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07-27-12  11:55pm - 4531 days #2
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Originally Posted by slutty:


I was just wondering if any PUs had tried one of the SSD/HDD hybrid drives. I know they have been around for a while, but it seems as though the newer batch actually has some pretty good performance improvements in boot/load time almost as good as SSD alone - but much much cheaper (at least from what I've read).

I think the recent PU poll about buying new technology a month ago jinxed me, as just after saying I don't plan on buying anything new, I dropped my stupid laptop.


SSDs have been getting really cheap recently (you can pick up some decent/good 128GB drives for $100 nowadays without looking too hard, and even about $80 or so if you do look hard), and at that point I'd suggest an SSD just as a boot drive and stick to mechanical drives for all your media storage.
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07-25-12  02:58pm - 4533 days #17
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Originally Posted by pat362:


^I'm sorry if my statement implied that tube sites don't make money because I completely agree with your statement about the method by which they make money. I'd even add that many paysites now make their money from the royalties and commission they get from tube sites.


That's not quite how it works, as far as I can tell. What can happen nowadays is that tube sites now occasionally refer people back to the pay site that the video actually came from, and sometimes the pay site gets subscribers that way. But the trick is that when that happens, the tube site gets a referral/commission for sending people to the pay site.
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07-24-12  08:38pm - 4534 days #11
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Originally Posted by pat362:


I don't know if Manwin is still as unethical as they were in the beginning. As they buy more and more comnpanies then tube sites become more their enemies than their friennds because the content on those sites actually belong to them so they are now stealing money from their own pocket.


Except that they aren't stealing money from their own pockets, because the tube sites actually make them money as well. Maybe not as much per "member/user" as the subscription sites, but not a small amount, and tube sites have more "members/users" than subscription sites. As a matter of fact, even after they bought Brazzers, they were still making more money off of their tube sites than they were from Brazzers memberships.
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07-23-12  10:23pm - 4535 days #9
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Originally Posted by pat362:


I know that many people in the industry are not thrilled with Manwin but I sometime wonder if it has less to do with their business practices and more to do with the fact that manwin did something they never thought could be done.



"Their business practices" included devaluing their competitor's businesses by releasing their content for free and pretending they had nothing to do with it. That's a pretty rightful thing to be pissed about.
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07-23-12  02:42pm - 4535 days #5
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At AVN this past year, the head of Manwin announced that he took out a multi-million dollar loan from Wall Street, and basically said he was looking to buy any and every company that was willing to sell. Which, in this down economy, is apparently quite a few companies.
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07-19-12  09:41pm - 4539 days #12
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Originally Posted by Micha:


hodayathink] rote:
I mean that up until about a month ago, their 720p and 1080p videos were in the flv format. Now, they're both mp4 downloads.


Actually I've been downloading bunches of 720p flash films today.
Most of the 1080 and 720 that I've seen are flash, though a few are mp4 and wmv, (and all videos that are smaller)

The problem with the flash vids, they crashed my puter twice today when I launched three of them. I was subsequently able to launch them, so the problem is intermittent. When it happens, a reboot is necessary which terminates all DLs that are running. The video selection seems good but if you like large still images, NA is not for you. I haven't seen any larger than 150k.
Navigation seems to be intentionally obtuse. Where the back button takes you is a crap shoot. I'll spend a month here and then bail.

Thanks hodaya for your replies


What do you mean by where the back button takes you is a crap shoot? I've never the browser's back button take me to anything besides the last page I looked at, and the site itself doesn't have a back button.
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07-18-12  10:28pm - 4540 days #9
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Originally Posted by Micha:


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they actually switched from those flash vids to MP4 files themselves about a month ago.


Not sure I follow that. Did you mean the switch was from mp4 to flash?


I mean that up until about a month ago, their 720p and 1080p videos were in the flv format. Now, they're both mp4 downloads.
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07-18-12  04:26pm - 4540 days #7
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Originally Posted by Micha:


I've seen in browser viewing of video flash files for years but this is the first time I've seen a downloadable flash video

I've downloaded one and it seems to play just fine, but before I build a new wing for my video library, I thought I'd ask the Video Gods, several of which who live here, What bad things do you have to say about collecting flash files? What good things?

I've noticed the few times that I've played flash vids that they seem to run cleanly and without artifacts or hic-cups, so this may be a good thing.

The disk space seems to be in line with other formats for 720p vids.

