Originally Posted by Robbie

We got an email from Local Billing telling us of the new deal with this. Has nothing to do with any gateway or 3rd party processor.

It's a new software that Visa/Mastercard are using to spider sites with. It looks for "questionable" text.

I had to take down a scene on Claudia-Marie because one of the sentences in the description said: "And then he forced her to orgasm"

In other words this software is looking for keywords. And not only is it looking for the obvious ones...it looks for dumb ones too. I could have written: "And then after fucking Claudia-Marie tried to open a pickle jar but it wouldn't open easily and she had to FORCE it open"

And guess what? That dumbass piece of software would have seen the word "Force" and flagged my site.

This is called the BRAM regulation. And here is part of the email we got:

Mandatory changes are being issued from our banks

Some of your sites may require some changes to the text (and in some cases, images) to ensure we are able to continue working on your international sales growth. Failure to comply will result in merchant accounts being shut down, and losing rebills associated with that account. Our objective is to assist you in a speedy resolution, so that we can keep your sites performing as usual.

Who? Why? How is this determined?

Banks and card associations are using a new web-crawling software, ?G2?, to scan the internet for ?non-compliant? material. This software was developed for Visa and Mastercard as a protective measure, by searching the Internet for content that is associated with their brands. They have recently begun a systematic scan of the Internet using G2 to find (and assist them in shutting down), websites that contain material they define to be non-compliant and/or harmful to their branding.

In general, things to avoid include words in the tour that imply:

Non-consensual sex (ex: drinking, drunk, beer, alcohol, forced, raped, humiliated, sleep, and sleeping)
Violence (ex: brutal, pain, and rape)