One would think that after embarrassing herself and her family last year by taking part in pornwikileaks and aligning herself with a bigot like Donny Long, Tara Akinlose would be content to wallow in her obscurity and get on with her fat little pig life.

She hasn't.  Like a turd that just won't [...]]]>  

One would think that after embarrassing herself and her family last year by taking part in pornwikileaks and aligning herself with a bigot like Donny Long, Tara Akinlose would be content to wallow in her obscurity and get on with her fat little pig life.

She hasn't.  Like a turd that just won't flush Tara has resurfaced.  She keeps emailing me, telling me that if I don't take down all defamatory statements about her she will notify local, state, and federal authorities. LOL  Heres her email

I am aware that you are in receipt of a letter from my attorney, Michael Triscaro, regarding the removal of defamatory comments about Tara   Akinlose from your site, MikeSouth.com.

Should the comments not be removed within 30 days, local Ohio authorities will be contacted. Please comply with the removal request. Furthermore, your associates Sean Tompkins of TheRealPornWikiLeaks.com and Cindi Loftus of Lukeisback.com need to
comply with the request to remove all defamatory comments about Tara Akinlose from their websites within the next 30 days.

Failure to comply will   result in their local state and federal authorities being contacted.

Gee I thought you did all that last year Tara? Nobody paid any attention to your dumb ass then, why would they now?  You should crawl back under the rock you crawled out from under before I become motivated to find out where it is and post it.

Or maybe she just gets some weird sexual thrill out of reading me write that she is a stain on the underwear of her family, maybe she is a freak like that...one thing for sure, it's the only sexual thrill that nasty cunt would be getting.

Word is she was homeless and living on the street.

Barbour,real name Linda Jean Smith, worked in the industry from 1978 to 1984, she was known for her puffy nipples and appeared in such classics [...]]]> Details are sketchy but word is that adult film legend Kandi Barbour has been found dead in San Francisco.

Word is she was homeless and living on the street.

Barbour,real name Linda Jean Smith, worked in the industry from 1978 to 1984, she was known for her puffy nipples and appeared in such classics as Neon Nights, Sexboat, The Pink Ladies, Champagne for Breakfast and Platinum Paradise.

She would have been 56 years old this year

For the record I spoke to someone at Manwin and Manwin flatly denies having any ownership at all in filesonic.

In the webmaster community [...]]]> These are the results of a thread that started on GFY, It didn't stay open very long, AVN shut it down REALLY quick....Its making a lot of people ask why.

For the record I spoke to someone at Manwin and Manwin flatly denies having any ownership at all in filesonic.

In the webmaster community this is just another "We don't have any ownership in any tube sites"  Turns out they owned 8 of the ten largest.  You be the judge.

bbm
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In the last few days there was a lot of fuss about all these file sharing sites shutting down which got me interested so I did a little digging and found out a few surprising details. Turns out that FileSonic is owned and operated by the same people who own Brazzers, how about that? This information seems to be kept a secret pretty good, but here and there stuff leaks. I've talked to a friend of mine who had some copyright issues with FileSonic and he managed to get the records unsealed during some legal proceedings and he was pretty shocked to find out who the real owners were. I guess that is why they've split for cover and effectively shut the whole thing down, cos let's face it, being in Canada and USA and all is not very good for you freedom options these days if you own a site like that. There are also a few more interesting facts. It seems like FileSonic were redirecting traffic, spreading it across a ton of domains to keep traffic rankings significantly lower than they really are, check out filesonic.fr, filesonic.jp and the rest! Combined traffic of FileSonic alone is probably bigger than that of Megaupload.

FileServe.com (owned by Choopa) shut down was motivated by exactly same reason in my opinion, being way too large and being in USA. Getting one of the biggest file sharing host is a pretty smart move for Choopa. All this makes me think that Megaupload was probably not the biggest or the baddest out there. These two combined probably were and are still pretty monstrous, not to mention the fact that each of them operated several quite large satellite services like WUpload for FileSonic and UploadStation and FileJungle for FileServe.

I also think that may be we are getting too worried and making a big mistake here getting all nasty towards older, managable hosts. If Brazzers owned one, it sure as hell was good for them and they do not delete their stuff from anywhere, even from other hosts. I also spoke with a few guys from several affiliate programs and they say they don't bother too much about their content being hosted there cos it's a free ad space. Lots of people come and buy memberships (provided of course the site is good enough to justify that).