What are your thoughts?


As a long time subscriber to Naughty America, I can tell you that the Flash files are basically just MP4 files in a different "wrapper". As a matter of fact, not only could you just rename them to mp4 files and they will pretty much behave the same, they actually switched from those flash vids to MP4 files themselves about a month ago.
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07-02-12  06:10pm - 4556 days #9
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Originally Posted by Drooler:


See the third paragraph of what I'd said/you responded to. I said that the full content would have to be viewable. And I was talking about what sites should do, not what they've been doing.

After all, isn't that the point of this thread??


So I'll ask the question that I started my post with: How do you do that without allowing someone to be able to just take the content without paying for it at all?
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07-01-12  10:38pm - 4557 days #5
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Originally Posted by Drooler:


I might like it if sites had "per item" price structures along with monthly and longer-term membership options. The reason is that some sites have just a few things that I really want, whereas others have enough that a monthly (or longer) membership would be a better deal.

SweetAndNude is one that doesn't have that much that I like, though there are outstanding exceptions. MetArt is one that usually has stuff I like, so I've paid in for term plans with them.

But for "per item" to work, the full content would have to be viewable for me to decide to buy or not. ALS Scans has tried a per-item scheme, but you couldn't see all of what you were getting. That's been a while, so I don't know if it ever changed.

But it's not smart to ask people to buy something and they don't know what they're getting. It's like, you, reader, I've got a nice shirt here. Take my word for it. $30. Deal?


The problem with that becomes how do you offer it in a way where people can access the whole thing before they buy it without them being able to get the whole thing without paying for it? The best most sites are going to be willing to do is give you a couple minute preview if it's a video, or a few large images if it's photos (or maybe just a bunch of small thumbnails so that you can see the whole set, but not in the resolution you want).
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06-26-12  01:28pm - 4562 days #7
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Originally Posted by Reveen:


Big Ben actually refers to the bells inside the tower but over the years that name has commonly come to mean the tower itself.

It dosen't matter what official name they give it, it'll remain Big Ben to everyone except some over-officious twats. Its the same as the Willis tower in Chicago....the what? I hear you say? When I went on vacation to Chicago last year everyone still called it the Sears tower and probably always will.



As a Chicagoan, I can verify that statement. No one calls it the Willis Tower, and more than likely no one ever will.
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06-16-12  06:40pm - 4572 days #22
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Originally Posted by bibo:


The good old tech people argument. Sorry, but no, I don't buy that. The current generation was raised with the internet. They know how to deal with it and they know how to set up a torrent, because for them it's as easy as rewinding a tape with a pen for our generation.
Yes, they may search tube sites and hit play...and watch a blurry image of naked people doing strange things. But that's not what the industry is about. I'll say it again: if THIS is enough for a person, he will certainly not spend money to watch high quality stuff.
If you want to listen to a certain song, you (I assume) log on to youtube and enjoy the music. Low bitrate samples, tiny videos. Did youtube kill the music industry?



Again, I'm gonna ask you when the last time you actually pirated content was, because the quality loss is nowhere near as bad as you keep insinuating that it is. It is, 9 times out of 10, the same quality as you would get from a standard definition file download.



Originally Posted by bibo:


I agree, there is no quantiyfiable way to say whether or not tube sites are harmful for the industry. So it's impossible to evalualte the potential damage to the business, let alone identify tube sites as the main reason for it's decline. Considering the fact that many of those oh so evil tube sites are run and catered by HUGE websites, I find it hard to believe that this is the origin of the crisis.


One company own pretty much all the major tube sites. It's called Manwin. That company is now using the fact that their tube sites have devalued traditional porn companies to buy as many of them as possible.

Edit: And technically, the talent in the porn industry has taken the same corrective measures as the talent in the music industry has: they get some money from making scenes, yes, but they can make more of it from touring (escorting and feature dancing) and other things (like webcamming and merchandise like Fleshlights and other molds). Edited on Jun 17, 2012, 12:47am (hodayathink: Added info)
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06-16-12  02:29pm - 4572 days #18
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Originally Posted by Thomas20:



But my instinct is that it isn't, any more than 'home taping' in the 80s didn't kill music. It's all relative and it required no more technical skill to queue up a record player or double tape deck back then than it does to download a pirate vid does now. In both cases you end up with a poor copy of the original. In fact, copied tapes were probably a better replicant than sub standard grainy vids are today but they still didn't kill the music biz despite the skulls and crossbones on the paper sleeves that you slide the record into.


