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Originally Posted by Mutt
let's take a more difficult example based on what this thread is about - solo girl sites. you shoot a 19 year old model for a solo site - the girl is not stupid, she is informed that she is being shot for the purpose of a solo girl site(yes there are shooters who hide that from girls and that is not fair), you pay her well and shoot enough content for a solo girl site. You launch the site, affiliates are promoting the site, and the site is doing very well - making you and the affiliates lots of money. 6 months later or in the case you present 2 years later you get a frantic email/phonecall from the model that she has is going through to become an EMT or police officer or something like that and she will lose her job if her website is discovered. The website is making you and affiliates over 6 figures a year - could even be 7 figures - what do you do then? Easy to remove 5 or 10 sets from a content store or from a members area of a multimodel site - of course I'd do that for a girl if her story was legit. But this case is much different - you talk about compromises - what compromises can you make in this situation? She's told you there really are no compromises - her site either comes down immediately so that nobody from the EMT department can see it or she is at risk of getting kicked out. Affiliates are going to be pissed off - the fallout is going to hurt your program's reputation - and the financial loss major. The compromises I can think of in this situation - GeoIP protecting the site from her hometown(we are doing this) is far from perfect. Another compromise could be 'In order to shut down your site without doing damage to my business I need to keep the site up for six more months' - this also doesn't help her much - they can find the site within those six months. There really is no compromise in this case - you either take a HUGE hit for this girl or you don't.
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I said it before and I will say it again, the end of the conversation might very well be, I'm sorry but the answer is going to have to be NO. However, using the figures above, you just narrowed the conversation down to just a handful of sites, one of which is mine.
Your average solo-girl site is not making anywhere near that kind of income, and as I said, I would look to see what options are available before I would simply say NO. Maybe we agree to remove the tour and redirect the incoming tour hits to another girl and/or site but keep the members area open till the rebills are gone. Maybe we agree to shut down the site as long as the model agrees to compensate the affiliates for lost revenue for a period of say, 4 months. If she has a rich daddy or boyfriend, that is certainly doable. I was watching MTV's sweet sixteen and rich daddys are spending $250,000 for their daughters sweet 16 party and MOST solo girl sites arent making anywhere near that. Maybe we shut down the site and give members access to other solo girl sites in the same program, thus keeping rebills alive while redirecting incoming hits to other sites with a kick in the payout to the affiliates (paid for by the model). There is a lot more to protecting your affiliates then simply telling the girl to fuck off when telling the girl to fuck off might actually put you, and your affiliates in harms way.
In other words, there very well might be options that satisfy all parties. But again, the final answer, after looking at the available options, MIGHT still be NO.
And, as for your question..would they do the same for me? It doesn't matter, its not their eyes I'm looking into when I look in the mirror and it's not their eyes that my kids see when they look into mine.