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My calculation is that the $10,000 donation for AFF is like your average working man donating about $5 to the cause. I am suspecting that the airfare and hotel costs for Lars to attend Internext in Florida will total up more than that - and I am not considering the bar tab for all the booze he is going to buy to remain a "top notch guy".
Basically, AFF is bleeding the adult business dry, using toolbars, torrent sites, and other copyright violators and scammers to profit from stolen adult content and adult traffic. The recent string of announcements of small (for their company) donations to charity is an attempt to cover up the reality and move the discussion from how hard they are fucking the business over and onto how much of a "stand up top notch guy" Lars is.
I don't have anything against Lars personally, but the adult industry would be smart to start to understand exactly what AFF is doing and how it hurts everyone bottom line even if you specifically don't deal with AFF - and even if you don't produce your own content.
$20,000 in donations for a company making (large numbers of) millions of dollars is a drop in the bucket, PR moves and not much more.
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