I don't know if you've pirated recently, but the fact that all of this is taking place on the internet (i.e. it's all digital) means you're ending up with an exact copy of the original video, not some duplicate of a duplicate that has quality degradation. Especially with newer material.
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06-16-12  11:00am - 4572 days #15
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Originally Posted by bibo:


@jberryl:
check http://www.raincoatreviews.com/community...r-escort-watch.2520/

Many Pornstars are escorting these days. Not hard to find, but you need some extra cash on your hand


@topic:
Somehow I don't believe all this "industry is dying" thing. Especially the idea that tube sites are responsible sounds a little bit too simple for my tastes.
Free porn was always available on the internet. Back in the days, people used EMule or Torrent sites. With many of those p2p/filesharing sites dissapearing or getting into legal problems (megaupload etc), we see more tube sites coming up.

The argument of production companies losing money due to illegal copies and sharing is quite popular. The music industry says it, the gaming industry says it and now, the adult industry says it too. What they fail to see is, that those people, who are satisfied with 640*480 blurry streaming/stuttering porn are most definitely NOT people, who would pay for a site anyways. The companies aren't losing any money, because they never actually *had* that money, not even in a theoretical case. Those people are leeching free stuff, that's it.

Now, before this drifts off into a piracy copy discussion: I'm working in the software business and I'm fully aware of the threats, dangers and effects of piracy. And I pay for each and every movie/picture that I download, simply because I appreciate quality content.

If it's really true that the industry is dying, there has to be another reason for the trend.


The problem isn't so much that piracy exists since, as you said, piracy been around for longer than the internet has. The problem is that it's become so much easier to pirate now that anyone can do it. Because we're tech people, we take for granted that it's not that easy to set up a torrent (not particularly hard, but not something you can have someone who only uses the computer to surf the internet set up by themselves). The "beauty" of tube sites (and the reason they are so dangerous) is because there's literally no technical knowledge needed to be able to use them, and on top of that there's no waiting period for a download. You just find the page, hit play, and that's it. Add to that the fact that the tubes are so popular that on many occasions, if you search for a scene, a result for the pirated/tube version of that scene will show up in the search results higher than the official place to get that scene, and it's not necessarily just about "pirates wouldn't pay anyway", which there's not really any quantifiable way to say whether it's true or not true.
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06-16-12  10:53am - 4572 days #14
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Originally Posted by Toadsith:


I will grant you that this article is rather shallow, as it is more of an overview than an in-depth expos� and is very focused on the heterosexual market of the porn industry. That said, I've never seen a male performer from the hetero side of the industry advertising their webcam account on their twitter feed - a practice that is very common among female performers.


I have, more than once, with American performers (Danny Wylde and Christian XXX come to mind off the top of my head). They don't make as much as the girls do, but there are some that do it.
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06-10-12  09:50am - 4578 days #15
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Originally Posted by Ed2009:


My memory of Windows through the years seems to be somewhat different.

Windows 2.4 - pointless
Windows 3.1 - poor
Windows 3.11 - better (networking a plus)
Windows 95 - Massive improvement - finally felt like an OS.
Windows 98se - Good
Windows XP - Unstable, had to reinstall every few months
Windows Vista - Much better
Windows 7 - Magic

I got to Vista about 15-18 months after it was released so I missed out those problems it had a launch. Currently I've got one PC on Vista, one on Windows 7. Both get very heavily used (12+ hours per day) Windows 7 simply does not crash, Vista is a big improvement on XP. I've got an old laptop still on XP (sp3) and it's a nightmare - crashes daily when used.


You know, there's a lot of people (and I'm occasionally one of them) that think XP is the best operating system that Microsoft has ever put out. Doesn't mean it never crashed (I had a friend once have XP crash like 3 minutes after a clean install, before he had a chance to install everything else), but the improvements from 2000 (which was so much better than ME it was ridiculous) made it the best out-of-box OS experience I've ever had, and my go-to operating system until after Windows 7 came out.
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06-09-12  10:08pm - 4579 days #11
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Originally Posted by jberryl69:



It's interesting, because it begs the question, how does one install software on a computer (other than downloading it) - what are the software manufactures going to do with all those plastic discs - hell, what am I going to do with all those plastic discs?


