Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising content

Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by gpm on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:36PM (#24346761)

For the Bella Thorne case in particular, it seems like it could be handled by onlyfans creating their own refund/fraud system.

Returning money received fraudulently seems reasonable and unlikely to be challenged by content creators (whom you are presumably clawing it back from). A short "escrow" period to enable this seems unlikely to be challenged by content creators.

The problematic case for chargebacks are probably "all the other ones" that aren't demonstrable fraud.

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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by nemothekid on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:01PM (#24347012)

A refund system for this type of content is tough and is already why a lot of card processors don’t like dealing with porn.

There will be a lot of people abusing this system to essentially pirate porn - and I’m also unsure if only fans has the type of workforce to review every case

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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by antihero on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:06AM (#24351355)

> A short "escrow" period to enable this seems unlikely to be challenged by content creators.

So people can pay for your content, look at it/screenshot it, and then refund it. I think content creators may have an issue with that, yeah.

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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by gpm on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:29AM (#24352990)

Escrow does not imply that they can refund it without some sort of process agreeing with them.

For instance if they can prove that you defrauded them... as in the Bella Thorne case...

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