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Originally Posted by crockett
I would imagine AFF wouldn't want to get involved in a law suite like that. Considering pretty much every profile used for advertisement is fake yet presented as "real". One could say they are defrauding their customer base by using fake profiles.
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That is a very creative argument, and certainly viable.
If you could convince some of the customers who signed up with AFF that they were tricked, then a class action lawsuit could be conceived. But it is a question of whether or not the profiles are a "material misrepresentation". AFF could argue that even if those fake profiles did exist, AFF never represented to you that one of those ladies would have had sex with you (a notion that itself borders on illegal).
However, in order to collect your damages from AFF in a class action, you will need class representatives - people who paid AFF and were tricked, and then anyone who wants to collect their share of damages at the end will have to have their name publically disclosed. How many people are willing to admit that they used Adult Friend Finder?
But the concern here isn't AFF itself, as it provides significant revenues to many legitimate adult websites. It is that AFF is advertising on Tube Sites and that their revenue is allowing Tube Sites to continue in a viable manner.
And AFF agreeing not to advertise on Tube Sites wouldn't make such an action go away.