It will still read data DVD discs. It just won't read DVD movie discs.
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06-08-12  08:55pm - 4580 days #4
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Originally Posted by pat362:


I have Win and I'm thrilled with it so this won't be an issue for me. One thing is certain I hope they fix that problem before it's available to the market or Microsoft is going to get a lot of bad publicity. Win7 managed to make many people forget the clusterfuck that was Vista. If the Win8 versions doesn't allow the user to play dvd's then they can kiss the profits they hoped to make with Win8 goodbye.


It's not a bug or a problem. It's a decision that they've made on purpose. Their user data tells them that most people don't play DVDs on their computer anymore, so they decided they don't want to pay the licensing costs that you have to pay to be able to play DVDs for every version of Windows no matter if someone uses that functionality or not. I think the highest version will still have the ability, and for anyone else that wants it they're gonna have to pay for a "Media Center" add-on or find another program that plays DVDs (of which there are a ton).
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06-04-12  01:03pm - 4584 days #15
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Originally Posted by pat362:


^It would be nice if that worked but I think the advent of tube sites has made it so that most sites these days are not going to vary very far from what sells eventhough the stuff they could produce would sell twice as much.

I read something yesterday about Brazzer and I don't know if it's true or not but I thought it made sense. It is strongly rumored that Manwin/Brazzer owns many of the top tube sites on the net. These tube sites have the same effect on them as it does on most of the other internet and that it steals business from them to the point where Brazzer no longer makes money from the site itself but from the traffic they generate from the tube sites and their own sites as well.


It's not a rumor, it's a provable fact. They own a ton of them, and they make more money off of their tube sites that they do off subscriptions to Brazzers.
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06-04-12  09:16am - 4584 days #11
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Originally Posted by Khan:


The problem is, when you start allowing pictures ... be they screen-shots or samples ... you add another whole layer of problems. Not the least of which is compliance w/ Title 18 U.S.C. � 2257 and associated regulations.

So, while we'll keep all these ideas in mind for future upgrades to the system, I wouldn't look for them right away.

In the meantime, if you want samples we feature four sample galleries a week in the PU Newsletter.



Damn 2257, always ruining my fun.

So here's an idea for a new feature that I just got while writing a comment:

The ability to preview comments/reviews before we actually submit them. For example, to see how they lay out or to see if the sites we expect to turn into links actually do.
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06-03-12  10:44pm - 4585 days #7
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Originally Posted by pat362:


I don't think it's such a good idea because the way the review section is designed doesn't really allow for the placements of screencaps. The box is rather narrow so could anyone really place a screencap where it would do justice to the site being reviewed. Then there's the fact that images take a lot of space which can be better served with words and links to the sceencaps on the main site.


Make the image a thumbnail that has to be clicked to expand to the width of the full review box. That way it doesn't take up that much space unless you want it. As someone who talks a lot about the layout of a site in my reviews, it would be much easier to talk about certain parts of it if I had an image to show people what I mean.
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06-03-12  10:14am - 4585 days #4
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06-02-12  09:05pm - 4586 days #454
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Run by the same people as The Art of Blowjob, but featuring a different couple. Edited by Staff on Jun 04, 2012, 09:15am (Khan: fixed direct link)
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05-21-12  10:03pm - 4598 days #6
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^I think that if a cam girl gets anything above 50% of the profits then that's a decent amount. If we do a bit of math then half of 2.50$ is 1.25$ but that's per minute and also per customer so a girl with 20 customers online would make 250$ every 10 minutes so if she stays online for an hour then it comes to 1500$. That's a lot of money for anyone but it's especially high when you consider that these girls mostly only do solo masturbation for it.

Your average porn girl makes about 1000$ for a standard b/g scene and she will have to spend many hours on site or in a studio doing it to earn what a solo masturbation cam girl makes. I guess that explains why so many porn girls are going the cam route. I'm glad for them but if porn goes all cam to morrow then they will definetely have one less customer spending money on their work because I will never watch a cam show.


You're kinda ignoring the meaning of a "private" chat. It means, almost by definition, that the chat is one on one between her and the one person that paid for the private. So she can't have 20 people on private at once. So she basically makes $80 an hour for privates, plus whatever percentage of the tips she gets from the public shows/parts of the show.
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05-10-12  07:28pm - 4609 days #10
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Originally Posted by pat362:


^So are you telling me that companies pay facebook to put advertising on their site?


