Porn sting X-poses vendors

By TRACY CONNOR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Prepaid cards that unlock one of the raunchiest X-rated sites on the Internet are being peddled by bodegas and newsstands across the city - even to underage kids, the Daily News has learned.

The so-called PPP cards cost $5 to $50, and work similar to prepaid telephone cards.

Each one has a scratchoff number that buyers can use to cloak themselves in virtual anonymity when they log on to a Web site filled with hard-core pornography.

Since it's illegal to sell smut to minors, the cards are printed with an 18-and-over warning - but an investigation by The News revealed that some merchants are willing to sell them to youngsters. FULL STORY

What do you guys think of this as a payment method? I think it can be done a lot better but it makes us depend less on third party billing companies if it becomes popular. :groovy:

I quite like the concept behind this payment method myself, i know of at least one company who is activly promoting the use of pre-paid card, http://www.iloveprepaid.com and i have to say, im impressed with mechanisms behind this technology on the couple of sites i have had access to.

I do think this underage sale stuff will become important though and, im pretty sure the 'porn industry' will be the ones targeted in these 'swoops' and not the vendors themselves which, is ultimately where the problem lies, a bookstore cant sell porno movies to minors and, if they do, they get fined, the same should be true for vendors selling these types of pre-paid cards to minors.

Regards,

Lee