Anyone here feel best qualified to be point man with the FSC?

Bill · 2006-03-30, 06:36 PM

I'll have to hunt it down Chop, and I'm not even sure where to start - but my memory of it was that this one fairly well known adult lawyer type said he had invented a javascript tool that worked as a legally viable age verification, and that he had submitted it for a patent, thus I called it "patent pending".

The tool required that a visitor enter his birthdate into a field before entry was allowed. The logic was that the birthdate was part of the current legal method of establishing identity (name and date of birth), and therefore was an acceptable way to anonymously collect a unique agreement to be bound by the rules for entry.

If he was sucessful at getting a patent, that should mean no-one can use an age verification scheme that uses a bithdate identifier without paying him a fee.

So, I was playing with ideas that didn't rely on that patent's concept.

I'll look thru my bookmarks and see if I have it somewhere.

2006-03-30, 06:36 PM	#21
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	I'll have to hunt it down Chop, and I'm not even sure where to start - but my memory of it was that this one fairly well known adult lawyer type said he had invented a javascript tool that worked as a legally viable age verification, and that he had submitted it for a patent, thus I called it "patent pending". The tool required that a visitor enter his birthdate into a field before entry was allowed. The logic was that the birthdate was part of the current legal method of establishing identity (name and date of birth), and therefore was an acceptable way to anonymously collect a unique agreement to be bound by the rules for entry. If he was sucessful at getting a patent, that should mean no-one can use an age verification scheme that uses a bithdate identifier without paying him a fee. So, I was playing with ideas that didn't rely on that patent's concept. I'll look thru my bookmarks and see if I have it somewhere.