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I noticed on a few commercial sites (I believe it was an Anheuser-Busch site) that asked for your name and city, state (and possibly email for unique identifier?). Then, it magically age verified you. It was pretty nifty.

I believe they must have used a product like ChoicePoint's Age Verification (http://www.choicepoint.com/business/financial/ageverif_fs.html). Basically a database of public records.

Hope that helps, Wayne Chang

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I suspect just verifying by name and address would be too easy to hack by the kids? Just enter their neighbour's address and name...

Personally I would consider credit card ownership as sufficient, as I think they are only handed out to adults? If a kid steals the credit card it is probably so spoiled already that some erotica won't do much further harm... But the law doesn't agree everywhere.

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