Supreme Court Revisiting Online Porn Law

[sarettah]

Originally posted by Carrie@Oct 14 2003, 09:39 PM
Sare - sure, they say that in COPA, but COPA was written long before Visa stepped up and said "you can't use us for age verification". It's still in the law today, that credit cards can be used... but the credit card companies are saying no.
One hand hasn't caught up with the other and Mike's right, the judges definitely are not caught up with technology.

COPA is not what I was trying to point out.....

http://www.bitsntits.com/register.htm

I was trying to point out that if you can prove they have access to a verifiable credit card number (which means the number fits the formula for a major credit card and passes the lund ) then you can use the credit card for verification without ever passing it to a processor.....

Thats what I am trying on bits n tits... I construct a checkcode tells me if it was a valid visa/mastercard/diners/amex length and had the right starting number or group of numbers and gives me the lund... I complete the calc on the server end...

Therefore, they have provided a credit card NUMBER that is valid.... not necessarilly a valid card....

In COPAs final report they stated:

D. Age Verification Systems
8. Age Verification Systems based on credit cards
Use by a content source of a system to condition access to a web page (or pushed content) on the end user's ability to provide a credit card number. The number may or may not be verified as relating to a valid card (it may not be used for charging a fee) and may or may not be further analyzed to assure that the holder of the card is an adult

http://www.copacommission.org/report/ageve...ification.shtml

So, you do not have to have VISA or Mastercard cooperating.... Although they are missing a great market by not creating an "age verification transaction" for general use by the adult web....



Last edited by sarettah at Oct 14 2003, 09:52 PM