The silver lining in all of this is that I can take this experience and pass that lesson along to any new models looking into signing agreements with webmasters: OWN YOUR NAME. In all its shapes, variations, and forms. Otherwise, someone else will end up owning you.

The hackers themselves will tell you that if you limit yourself (and anyone else on your server) to difficult passwords and better-secured billing scripts, they will have a difficult time indeed. They may even go broke because they can no longer charge their members for the chance to steal your bandwidth.

People can hack, steal, and then sell your passwords – why do that to yourself? That’s hundreds and thousands of potential dollars that you are losing.

I hope that’s some extra information that you can use to make a better, more informed decision when it comes to picking who to use as your payment processor.

So how do you bring in the money? How do you process passwords, credit cards, and all of the other good stuff – good for you financially, and good for the member in that they can finally see what’s beyond the flashy curtain and teaser clips.

Regardless of who you use to design your site, or if you decide to design it yourself, there are a few elements of an adult paysite that are pretty standard.

Like buying a house at an address, you need to do some interior decorating-with content. It’s not going to do any good to have a site with nothing there, right?

Attorney Lawrence G. Walters talks about what the new Department of Justice revisions to the 2257 regulations really mean to webmasters and site owners.

That being said, many of you are probably not aware of what exactly happens to cause Federal Agents to come knocking on your door in a not-so-Three’s-Company kind of way.

The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1994 stated that “Foreign producers who wish to peddle their products in the United States should be expected to abide by our laws no less than domestic producers.”