Companies pay Facebook to have their advertisements run on Facebook. Also, when people play games on Facebook and spend money on those games (like Farmville, which some of you may have heard of), Facebook gets a percentage of that money.
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05-09-12  06:43pm - 4610 days #4
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Originally Posted by pat362:


^I'm with you on the whole social media thing. I guess it must be an age thing since it's very popular.

Maybe someone with a lot more knowledge and brains than me can explain why Facebook would be worth billions when what they offer is free?

I know that twitter loses money hands and fist and has done so since they went online. What I don't know is why they are still in business.



Simple answer: Because you can directly advertise to millions of people based on demographics very, very easily (and relatively cheaply).
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05-08-12  07:53pm - 4611 days #10
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^I don't think Max Hardcore or Rob Black need to move to another Country if they want to release their old titles. They simply need to stick to the internet and they should be fine. Except for the most recent case against John Stagliano and Evil Angel then all previous cases involved movies that were sold in specific States. The kind of content Kink currently produces would definetely get them noticed by the justice department but you don't hear anything because they have wisely stuck to an internet only plan.


The case against Stagliano was also about shipped DVDs and not internet content, as far as I know.
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05-04-12  03:20pm - 4615 days #2
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Location: Illinois 		You're slightly missing the point, I think. The point isn't necessarily to share your porn interests with the rest of the world (the ability is there, if that's what you want to do). It's more along the lines of looking at what other people are doing. Social media in general isn't so much about sharing yourself (if that's all you wanted to do, you'd create a blog and be done with it), it's about forming a community with other people and sharing things among that community (like, you know, what we do on this forum). As far as sharing my porn habits, while I wouldn't necessarily use a porn Pinterest to share my porn habits, I might take a looked at their most pinned list to try to find some new porn to enjoy, or maybe even find someone with tastes similar to mine and see if they've pinned something that maybe I hadn't seen before.
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05-03-12  09:58am - 4616 days #11
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Originally Posted by BadMrFrosty:


The Transformer is a laptop with a detachable screen that is usable as a tablet, neat idea. Personally I don't see the need for a tablet, between my laptop and my phone I have all bases covered.


Not quite. The keyboard attachment for the Transformer is sold separately for around $100-200, at it's base price it is just a tablet.
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04-22-12  11:41am - 4627 days #5
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Originally Posted by lk2fireone:


By the way, why do Canadians sometimes use the ^ thingy to start a written sentence?


In the case of that post, I think it's supposed to be an arrow, meaning that it refers to the post written directly above his post. More arrows means further up the post chain. Most people do it so they don't have to quote the last post and take up space.
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03-27-12  03:57pm - 4653 days #10
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Originally Posted by Ed2009:


It sounds like they are in the right in their application of the rules, but that doesn't mean the rules are morally sound.

I thought beauty contests had almost ceased to be. Been years since I've heard of any - they certainly don't televise them anymore. I'm with you Rearadmiral, I think they're creepy too.

ps What on Earth is "The Donald"?


First off: The Donald is Donald Trump.

Secondly: They may not air them in the UK, but they certainly do in the US. They're on cable channels now instead of over-the-air channels like ABC or CBS, but they're still there.

As for this, to even get to that point she would have had to be in a regional competition and win that. And the regional competition would have (or should have) had the same rules as the national one. She should have been told about this rule when she first applied, and it shouldn't have gotten to the point where she was featured on the website before she was told she couldn't participate.
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03-16-12  03:38am - 4664 days #12
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Originally Posted by TheSquirrel:


Thanks Simon, yours sounds like a good system. I have never had this happen to me before, but maybe it was a genuine attack on my login, rather than pique from the newtork.


Also, what happens a lot is that when any site that has a membership signup is hacked (porn or otherwise), one of the first things those hackers will do is take those login names and passwords and try to use them on other sites to see if they work. So another thing that is possible is that some site that you have signed up to before got hacked (for example, DigitalPlayground.com was hacked a week or two ago), someone did a Google search on your username and found out you had just joined that site by the comment you left here, and used (or sold) that username/password combo.
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03-04-12  09:42pm - 4676 days #35
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Originally Posted by Micha:


Though it doesn't offend me, I am not a fan of anal.
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Though they doesn't offend me, I am not a fan of tatoos.

However..........I find the actress Adrylynn, verrrrrry intriguing

She has a strategically placed ring of text, Some sort or Druid runes perhaps, the meaning of which I've forgotten. It had to hurt.


