The Supreme Court on Dec. 3 refused to consider an appeal by an online publisher that claims credit-card companies are enabling the piracy of its pictures of nude models.

The case was brought by Perfect 10 Inc., which until recently published an adult magazine and also operates Perfect10.com. The company said in court papers that its business has been severely harmed by pirate Web sites, many of them overseas, which have used images of its nude models without authorization.