Also I think that if a person doesn't want to buy or can't buy a membership they won't do it no matter if the content is there or not. Those guys also told me that getting stuff removed is pretty simple as these hosts are easy to talk to most of the time. So instead of fighting them may be we should consider working with them on some sort of beneficial partnership? You guys willing to entertain ideas on that?

All these folks who got kicked out of all the major dead or dying hosts are going to look elsewhere and new players will start popping up which in fact is a lot worse than dealing with those familiar hosts we have online now. New guys will have to be aggressive to grow fast. So attention should be paid.

Anyway there is a lot of food for thought here. May be they are not as bad as we think? Look at Brazzers and a few other big sponsors they do not care much about their content being shared and I think they either know smth we don't or have a vision.

What we should worry about are those damned tubes, like http://www.xvideos.com/

It's Alexa is 50 and you can find anything there from every sponsor, free, and that seems really dangerous to me.

So what do you think about all of that?

Proof I have comes from one of the niche sponsors. He'll see this thread and if he'll see fit to post it up or confirm he will. I can't betray the confidence as it was uncovered during legal squabbles with FileSonic.

You can however ask webzilla.com owner Alex, who helped put the deal together when Filesonic bought Sharing Matrix from dacash.com and renamed it.

Posted by Nautilus

Yes there were (and still are) rumors that FileSonic is owned by Brazzers, but most likely by former owners of Brazzers, not the current ones.

Barefootsies

As Nathan/Fabian admitted in his keynote, most of those same original dudes from Mansef still work for Manwin. They are not old and new, they are all the same guys with a new figure head.

Nautilus

AsianDivaGirls

slappin fish

I remember reading in a thread uploaders saying you can upload anything to filesonic including necro, rape...just don't upload Brazzers. makes sense now

signupdammit

If this is all true you would think it is a slam dunk racketeering and conspiracy case for the Department of Justice. Use the Filesonic conspiracy to devalue your competitors and cause illegal harm to them so that you can buy them for pennies on the dollar or otherwise let them go out of business.

dwb

This is a good read

PR 101 As Taught By Michael Weinstein

--Gene Ross

Here’s the whole Michael Weinstein-thing in [...]]]> When Gene Ross takes a notion, he can write and today he hit the nail square on the head, echoing what I have been saying, that porn needs a PR person like Michael Weinstein.

This is a good read

PR 101 As Taught By Michael Weinstein

--Gene Ross

Here’s the whole Michael Weinstein-thing in a nutshell. Weinstein’s the type of leader the adult industry wishes it had, but doesn’t.

Weinstein’s a chess master, and his game with the adult industry has been nothing but pure Kasparov.

Weinstein’s scheme is attack, attack, attack. Bitch slap, bitch slap, bitch slap. Knights, bishops, queens, rooks in the person of downtrodden former porn stars with sad sack stories, coming at you from all corners of the board.

When was the last time you saw a chess master pull an En passant? Weinstein will resort to lowbrow board tactics if needs be.

Back when the Free Speech Coalition first formed, it used to hold golf tournaments and testimonial dinners.

Rather than hunt down politicians relentlessly like the way Larry Flynt used to do and find skeletons in the closet to manipulate into wins in the courtroom, Free Speech became a contest to see who could kiss Ruben Sturman’s ass the fondest during the “closest to the hole” awards presentations at industry golf banquets.

The FSC used to have balls, except the word “Spalding” was generally stamped on them.

With an aggressive sales pitch about building a legal war chest to fight obscenity cases, The Free Speech Coalition raised money, alright. Except I bet you’d be hard pressed to find any of it nowadays. Like the fabled treasure of the Knights Templar, it simply doesn’t exist.

With the occasional personal check written by Russ Hampshire made out to the defendant, I don’t exactly remember Free Speech backing anyone’s legal play with a financial endowment. But that was what the FSC was supposed to do – with the money you so generously donated.

Where was a Michael Weinstein, rabble-rousing, pain-in-the-ass, gadfly-type standing up for the little guy when this industry needed one?

Proof of the strength of Weinstein’s game is how quickly he maneuvered the LA mayor into signing a condom mandate into law.

The only time Antonio Villaraigosa’s acted that fast was when one of his media girlfriends was on Line 2 and his ex wife was in the office.

A cynic might also suggest that Weinstein possesses compromising Polaroids of LA City Council with farm animals for them to have ramrodded this condom issue like a John Wayne cattle drive.

