IP filtering by location

[Crazy Jose]

I am a Canadian, but lived most of my adult life in America ( 2 Passports, dual citizenship) and served many years in different capacities in Asia for the US government.

I have Asian wife, Asian children, and recently Asian grand children. I am telling you these things here so that, hopefully some of you will take this to heart, that there is a real and serious movement by way of some misguided feminist groups who are putting political pressure on female politicians to make laws and take legal actions against chat operations within their particular countries.

This is also happening in South America through their internet connections to similar radical feminist groups there. It seems to me as a studio operator that these groups are really out to make a name for themselves and perhaps secure government funding rather than serve the true needs and wants of the women they claim they are trying to help.

For many women, chatting is a safe and secure working enviorment which provides them a higher than average (for their area) income and the opportunity in some cases to meet a man that is the kind of guy they have dreamed about all their lives.

I cannot urge you strongly enough to make sure the sites that you choose to affiliate yourselves with will take the easy measures required to block viewers and therefore authorities from chatting with and gaining information from your employees in these type of places.

Asia is out (except Japan), South America is out, Eastern Europe is out...look at it like this; the few milliseconds that it will take for your filtering database to sort these guys out will be compensated by the savings in bandwith consuption and incedents of worthless beggar situations your girls will have to endure.

If a guy has no credit card or bank account why would you spend time talking to him. In places like Thailand, Philippines, India, China, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Brazil, Columbia, Africa and yes even Eastern European countries, it cost less to get a woman to spend all night in your hotel room than it costs for the average "Private Show" on the internet.

SO WHY NOT BLOCK THESE COUNTRIES...THEY DO NOT HAVE CREDIT CARDS AND WON'T BUY SHOWS.

[Hony]

I live in Asia --- so these 7 gold and platinum cards in my wallet with Visa, Amex and mastercard symbols must not be real. Great, I can throw all of them away now that you've told me nobody in Asia has a credit card -- I must have imagined these.

Hony

[Crazy Jose]

Hony, you are not a typical Asian woman, in fact it seems to me you are not a typical woman, and, when was the last time that you used one of your cards to buy a show from a girl? I live in Asia also and have a wallet full of credit cards, so that makes at least 2 of us, I stand corrected. But I never buys shows either...

Certainly it is true that the more technically advanced Asian countries like Singapore, Korea, Malaysia, etc have joined the rest of the world (carrying plastic) but many like Viet Nam, Cambodia, Philippines, etc are still way behind and lead the world in political and police corruption. Philippines is ranked #2 only second to Myanmar for corruption.

You perhaps may be in one of the Asian countries that isn't trying to make headlines from the realitivly few people that are making a living in the chat business.

My point, and I have newspaper articles to back it up, is that there are some Asian countries whose politicians and police use the chat business as a way to get media attention. (If you're interested I would be happy to email you some of these articles. They are actually quiet amuzing in the scope of the of outrageous lies they have printed unless you happen to be one of the guys that are currently jailed and have been in jail for many months.) Radical feminist groups have pressured officals to take action against chat operations in exchange for their support.

The risk of being jailed and fined is not worth the few dollars guys from these kind of countries might spend. Country specific filtering software is a simple way to block out countries that are dangerous to anyone making a living chatting.

Hony, my IP shows up on your admin version of this program so you know where I am posting from, I'm not in down town Vancouver. For chat sites to block out places like this is very easy and quick for them to do and would help girls and studios to hide them selves from people that want to use them as victims of their campaigns or at the very least extort big money from them.

[Hony]

Jose, I quite understand your main point -- sorry I was overreacting to the "asians don't have cc" things because it causes me personally lots of hassle when I do try to purchase stuff online (which I do quite often, though not shows I admit) and am told I can't because of where I live -- which is Hong Kong by the way.

Therefore I'm always quick to jump on this issue because unless people fight back I see a day coming one day when nobody outside of US/Europe will be able to do any business with anybody inside that zone. Because Asian=crook who only has a stolen cc detail because nobody can imagine that an Asian might actually have money.

Hony

[AWSP]

ok im sorry this is way off topic but, id have to disagree with the corruption statment

I live in the USA, we are nothing but corruption rofl .. If it was feasable i would move out of the US.

I mean what other Country in the world treats their criminals better then their homeless.. gives them cable TV, gives them library access, gives them internet access .. .... .. .. they should all be shot...
the damn criminals live better then i do, and i work for what i get. they do nothing ..........
granted they live in a jail, but that seems like a little inconveience to them . they still go about doing there criminal activities even from inside the jailhouse......

i will not say anything further rofl .. sorry i was way off topic lol .
I guess the point being is IT ALWAYS LOOKS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE TILL YOU GET HERE....

As for cradit cards from those areas, most sites do ban them, either right off the bat or once they have had some fraudulet activity from that area.

as for your point on blocking so that people in those areas cant find those chat hosts, well id say that falls to the chat hosts responsibility to know that she needs IP/country block on these certain areas..
Most cam sites provide ip blocking for the chat hosts. I say MOST do, not all .

[Crazy Jose]

Hony, wow I love Hong Kong. I know what you mean about buying on line, my CC's are all from banks in the US and every time I try to purchase online from Asia they always reject me. So I sign in through a proxy and that always used to work. Lately though I've gotten a few rejections with a notice that says "we don't allow the use of proxies when ordering" or something like that. Don't these guys know that it's a global economy and people travel?

The unfortunate thing is that this part of the world is big on credit card fraud, there are international rings that produce fake credit cards here that have some guys real information on them. They sell them for about $500.00 and of course they have a short life span. You have to use it to buy as much stuff as you can in about a month or so and then throw it away. Comes under the heading of a few bad apples ruining it for all the good people, but isn't that always the way things work.

[Hony]

[TheMole]

Google is in beta testing with a web accelrator. Basically you use their servers as a proxy. So, no matter where you are from, the ip will be 74. whatever.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=162800052&tid=5979 to read about it
and to block it
http://67.19.9.2/?article=23051

[born_to_oc]