Originally Posted by Profits of Doom

You have a better chance of the Middle East suddenly coming together and signing peace treaties. On one end you have a large number of affiliates that will do anything they can to scam program owners out of every last penny through every shady and outright illegal tactic available. On the other end you have program owners that have spammed and scammed and infuriated their customer base, that then bitch about those fed up customers resorting to torrent sites. All the while they are secretly cutting deals to accept torrent traffic, and then chastising their affiliates that do the same. Why should one end trust the other when they are both outright full of shit?

Every sector of this industry is the same way. When I was attending BACE meetings in Ohio for the strip club and adult bookstore industry I've never seen a bigger collection of egos, liars, and outright scum bags piled into one room. Everyone gave lip service about wanting to untie while looking at each other like they couldn't fucking stand to be breathing the same oxygen, and that was just among the maybe 20% of the adult businesses in the area that could be bothered to attend.

In the end it comes down to this...irregardless of what everyone would like to believe, the adult industry attracts a disproportionate amount of shady people with piss poor work ethics and even poorer business ethics. It's hard to untie the "get rich quick" mindset individuals in here and expect them to do anything to protect themselves if it actually involves doing any amount of work to achieve it. Unlike most in here I have been arrested and jailed more times than I can count to fight for my right to exist and operate, and I'm slowly taking the mindset to do what is best for myself. It's pointless to care when no one else does...