The beauty of Weinstein is that he’s got you backed immediately into the corner. Is a politician going to come out against fighting AIDs and socially transmitted diseases?

He might as well come out against Santa Claus and Jerry’s Kids. And the best this industry has shown so far in battling the Weinstein onslaught is a sniveling soundbyte about fleeing Atlanta with Sherman on the march.

If you haven’t noticed, mayors like Bob Huber of Simi Valley www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=52667 are on to that one and getting proactive real quick about the possibilities of porn checking out of Hotel LA and registering at their front desk.

Proactive and aggressive are concepts this industry never figured out. Instead of hiring PR savvy strategists to do the job against Weinstein, it’s got former high school council presidents playing grown up and talking to the press. In the PR game, that’s a forfeiture of the dice, a loss of down, a 15 year penalty and a called third strike.

Michael Whiteacre had the idea, and his attack ad on Weinstein www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9MOWF94_II was a gallant attempt at a message which, unfortunately, very few people saw.

[At least in terms of YouTube stats: something like 3200+ views.].

Now if it was a webcam girl striptease show, it would have been a whole other story with twenty times the audience.

But that’s the way to fight Weinstein. He’s going to bend the truth so you have to break it in half. He’s going to play Hearts and Flowers on the violin, so you’ve got to sing Hit the Road Jack with the Ray Charles singers.

While the adult industry was absorbed with porn parodies, partying in Vegas and winning meaningless awards, Michael Weinstein got this condom mandate signed, sealed and delivered. You think the timing of that was coincidental?

It’s called hardball, and Weinstein just showed you his heater.

Basically they were file storage units, for 10-15 dollars a month you could upload anything you wanted to your account and keep a copy of it there.  You [...]]]> Stories are going to be coming up that will be benefited by an understanding of how sites like Megaupload and Filesonic worked and what they changed.

Basically they were file storage units, for 10-15 dollars a month you could upload anything you wanted to your account and keep a copy of it there.  You could also download all you wanted.  This included hollywood movies, dvd rips, website rips, porn, whatever.  On the surface that doesn't seem so bad...BUT they also let you "share" these files with anyone you wanted, and pay you for doing so.

once you uploaded a file the system would create a link to that file, think of it as a pointer to the file you uploaded.  That pointer was unique to you so it provided a way for the filesharing site to track your downloads.  These sites typically paid $40.00 per 1000 downloads.  Smart uploaders would rip a dvd, split the rip into 3 or 4 parts that way a download of the dvd would equal 3 or 4 downloads thus increasing the money they made.

They would post these links along with boxcover photos to piracy sites like hornywhores or pornbb.  Most DVDs on a big piracy board would get 2000-3000 downloads.  As you can see posting 100 DVDs a month could be fairly lucrative.

Now if you understand the DMCA you know that a copyright holder can request that the material be removed and the fileshare site had to do so promptly.   But they werent removing the files.....only the file POINTERS, what this meant was that the original uploader could go in and in a few seconds generate a new pointer, update his posts and the files are back available for download in a matter of minutes.

Fileshare sites that specialized in porn even facilitated purchases made from sites like hotmovies and clips4sale, you could buy a movie and move it to the fileshare site without ever having downloaded it, the filesharing site would do it for you and auto post it.  This led to clips4sale and others blocking numerous IP addresses from being able to download.

Now when the Department of Justice shut down megaupload it was things like the affiliate program (paying uploaders for downloads) and deleting the links to the content instead of the content is largely what got them nailed.

Filesonic, Oron and other sites that were primarily porn took note and either cut off downloads by anyone other than the original uploader or terminated the affiliate programs, or both.  Needless to say if this holds, these guys are out of business, and so are the uploaders and piracy boards that made a living as affiliates.

Recent information has surfaced accusing Manwin of owning at least one of these large filesharing sites, Filesonic, more on that is coming, including a statement from Manwin denying any such ownership and why it is falling on deaf ears.

According to documents filed with the court asking the court to dismiss the Manwin/Digital Playground lawsuit They did:

“Thylmann again approached ICM, ostensibly interested in doing business with us,” Lawley stated in his declaration. “He also said that he was planning to start his own adult industry trade group, consisting of the two [...]]]>  

According to documents filed with the court asking the court to dismiss the Manwin/Digital Playground lawsuit They did:

“Thylmann again approached ICM, ostensibly interested in doing business with us,” Lawley stated in his declaration. “He also said that he was planning to start his own adult industry trade group, consisting of the two or three ‘powerhouses’ of the industry (including Manwin), using organizations such as the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America as models…. He said that such a group was necessary because the Free Speech Coalition (a trade group representing certain segments of the adult industry) was not in a position to provide any real value for its members.

