Adult Check, Inc. was an American company that created and hosted one of the first and largest online age verification services.
[2] Cybernet Ventures, Inc., the parent company of Adult Check, was launched in mid 90's by Laith Alsarraf (a UCLA dropout who scrapped his struggling Web site design business) and Vardan Sarkisov.
[3] The company ran on an affiliate marketing model and paid out 50% commissions to adult site owners who referred them members.
[6] Perfect 10 charged that Adult Check and Cybernet could not seek safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C.
Perfect 10 proceeded to file lawsuits against even bigger companies, including Google, Amazon.com, Visa and MasterCard, but was unsuccessful.