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You're going to want to get a VTEC sticker for your XP machine.

WorldPay uses a similar patent where a user who has paid with his/her credit card and on any site associated with WorldPay they simply fill in their user name and password and the system automatically retrieves credit card number, address, etc. Since they are using this patent for years now, how can a patent holder who has registered it as patent at a later date, start charging them?

• Authorize.Net
  
• Verisign
  
• Intellipay
  
• WorldPay
  
• iTransact
  
• QuickCommerce
  
• or someone else?
  

Not necessarily - the internet is a global marketplace.

The OP has a small scale hosting service, which has a website. The website is available to anyone round the globe, 24/7 (not accounting for downtime). He doesn't mention what he uses for payment methods, but services such as Worldpay and even Paypal allow for funds transfer in many currencies.

What is your definition of global?

Tim

Phew, thank $deity that this news item didn't appear too much sooner. Just last weekend I ordered three records from Chris's site. Lucky me, I have all the chances of actually getting what I wanted. I quite expect his stock to drop to zero after you mentioned c64audio.com in here.

The shopping cart system c64audio.com runs, uses some nasty IE-specific javascript tricks. It won't display correctly (or virtually at all) on Mozilla or Opera. Being a linux user, this was somewhat problematic. When I mailed about this, Chris was very responsive and helpful. He told me to disable javascript entirely and go directly to this page in order to see what his shop has to offer. After a little education about PGP and link-hunting, I was also able to send him my credit-card details and my order encrypted. Yes, GPG is all fine and good (I use it), but it still lacks a solid, out-of-the-box integration to w32 mail clients. As I understand it, Chris is a computer-literate person but not a techie.

Incidentally, if anyone happens to know a nice free software shopping-cart system that runs on IIS and can access and use Worldpay's brokerage system, Chris would love to know about it. I tried to find one, but it seems very few shopping cart packages actually interface with Worldpay. It would be so good to get c64audio.com usable and accessible to all users. As the situation stands at the moment, that functionality bug may cost Chris quite a many customers. Given the selection of retro spirited records there is rather impressive, it's a shame.

two administrators: one system admin and one security admin, you better should outsource all credit card transactions to PayPal or WorldPay.

A little snooping on google led me to this page where, I believe, you can purchase the game.