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.

Section 2257 is often contested, often debated, and constantly being reviewed and re-reviewed by adult industry lawyers and producers, is a hot topic at most adult industry conventions, and is most likely going to go through several more revisions, with more amendments added. The best that most of us can do is try to keep up.

I took a look at the actual legalese that is the Title 18 U.S.C Section 2257. Like most legalese, it is hard to read, is extremely cumbersome to understand, and makes you wonder if the courts come up with the confusing wording on purpose.