playing devil's advocate: may be tip4commit is not your problem, but rather your country's laws are if these allow to so easily mock anyone and risk of being convicted?
That doesn't make it OK for someone to run a dodgy "donations/tip/contribution" service, asking for money on my behalf. This could potentially cause problems for lots of people around the world (seems like UK has similar laws too).
Stupid foreign laws don't go away by ignoring them. Running an international service requires you to understand the legislations you operate in.
People cannot opt out of the tip4commit service, it automatically opts you in.
Like, I create an account for you without your knowledge and I send you to jail? Sounds like a useful app, but scary in the wrong hands.
Are you serious? I can't expect to avoid consequences for the crazy laws that get passed in other countries?
I won't stand in front of any judges of your backwards country, I have enough with my own.
also, people who downvoting here - make sure to read HN rules about what downvotes are for. They are not to downvote different ideas, but to remove useless posts.
Can you show me where it says that in the rules or guidelines or FAQ?
That takes time, and costs money.
exDM69 can avoid spending that time and money by asking you to stop collecting money for them.
And so now you have a choice: offer to give timy amounts of money to someone who will never accept it; or you could respect that person's wishes by not accepting donations for them. (And that's the honest thing to do for the people giving you the money! If Bob tells you he's never going to accept the money it's dishonest to keep accepting donations for Bob).
No, you would not be able to put me in jail. At worst, the penalty would be a fine. But that would not happen in practice.
What would happen is that I receive a letter from the local authorities, demanding me to explain why there are donations being asked for under my name. Responding might need me to get legal advice and perhaps contacting the hosting behind the service to find out who is asking for donations and why.
In other words, that would mean a lengthy paperwork process and perhaps some fees for legal advice. That would be a nuisance.
Does it really matter, it is a problem for the project owners. This third party claim to have an altruistic purpose yet they end up being a problem. And now you are suggesting to sovle the problem it is somehow more rational for the project owner to either 1) pack up and move to another countr or 2) start lobbying their local legislature to change laws to accomodate whatever this third party (tip4commit) thinks is a more rational approach.