That ring of text is in English, it's just hard to read because of where it is (and how small it is).
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03-02-12  05:29pm - 4678 days #18
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Originally Posted by Wittyguy:


I think Ed and Hod do make valid points. It's easy to not care, most of the the time I don't. I rarely click on ads but have done so occasionally and most of surfing is innocuous and not of much help to advertisers since I'm not a very loyal customer to anyone. And, yes, we are already a good ways down the proverbial road to hell in terms of lost privacy.

What gives me pause though is that all this info is being collected without any overarching rules other than "cash is king", meaning you don't know who or what is happening with your info. More importantly, as computer alogorithms and processors get better this info can lead to a very complete picture of who you are. Maybe not today but that future is very near. Frankly, without knowing who might get access to "me" and how that info will be used I am concerned.

I'm not trying to make a purely ideological stand. I know that we are all going to be more public as time goes by, there's no way around that unless you suddenly go full on Amish with your lifestyle. Nor do I trust that government regulation will solve much (lawyers and lobbyists get paid to take care of that). I guess my point is why make it easy for them when you don't know what your getting in return. Yeah, I get access to the web but does that mean I have to surrender all my on-line activity information to some corporate behemouth? I want some something more than what I'm currently getting before I'll give it all up for capitalism.


There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Or more to the point, if you're not paying for a service, and they aren't specifically trying to sell you something, then you're not really the consumer. You're what they're selling. People having been saying this about Facebook for the longest time (ever since they introduced their Advertising Program), but Google's been in the online advertising business for much longer than Facebook has, and for a long time it was their primary source of revenue (and it might still be).

What do you get in exchange for all the information you give them? A very, very good free e-mail program (Gmail). The ability to share and store your personal videos (YouTube) and Pictures (Picasa) and Documents (Google Docs). And any of the other sites and services that Google provides. Deciding that your information isn't worth that is a perfectly valid decision. But it's not like this just became the case because of their changes to their privacy policy. This has always been the case, and I guess it just took this change for more people to realize that. I signed up with that realization, so all this hubbub doesn't bother me.
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03-01-12  05:30pm - 4679 days #9
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Location: Illinois 		I've said this over and over again to anyone that will listen: I don't care.

I know exactly what they're tracking, and I don't care that they have it. I don't care if they know what I watch on YouTube. I don't care if they know what websites I've been to. I don't really care if they know the contents of my e-mails. And not in a "I'm not doing anything wrong or illegal, so I have nothing to worry about" kind of way. I've used Google's Web History to find sites that I visited through Google searches but forgot to bookmark and needed to return to. I've used my YouTube history to find videos friends had shared with me so that I could share them with other people. I've actually clicked on the ads featured next to my e-mail before, and found them useful. All these things people are "worried" about them doing, they've been doing for years (the actual change is that instead of these different pieces of information being segmented parts of the same Google account, they are all now kept together). And Google doesn't "give" the information to any advertiser. As someone who is actually also signed up for AdSense (I was running it on a blog that I wrote), advertisers submit the ads (and possibly the target demographic that they'd like to see it), websites sign up saying that they're willing to display those ads, and Google decides what ads will run on what site without telling the advertiser or the webmaster much of anything. So the advertisers never see your personal information unless you give it to them personally after viewing and clicking on the ad.

And if I were going to worry about hackers, I'd unplug my computer from the internet. Short of that, there's pretty much nothing as a user that you can do to stop a determined hacker. Slow down, yes, but stop, no.
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02-29-12  04:40pm - 4680 days #9
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Location: Illinois 		A couple years ago there were actually two different porn takes on Alice in Wonderland released. One starred Sasha Grey as Alice, the other Sunny Lane.

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02-29-12  08:18am - 4680 days #16
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Originally Posted by Ed2009:


If forums never rediscussed anything which they have already discussed in the past, then there wouldn't be much to say!

Things change, opinions change and people change (to clarify: new people join the forum all the time).


But it's the same people creating the threads, and the same people commenting on them. There for the most part is no opinion changing, it's the same people saying the same thing over and over again. And creating new threads to do it in, instead of doing it in the same thread that they did it in last time. I'd be less "annoyed" if it were new people creating these threads, or if all the discussions were happening in the same one.

