Well I must say, I've known Pad a long time. He's a solid dude, as well as a massive jackass(in a good way if you know him
).
My opinion though is that the industry needs to be careful about what details of our business practices are made public. I don't think there's anything morally wrong with a 17 year old pushing porn(if they're mature enough to sell it, they're mature enough to see it). The problem is that GFY is possibly the largest adult webmaster community on the web. If GFY gets attention for being a haven for providing minors with information on the porn industry, it reflects bad upon adult.com, all their associates(playboy, etc) and the industry as a whole.
If I was 17 and still making a living off spam I doubt I'd care about the state of the adult industry, because I'd be making easy money. Fact is I'm not a spammer anymore and what happens to adult as a whole affects me directly.
I think the worst thing to do is make a big shit out of it. Starting a billion threads is just like putting up a billboard " FLASH NEWS - DETAILS ABOUT MINORS PROMOTING PORNOGRAPHY FILM AT 11 ".