I alluded to this last week about whom Theo Sapoutzis and the brain trust over at AVN decided would be a good choice for keynote speaker at the Internext Show in New Orleans.
The person he chose is one Andrew Conru. Conru is best known as the founder of Adult Friend Finder. yes the same adult friend finder that advertised on every pirate site in existence.
But Conru didn’t stop there, porn was popular at the time so he had his company seed the site with porn stars, pretty much all of them. They seeded the site with pictures of Vicky Vette, who wasn’t a member but they pretended to be Vicky (and every other porn girl in porn at the time) and when guys would contact this fake Vicky Vette Adult friend Finder employees would tell them that to get a date with her they would have to upgrade to the 99 dollar membership, of course as soon as they did so they’d never hear from “Vicky” again.
Again Vicky is just ONE example. But Vicky is one who fought back you see. Vicky didn’t like her good name being used to scam people so she sued Conru and Adult Friend Finder and won. Chalk one up for the good guys.
The bad guys (Conru) saw the writing on the wall and divested himself of AFF, selling it to Marc bell at Penthouse, who took it public on NASDAQ only to get delisted rather quickly.
Now is this the type of douche bag that you think should be the keynote speaker? Personally I’d much rather hear Vicky Vette as keynote telling how she stood down the giant or how she has built a successful network of sites at a time when most porn girls sites are floundering or have simply failed.
I was going to attend Internext, not now, fuck you Theo you can slap us all across the face and lots of your sycophantic little cocksuckers will like it and beg for more, but not me.
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AVN The Pirates Best Friend http://t.co/Gzo1sv2jZj
how is he relevant in today’s world?
He isn’t He is likely speaking for free…..AVN are whores
This is just one of many reasons why I stopped getting booths and stopped giving money to the AVN back in 2008. The money that my company generates did not change 1 penny. Hopefully the other companies in our industry will realize they don’t need the AVN at all.
U mean Las Vegas?
Years ago I was surprised to discover that both Gianna Michaels and Cassandra Calogera lived in my small home town and were available for dates on AFF.
That right there spoke volumes about the douchebags at AFF.
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Without AFF the industry would have made billions off DVD sales. As it is the massive dating fraud AFF site used pirated clips to give free to voyuers. Conru should be in prison for lying to lonely dating site patrons who were made to believe the women on the site were real not ficticious.
Sandy, you are delusional. While AFF may have used some tricky tactics to entice lonely men, by citing the word “billions” u are feeding into the bullshit AVN has spewed for many years that this business dwarfed professional sports and the MPAA which is simply not true. This industry could never tabulate those kinds of numbers, Especially the numbers from private companies. I may not agree with AVN’s selection as a keynote speaker, however Conru has made more money than any idiot company owner in the Valley including Steve Hirsch
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Internext SUMMER is in New Orleans. But, I don’t know the dates?
@Mike –
You should still come down to NOLA to party anyway… Hahaha. 😉
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I would also rather hear Vicky Vette over this scumbag. Advertising on pirate sites is bad enough but at least I understand why he would do that. Lying about and impersonating multiple porn performers to get business is beyond scummy — it is likely illegal and I don’t understand how he got away with it. Fuck Andy Conru and people like him.
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now you make a compelling case Lacey
goddamit, fuck avn then :/
@lacey
I’m in NOLA January 28th to 30th we need to get together 🙂
Vicky Vette or Andrew Conru is exactly the choice porn is going to have to make to pave the way to its fiscal success going forward.
When I find porn folks being outed on ihub for promoting non-existent companies to make a quick buck, prior FSC presidents looking for donations to non-existent charities and more crap like this to make a quick buck it isn’t a surprise that the main promoters of these schemes would choose Conru.
The question is…will those who choose porn as a career continue to exemplify Conru for the quick buck or Vette as the ideal? As an investor looking for sound returns I’d choose Vette in a heartbeat. I see the potential for long term continued returns vs losing it all when someone like Conru decided I wasn’t high enough on the totem pole to warn me that the bust was coming.
As the FSC focuses on avoiding health (testing/treatment) expenses and data along with facilitating child porn by continuing to fight 2257 they aren’t protecting and facilitating porns future. They came after the Freeman decision and haven’t done anything to enlarge that ruling beyond CA. Ignoring the smaller career potn folks nationwide is gonna bite them in the ass potentially causing their demise.
It’s gonna take the career porn folks creating alternative entities for networking and promotion to hasten the demise of the old quick buck school of porn.