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07-27-12 11:55pm - 4530 days | #2 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 - 4533 days | #11 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 - 4534 days | #9 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
"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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
They don't own part of Wicked, they just run their website for them. 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 - 4538 days | #12 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 - 4539 days | #9 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 - 4556 days | #5 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | ||
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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.
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 - 4578 days | #11 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
It will still read data DVD discs. It just won't read DVD movie discs. | |
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06-08-12 08:55pm - 4579 days | #4 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 - 4584 days | #7 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
I like it. | |
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06-02-12 09:05pm - 4585 days | #454 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
Pornographic Love 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 - 4597 days | #6 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 - 4610 days | #10 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 - 4675 days | #35 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 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. http://www.gamelink.com/display_product.jhtml?id=348344 http://www.gamelink.com/display_product.jhtml?id=348392 | |
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02-29-12 08:18am - 4680 days | #16 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 - 4680 days | #11 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
I'm about to be crotchety, but short: 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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 - 4691 days | #9 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
I got the newsletter earlier Friday, so it's been sent out. | |
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02-16-12 04:57pm - 4693 days | #2 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
Have you sent out this week's newsletter yet? Because I don't think I've received it. | |
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02-15-12 07:10pm - 4693 days | #19 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 - 4709 days | #36 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 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 | |
hodayathink (0)
Active User Posts: 312 Registered: Mar 27, '09 Location: Illinois |
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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