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CCBill is an Internet billing service. Established in 1998, the company provides third-party billing, or turn-key solutions, for e-Merchants requiring payments by way of credit card, debit card, or e-check, European Debit/Direct Pay, and telephone payment.
CCBill provides billing services for a variety of subscriptions and services, in particular for online pornography. CCBill began offering services to European companies in 2001 through their CCBill EU service.
Complaints
The consumer website Ripoff Report reports over 100 complaints pertaining to fraudulent billings and failure to process valid refunds.[1] The British technology news website The Register has also reported on alleged database breaches and insecurities.[2][3][4][5]
Perfect 10 lawsuit
In 2006, CCBill was sued in United States District Court in California by men's magazine Perfect 10 for "violat[ing] copyright, trademark, and state unfair competition, false advertising and right of publicity laws by providing services to websites that posted images stolen from Perfect 10’s magazine and website". CCBill won this lawsuit in support of existing DMCA regulations.[6]
References
- ^ CCBill complaints on 'Ripoff Report'. Retrieved on 2009-10-08
- ^ Greene, Thomas. "Hacking credit cards is preposterously easy", The Register, 2000-03-24. Retrieved on 2009-02-23
- ^ Greene, Thomas. "Porno paymaster CCBill hacked hard", The Register, 2001-12-28. Retrieved on 2009-02-23
- ^ Greene, Thomas. "CCBill knew of credit database breach in March", The Register, 2002-01-02. Retrieved on 2009-02-23
- ^ Leyden, John. "Adult payment firm denies customer records breach", The Register, 2006-03-10. Retrieved on 2009-02-23
- ^ "Perfect 10 v CCBill". Retrieved on 2009-02-23
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