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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
It's too bad that this industry is so cutthroat that it can rarely organize to act in its own best interest in dealing with issues affecting the industry as a whole (content theft/piracy, cross-sales, card-banging, talent testing, etc).
As a result, the industry that couldn't get organized is going to now be shaken down for as much as hundreds of millions per year, and that's just for domain registration.
Imagine if the industry invested only a tenth of what they will now have to pay annually into defeating .xxx instead...
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ADG its pretty obvious that back room deals and palm greasing was in the mix during this beasts creation. Still possibility of it all coming to light soon.
I do not think for a minute it was lack of action on the industries part, we have to stop blamming ourselves for this. It was money that pushed the scales, people were paid off. GAC was completely ignored and so was the results of the community efforts to end this.
In time it will be clear.
Fact is the vast majority of the industry opposed this things creation. ICANN operated in it's own self interest for profit and that in itself is against the rules.
By the time all the above is evident there is a good chance .XXX will be live and once the genie is out of the bottle thats it. It's appearent no one gives a shit what the industry says but in all my years I have never heard a more unified voice saying NO, especially since we are an industry that has a hard time getting along the large majority of us all agreed on something for once. Yet no one listened.