Hi,

is there any way to buy a video in an umd store without letting the NSA know, who payed for it?

(If I transfer the money from my bank account, there is an obvious link, If I use ukash, I also have to use my account to buy that code, paysafecards sound like a good idea, but when I want to use them, I actually need to open an account with them - they even want my passport number!..........)

Thanks in advance,
Alex

It's really not that embarrassing to buy wam videos, is it?

as a seller you have to provide your address and everything so I wouldn't worry about buying - when us sellers get paid it's under a subtle transaction name not anything like 'WAM PORN' or anything
Paypal maybe?

Hi,
thanks for the replies. Itīs not embaressing at all. There are other reasons for me to not share data online.
Paypal would be a good idea, but is not accepted by the store.

Any other ideas?

Alex

Serious answer: There is no way to do anything at all on line, much less financial transactions, without GCHQ / The NSA / Other security services knowing about it, if they are interested to look. Just visiting the UMD will trip "adult interest" flags if anyone is bothering to watch, but unless you've actually done something to attract the attention of one or more security services, they are very unlikely to care or be watching you.

Only way to pay for things on the UMD stores is Epoch, as they do all of MM's billing. UMD can't take PayPal as using it for anything involving nudity is strictly verboten, the only producers who accept it are strictly fully-clothed only.

Using a pre-paid credit card, as opposed to a normal linked-to-your-bank-account one, can make things less traceable in terms of stuff showing up on normal card bills, but generally you'll still need to register the card to your real address, as otherwise most adult sites' internal anti-fraud measures will reject the card as "invalid address". Attempted fraud is rampant in adult marketplaces, so adult billing processors tend to be hyper-pedantic on the security checks.

I suppose in theory you could get in touch with a producer direct, agree a price, send them a cheque, and have them post a DVD or memory stick with the content you want on it, but that seems a lot of hassle for the producer and delay for you getting the content. Plus if it was UMD download store content, doing that would cut MM out of the transaction, so he'd not get his commission, which isn't really fair.

Unless you have hidden your IP address to make these post then it's already too late to be anonymous.

Our payments are about as private as you can get with a Credit Card. We collect as little info about you as possible, and don't share what we do get. Epoch doesn't give us your credit details either. Outside of that though, I can't guarantee you're out of the reach of Big Brother. :footinmouth:

http://umd.net/forums/the_mothership_now_accepting_c