P.S. - Not really annoyed, per se, I mainly kinda laugh at the very clear age divide, and realize that most of the people that post here are much older than I am.
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02-28-12  09:56pm - 4681 days #11
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How many times is someone going to create this same thread? I get it, I get it, you don't like tattoos, you don't understand tattoos, you think they're stupid. But do we really need like 10 different threads to say that same thing over and over again?

I'm done. Thank you for you patience.

P.S. - I don't have any tattoos or piercings. Don't plan on getting any either.
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02-25-12  04:09pm - 4684 days #12
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Location: Illinois 		I wouldn't feel bad about it, because your votes for other girls are likely cancelled out by the people who give ones and twos to anyone below a C cup. You like what you like, and there's no need to apologize for it. Edited on Feb 25, 2012, 07:13pm
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02-24-12  10:43am - 4685 days #42
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Originally Posted by Doctor Blues:


The courts disagree with the statement that piracy = stealing, at least courts in the U.S. have ruled it is not stealing. It IS morally reprehensible, but what you said is like saying armed robbery is like shoplifting.

Please do some current research (I have done about 12 hours worth in the past two weeks).


It's not stealing, it's copyright infringement. You don't know how many times I've heard people bring up that argument. Here's the thing: copyright infringement is still illegal.
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02-18-12  12:16am - 4692 days #9
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Originally Posted by RagingBuddhist:


Just re-checked to see if I'd checked the right box... yep.
Whitelisted pornusers... yep.
Checked my spam box carefully... yep.
Newsletter... nope.

Am I jumping the gun here? Still a few hours left to Friday, at least here on the east coast...


I got the newsletter earlier Friday, so it's been sent out.
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02-16-12  04:57pm - 4693 days #2
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Originally Posted by BubbaGump:


I was reading Denner's post about model names and didn't want to hijack the thread so thought I would discuss the issue here.

I was wondering what your vote would be for the most overused or obnoxious stage names chosen by models in the industry?

Back in the 80's and 90's there were a lot of Ambers,Bunnies, Porsches, Lynn's, and Stacys. Sometime in the 80's, models stopped using common street names and tried to get real creative. Like today, however, it just got repetitive.

I personally dislike the following name choices and cringe at any name that ryhmes( e.g. Alexis Texas) : Alexis, Nikki, Candi, Jasymn, Rio,or Jayden. I also wish models would stop using a lot of X's in the last names like Staxx or what have you.

I wish the industry would drop the dippy Tracy Trollop conventions and go back to more common fare when choosing names. IMO, I would find a name like Barbara Smith or Jane Williams to be more interesting and attractive than the overused cliches chosen today.

Just my two cents. It would be interesting to hear your opinions.


Common names are a bad idea for porn girls for one specific reason: For a girl (especially the ones in the US), your name is your branding, and you want to own your brand. If someone types your name into Google, you want the first 10 links to actually be about you. You want to be able to buy the domain "yourname".com in case you ever decide to make your own website. That's why you almost never see a name like "Barbara Smith" anymore. They don't have to be deliberately "dippy" or "porny", but if you're looking to make a real career out of it, it should definitely be original and not common.
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02-16-12  04:51pm - 4693 days #6
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02-15-12  07:10pm - 4694 days #19
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Originally Posted by atrapat:


IMHO, I sincerley doubt a company that has a well-known network of adult sites comparable to Brazzers would send spyware or phishing emails to former members.


They wouldn't directly, no. What they would do is give your e-mail address to, for instance, the cam site that they're affiliated with. And that cam site certainly would sell your e-mail information to whomever wanted to buy it.
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01-30-12  08:06pm - 4710 days #36
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Originally Posted by pat362:


I'm not so sure that Netflix futur is all that bright. Their recent problems are only a small part of a bigger problem. Doing an online dvd rental business was a good idea. Their prices were very good and the cost versus profit was easy to calculate but once they started to branch out into streaming movies and TV shows then that's when things started to sour. Streaming means you have to buy the rights to those movies so that's less profit in your pocket. You need to keep adding more movies and TV shows so again less profit. There's also the question of technology. You need to add more powerfull servers to satisfy your increasing number of customers so that's also eating your profits. The fact that so many of their customers complained about the price changes is a perfect example.


