Seriously, man. Now I’m picturing what porn generated by banks and credit card companies would look like. Three minutes of fully clothed missionary position, perhaps. Thank god for European processors who may NOT BE RETURNING MY EMAILS ABOUT WHY I STILL CANNOT PROCESS CREDIT CARDS but at least don’t make you feel like “porn is the most regulated form of ‘free speech’ in the world” (quoted from the same thread as above).