Whatever happened to the Adult Check website?

[harvard19x]

I remember signing up for the service in 1998-1999. And I used to use it a lot. However, it seems as if they disappeared from the face of the Earth. You would think that they would still be around bigger and better than ever.

However, it appeared that the owners knew something that we did not at the time. What was the real reason why they decided to close ship instead of selling their business to someone else? At least Danni Ashe sold her business to Penthouse instead of closing her site down. How I miss the early days of the Adult internet when all I was searching for were images of Veronica Brazil, which were very hard to find at the time. :crying:

 

[squallumz]

internet sucks now.

you know what's in? anal prolapses and girls with half shaved heads.


fire up your beta max, dude.

 

[robot_r0ck]

internet sucks now.

you know what's in? anal prolapses and girls with half shaved heads.


fire up your beta max, dude.

You sir, speak the truth!

 

[harvard19x]

I wished that the guys behind Adult Check had sold it to third party who could have utilize the site to its full potential. Too bad they closed it down as it did had a lot of things going for it. The early days of the interest were certainly better than it is currently.

 

[Roald]

As far as I can remember AdultCheck was just an age verification front for sites and not an actual network. Which worked great back in the day but these days it takes a quality memberarea to keep your customers happy.

 

[squallumz]

As far as I can remember AdultCheck was just an age verification front for sites and not an actual network. Which worked great back in the day but these days it takes a quality memberarea to keep your customers happy.

thats what i was thinking. they were a verification tool, not an actual content site.

 

[luis1972]

just to check...

 

[harvard19x]

just to check...

Maybe if they had sold the site to someone who could have maximize its potential, would it still be around? Even Danni decided to sell her website and Danni's Hotbox to Penthouse because they had the resources to keep it going. And she knew that if she keep it to herself, she might have lost traffic to other competing websites. That's a very good example of a business woman who got into it on the ground floor in 1994 and created one of the greatest adult sites for its time before selling it while it was still hot. She certainly walked away from that a very rich woman. And she didn't have to do hardcore porn either. That's a woman that is well respected.

 

[Roald]

Maybe if they had sold the site to someone who could have maximize its potential, would it still be around? Even Danni decided to sell her website and Danni's Hotbox to Penthouse because they had the resources to keep it going. And she knew that if she keep it to herself, she might have lost traffic to other competing website. That's a very good example of a business woman who got in on the ground floor in 2004-2006 and created one of the greatest adult sites for all time before selling it while it was still hot.

With all due respect to Danni but that site went to shit after it was sold and was merely bought for its users database by AdultFriendFinder

 

[harvard19x]

With all due respect to Danni but that site went to shit after it was sold and was merely bought for its users database by AdultFriendFinder

I agree. Her site is not the same when she was running the site. When some else takes charge of it, it becomes just another bland/impersonal website that doesn't have the founder's charisma.

 

[squallumz]

shit, i remember when suicide girls was awesome.

 

[John_8581]

Picka-picka sites anyone?

 

[squallumz]

Picka-picka sites anyone?

 

[John_8581]

Haha... no no. More like this...

http://www.pickapicka.com/pickablonde/

http://www.pickapicka.com/pickaboobie/

 

[harvard19x]

Adult Check was a cool site back in 1998. When I was a member, the sites I saw had a lot of recycled material. It reminded me of going into an old adult video store that had nothing but D-level magazines and VHS videos of movies that no one will remember after watching them.

 

[Steve-FreeOnes]

Just the 8 years on today's bump, standards are slipping!

 

[John_8581]

Lawsuits did the Adult Check website in. Precisely the Project 10 lawsuit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Check

Same thing happened to Lazygirls.info too. Adult photographers filed class action suits against LazyGirls.info in seven states. The LG.info site went down and became defunct. LazyGirls.info stripped the photographer's logo from off the pictures and put their "Lazy Girls" logo directly over their names. The thing that was learned there was that you cannot be doing that, stripping the logos from copyrighted content and putting your own name over it.

 

[FreeOnes_Adam]

Oh dear.

 

[tvstrip]

Lawsuits did the Adult Check website in. Precisely the Project 10 lawsuit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Check

That's an interesting case. I have to wonder if it was too broad though, because you could use the same logic to sue sites like paypal, or even the credit card companies themselves.

 

[John_8581]

That's an interesting case. I have to wonder if it was too broad though, because you could use the same logic to sue sites like paypal, or even the credit card companies themselves.

There's more to this. Project Ten filed approximately twenty-five lawsuits. One was against CCBill LLC. Yes the payment processor.The other was against to a webhosting service called Cavecreek Wholesale Internet Exchange or CWIE LLC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._CCBill,_LLC

Parts of the lawsuit were affirmed. Other parts were rejected. Others were remanded back to the lower court by the Ninth Circuit Court. This was dealing with the DMCA.