Conversely, the US raising the price of a stamp 1 cent is going to cost Netflix around 5 million dollars this year. And there's a chance that they may lose their special mail-sorting privileges, which will cost them even more than that. There are good reasons why they're specifically trying to get out of the DVD-by-Mail business.
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01-25-12  10:31am - 4715 days #36
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Originally Posted by pat362:


^No it's not her. As far as I know Adrenalynn never got a contract offer from DP or any other studio. The girl I'm thinking of also had a lot less tattoos than Adrenalynn.
I'll see if I can find her name but her choice killed her porn career right away because she had only shot a couple of videos prior to the contract and disapeared after the debacle.




http://www.adultfilmdatabase.com/article...issance-woman-62.cfm

Adrenalynn was a DP contract girl, it's just that she went under Adrianna Lynn at the time of her contract. One of the things about DP is that they trademark your name so that they own it and not you, so unless your leaving is mutually friendly (or you had your name trademarked before you ever signed with them), you don't get to take your name with you.
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01-24-12  06:34pm - 4716 days #8
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Originally Posted by jberryl69:


This just makes curious. If you stopped this illegal sharing, would you receive any more income and if so, how much could your realistically expect to realize?

I ask this Ed because it makes me wonder if people would just let the porn go vs having to pay for it?

Maybe you'll get firm answers in the future, though I would think these servers would just move to a country where these laws would not reach.


The answer basically boils down to answering these two questions:

How many people, if they couldn't get it for free, would actually pay for it?

and

How many people actually paid for it because they first saw it for free?

As much as many people out there might disagree, the answer isn't zero to either of those questions the vast majority of the time. But the truth is that no one knows what the actual balance of those numbers are.
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01-24-12  06:07pm - 4716 days #33
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Originally Posted by pat362:


^I can't speak from experience because I have no piercings but although the hole may disapear. I have to think that there will always be a hole because the body healed itself aroud it. It's just one that is not visible because the tissue around it hides the hole. The new kind of piercing where you insert an always increasingly large stud in the hole then that hole will never disapear.


Like I said it's my theory and I'm pretty alone since I haven't seen anyone else with a similar theory. Now in my defense. Janine may be the only performer to have come forward but I know that al least one Digital Playground performer who lost her contract because she was told not to get any other tattoos and went ahead and got another one
anyway. she already had a certain amount of tattoos at the time of her contract. Now there might be another reason why she pissed away a DP contract but I certainlky can't come up with another other than the tatto was a sure way for her not to do porn.


Are you talking about Adrenalynn or someone else? Because if that's who you're talking about, she has been working at a tattoo parlor for the past couple years. So her interest in tattoos was more than just a "get out of porn" card.

And about "the body healing itself around it", it doesn't for a lot of piercings. When the body "heals itself around it", it's not that skin and whatnot form over the hole. It's that the body heals the hole itself and regenerates the tissue. The hole ceases to exist.

Edit: Just talked to someone I know that has piercings. The holes actually heal themselves from the inside out, not the outside in. Edited on Jan 24, 2012, 06:23pm
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01-23-12  06:27pm - 4717 days #5
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Location: Illinois 		MegaUpload got busted for more than sharing illegal content. First was the fact that they straight up admitted that they could drastically curb the illegal content on their site pretty easily, and they weren't going to do it because they knew how much it would harm their business. Second, the federal indictment also has other charges (the racketeering and money laundering listed in the linked article).
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01-23-12  06:22pm - 4717 days #31
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Originally Posted by pat362:


They can remove the stud in the piercing but I believe that the holes only appear to disapear with time. I don't think it's really gone anymore than a scar who fades with time is really gone. I also believe that some piercings like the tongue require that you remove a chunk out of the tongue in the size of the stud rather than simply piercing it with a needle. Then there are the new piercings where the owner adds a stud of ever increasing size so that the hole keeps getting bigger. You can do whatever you like but that hole is never going to disapear or shrink. No what you'll have are nice flaps of skin for the rest of your life.


I've known more than one person with a tongue piercing, and unless you get some sort of huge one, they heal over and close just like any other piercing. And the "huge slab of skin" could easily just be cut off, and while it might look a little weird, but only if you pay attention.

Oh, and that "porn stars get tattoos to get themselves out of the business" is just ridiculous. Yes, Janine said/did it, but she's pretty much the only girl I've ever heard say that. Ever. Some girls actually wait until they get out to get tattoos because they know it will hurt their profitability if they do get too many of them, but almost no one does it to specifically keep themselves out of the business. Truthfully, porn girls get tattoos for the same reasons that any girls get tattoos. There's nothing particularly special about them in that regard. There's really not much to it than that.
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