2003 issues
- Around may/july online tax will begin to take some profits (EU´s digital VAT will be first - US is probably going start 2004 or mid 2004)
- VISA US & MC US will make new rules... Verfied by VISA will be sweet and sour... no more chargebacks on some tracsactions - less recurrings.
- VISA & MC EU will get more adult business - they will be happy at first
- More payment options at paysites to avoid the "all egs in VISA´s basket" situation from ever happening again. ACH, SMS, local debit/credit cards, 900#, ecash, all to spread the risk. Some of the big processors will take these on making it available for most paysite owners with just a few clicks.
- Paysites will find even more ways to earn money from their members - FTC will start to take notice.
- Paysites will do their own chargeback scrubbing on top of what the processors are doing. Will hurt profits, but save merchant accounts.
- Hosted galleries will kill most tgp submiters business. TGP owners will accepted more ads on galleries, since they also get paid for those ads.
- Number of free movies posted on TGPs will skyrocket
- It will be possible to fight most of the hitbots, and proxybots, and they will start to loose ground at adult sites.
and alot of other issues...
Oh btw. Hi to everyone (this is my first post on Oprano) and Happy New Year
