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Old 01-16-2011, 04:02 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy View Post
In the mainstream world, you are 100% correct.

However, that is a shit load of money for the porn world.

To put things into perspective (info found on google)....

Larry Flynt's net worth way back in 2001 during the glory days, was $400 million.

Hugh Hefner used to be worth a lot (600 million) but these days it's under $100 million.

Both of these guys built their empires over a lifetime. Nathan built his in 3 years.

What I do know is, if I had that kind of cash, responsibility, connections and know-how, I sure as hell would not be wasting my time on GFY trying to defend my position to people I didn't even know. I'd expect that from one of his lower grade uploader employees, but not from a man who could make such a power move within 3 short years. With that kind of cash it would be ALL about my family and my business. But to each his own. Maybe he is just lonely and emotionally dysfunctional. Then it would at least make a little sense.

Spending the weekends posting on GFY trying to explain himself over and over and over again to dick heads like us, is exactly what someone with his ability, connections and know-how should be doing. Yea, makes perfect sense. Not sure how I didn't see that before. Sorry Nathan, I believe you now.
Would of loved to listen to the part of the conversation which covered Pornhub.

Manwin "Well it's a Tube site like Youtube, but for porn. Users submit videos of their own and we are in the clear on 2257 because it's User Submitted.

Bankers. What if the actors are under 18?

Manwin. We watch for that.

Bankers. How do you know?

Manwin. We can tell.

Bankers. What if the submitter is submitting videos he's not allowed to.

Manwin. We ignore it until we get a DMCA.

Bankers. We've read the porn industry is in decline.

Manwin. Not if you give out a lot of free content.

Of course in that case you can have $150 million.


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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy View Post
Yeppers.

I just can't imagine having that kind of dough and checking in on GFY every weekend to try to make people believe something about me. Hell, I can't image having a fraction of that dough and still coming here.
Did you check some of the times he posted?
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