“After making these statements, Thylmann then set forth a list of ‘nonnegotiable’ demands to be met by ICM in order for Manwin to consider conducting business with ICM,” the declaration continues. “Thylmann stated that he would ‘tie up ICM in litigation’ if ICM did not meet all of his demands.”

According to both Lawley and Dumas, by October the demands included:
•    Allocation of several thousand dot-xxx domain names to Manwin free of charge.
•    ICM’s commitment to circumvent its policy development body, the International Foundation for Online Responsibility, particularly with regard to the operation of tube sites within dot-xxx.
•    Across-the-board discounts on dot-xxx domain registrations.
•    Allocation of so-called “premium” domains, including Tube.xxx, to be operated by Manwin under a revenue-sharing agreement with ICM.
“Thylmann further stated that in order to explain Manwin’s change of heart regarding .XXX, ICM had to agree to concessions that would put a positive ‘spin’ on Manwin’s involvement, namely, that it would appear that Manwin accomplished some positive impact for the adult industry when news of the deal was announced,” Lawley’s declaration notes.

Now I am no fan of Stuart Lawley, he is a known liar and scum bag, but then Manwin isn't exactly known for being forthright either.  In a perfect world they will both kill each other but sadly that wont happen.

There's more coming on Manwin  LOTS more and at least one of them is a BOMB....stay tuned.

From the DOJ Press [...]]]> Last week in a move seen by most as a condolence fuck you to Hollywood for not passing SOPA the Us Department of Justice took down the worlds largest filesharing site, megaupload.  Megaupload wasn't that big in the porn circles but in terms of hollywood movies it was the biggest.

From the DOJ Press release:

The indictment alleges that the criminal enterprise is led by Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, 37, a resident of both Hong Kong and New Zealand. Dotcom founded Megaupload Limited and is the director and sole shareholder of Vestor Limited, which has been used to hold his ownership interests in the Mega-affiliated sites.

 

In addition, the following alleged members of the Mega conspiracy were charged in the indictment:

• Finn Batato, 38, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the chief marketing officer;
• Julius Bencko, 35, a citizen and resident of Slovakia, who is the graphic designer;
• Sven Echternach, 39, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the head of business development;
• Mathias Ortmann, 40, a citizen of Germany and resident of both Germany and Hong Kong, who is the chief technical officer, co-founder and director;
• Andrus Nomm, 32, a citizen of Estonia and resident of both Turkey and Estonia, who is a software programmer and head of the development software division;
• Bram van der Kolk, aka Bramos, 29, a Dutch citizen and resident of both the Netherlands and New Zealand, who oversees programming and the underlying network structure for the Mega conspiracy websites.

Dotcom, Batato, Ortmann and van der Kolk were arrested today in Auckland, New Zealand, by New Zealand authorities, who executed provisional arrest warrants requested by the United States. Bencko, Echternach and Nomm remain at large. Today, law enforcement also executed more than 20 search warrants in the United States and eight countries, seized approximately $50 million in assets and targeted sites where Megaupload has servers in Ashburn, Va., Washington, D.C., the Netherlands and Canada. In addition, the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., ordered the seizure of 18 domain names associated with the alleged Mega conspiracy.

The interesting thing about this is that since most of the large porn filesharing sites have shut their doors or limited download capabilities to only what YOU have uploaded.  Rapidshare, filesonic and others have thrown in the towel making even bigger targets out of the few that remain like wupload and oron, expect them to follow suit.

Finally the good guys catch a break, hopefully the tube sites are next....yup thats you Fabian/Manwin.

You didn't need to stay but a few minutes to know all the winners, I should have texted them to you before they were announced...I could have.  As everyone was being seated the winners were being shown on [...]]]> My guy at the AVN Awards called me.  He said dude "It was a cluster fuck"

You didn't need to stay but a few minutes to know all the winners, I should have texted them to you before they were announced...I could have.  As everyone was being seated the winners were being shown on the screens....

There were issues with the teleprompter all night and clips played with no audio and or were delyaed.

The biggest gaff of the night...they forgot to award Best Feature Film and Female Performer of the Year

By the time they figured it out the final dance number was over and half the audience had left.

According to my guy...."It was the worst AVN Show ever"

Just Damn......