PayPal to Fine Gambling, Porn Sites

scubacuda writes "Yahoo! reports that PayPal is taking an aggressive stance against gambling, adult, and non-prescription drug sites: anyone caught using PayPal for these purposes will be charged $500. Eric Jackson, a former PayPal executive and author of the new book 'The PayPal Wars,' calls the new policy 'draconian' and says it is likely a two-fold strategy to discourage certain behavior while heading off regulators."

But..

[Anonymous Coward]

how am I supposed to catch the monkey and win hentai dvd's made out of pressed viagra now, without resorting to credit cards?

Finally!

[maeka]

Heaven forbid a private company make money from something sinful like gambling or porn.

Now if we could just get our government out of the gambling business...

This is terrible news!

[The I Shing]

Uh-oh, I'd better take those PayPal logos off of my website, www.nakedwomengamblingfordrugs.com.

Profit!

[headqtrs]

1. Start PayPal 2 that allows all of this
2. ???
3. Profit!

Re:How productive.

[reezle]

I guess you didn't read the article.

It says Paypal to "Fine Gambling, Porn Sites"

So if you want the good stuff, you need to use paypal...

Re:you're on slashdot and

[rincebrain]

No, no. I don't pay for porn. I'm not stupid.

Next you'll be telling me I'm a Windows user. =P

Re:How productive.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Yahoo! reports that PayPal is taking an aggressive stance against gambling"

Good. Every time I see someone gambling, I try to tell them, "Dude, think how much cocaine you could have bought with that money."