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> Conveniently ignored in all the stories about teenage whiz-kids who make money off internet businesses is that they are invariably committing federal felonies
by mintplant 14y ago
> Conveniently ignored in all the stories about teenage whiz-kids who make money off internet businesses is that they are invariably committing federal felonies.
Or, y'know, they've had their parents sign up for such things for them. That's what I did.
- superuser2 14y agoBut they still agreed to a terms of service which prohibits sharing account credentials with the intent to break that agreement. (There could be a service that doesn't, but "no account sharing" seems to be boilerplate in ToS documents).
- mintplant 14y agoOr they don't share account credentials. Many parents wouldn't let their children anywhere near something with their banking details in it.
- superuser2 14y agoThen your parents must have been technically competent enough to work with Paypal's API or the App Store. Which is pretty rare.
- s_baby 14y agoThat's silly, am I breaking the TOS if I pay a contractor to setup the API for me?
- superuser2 14y agoStripe's TOS appears to say nothing about sharing credentials, but PayPal explicitly disallows sharing passwords.
- mintplant 14y agoI haven't used a developer account on either PayPal or the App Store. However, it's not that difficult to shoulder-surf and copy down an API key.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoHow did you make the leap from "account credentials" to "banking details"?
- mintplant 14y agoPayment processors need some place to send the money to; therefore, often (though I suppose not always), such accounts will have banking details linked to them.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoNot at all. Many logins don't have cards associated with them. Even my iTunes account is solely powered by gift cards.
- mintplant 14y agoiTunes is not a payment processor for business transactions.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoRight! So we agree then.