A few things:
I have no dealings with weblegal, or any other content broker, and I certainly am not a wizz at US law but a few things that are clear to me are that:
1 Weblegal is confronted with a possibly fake ID. Now knowing the reputation of that company I do believe that in case we are really dealing with a fake ID steps will be taken to remedy the situation. So I see no point in going on about that subject. It's like beating a dead horse. (That goes for competetive content brokers too
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2 newgrade handled this wrong. A matter like this should be resolved privately and not on boards. Specialy because at the time this thread was postd no request for a refund had been made, so there really was no issue. The issue arose as this thread progressed. To me the way he decided to handle this seems very unprofessional.
3 It seems to me that wether or not ID's have to be provided when buying content is debatable. I read some good arguments for supplying it, I alse read good reasons not to. Personally I think supplying it with personal info blacked out would be the best way to go, because I doubt it can be called invasion of privacy if the "private" details are blacked out. But like I said I'm no law wiz. so I could be wrong
All considered I think weblegal is being bashed way to harsh which is uncalled for and for the above reasons I am amazed that not more people said something about the way newgrade has behaved.
nuff said.