If the manwin rumors are true, will you continue posting here?
 

Just curious.... If manwin comes to own GFY one way or the other, would you continue to post here ?

Yeah, manwin steals content and doesn't afraid of anything.

of course they will post here where else will the Trolls with no life go to post?

It pays the rent,probably

Damn Eric pays your rent??? I need to talk to him and renegotiate my contract :mad:

Yes I would :)

I thought those rumors had been debunked a few days ago already..

Why would you not post here if this is biggest adult community? ~ If somebody else bought Apple, you wouldn't buy their products?!

Did you believe Epass when they said everyone's money was in motion and that everything was fine?

It would be in their best interest to hide a Manwin connection to AVN for as long as possible.

Though today lots of talk about Manwin in negotiations with Jules Jordan to buy his company. If they do, I wonder if they will DMCA themselves.



Would you hang out with a dude who robbed your house repeatedly?

Some people do have a little bit of integrity around here. Not everyone is mercenary.

Gotta hand it to Manwin and co - they have some huge ass balls and have taken the industry by the scruff of the neck.

:thumbsup

yes i would :winkwink:

They first fucked the content producers,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a content producer.

Then they fucked the program owners,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a program owner.

Then they took all the traffic,
and I didn't speak up because I didn't deal in traffic.

Then they started fucking me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up so I had to go back to flipping burgers.

They show others how business gets done.

Yep. Business is business.
:2 cents:

By doing what?

They are big enough to take this industry and shake it into the 21st century, but what I see is still the same model that was around in 1999. Put up cheap sites and spend a ton of money throwing traffic at it.

Fabian recently said they had something big to launch, another cheap site to throw tons of non converting traffic at or a really awesome idea to take this business by the scruff of the neck. Or a new Tube site?

maybe cams or dating,

Probably not.

Or some magic join links.

Nothing against will or any others, but:

Its amazing how many people still deal with "others" that do almost similar things. But then, its considered "normal".

I mean, theres brokers happy enough to buy, sell, and resell traffic from illegal tubes.
Theres a HUGE amount of people buying ads on sites promoting or spreading illegal content and full site rips. Im seeing popunders of a huge company on EVERY tradesite i can find, most of them also hosting, or linking to full lenght videos with copyrights.
How many webmasters are sending programs with illegal content their traffic, because they get a buck more then with someone else?

It seems that nobody cares when it comes to a point to make a decision: If there is money to be made, nobody will pass on the oppurtunity.

Again, not directed at anyone.. just my 2 cents. People will always be around to make money, no matter what. Thats the adult entertainment we made.

I don't know...

Baddog is our new Dogfather. Where he goes, we follow.

I'm no angel myself but I've learned not to do business with the scum. There was one sponsor I once promoted who had a bunch of stolen art. It did quite well. I let it go because it was an old school program when started and times were different then. However a few months after sending joins he knocked my percentage down to 20% without any notification. Then there is AFF. I did well with them for years and mostly ignored the bad things about them because they seemed to make me more money. Now do some searches and read the messages people have been posting about their conversions in the last six months. Then there's another guy here who had a program I liked and could easily convert. I recently read that he did some shady stuff in the past but I decided to ignore it. Come to find out recently he changed his program in a way which screws over affiliates badly. And let's look at the people getting screwed by programs and partners running away with the money. If you look carefully in most of these cases you'll find that there were warning signs and that they had a bad history.

In my opinion if you deal with people who have no business ethics eventually you too will become their victim. But do what you want. It's your business.

I didnt say people should, or that im dealing with them. People just do..

Didn't take any balls...

They just ran hard with the ball. It took some poorly written legislation and some deep pockets.

At the end of the day it is what it is. You cannot change the present but you can change the future.

:Oh crap

No, they show everyone how to build a criminal enterprise. That's not how honest business gets done, but that is how you end up with the feds freezing 5.3 million dollars of your dirty money and lots of people who would love to watch their houses burn with them inside of it. :2 cents:

If getting business done means fucking everyone else in the business over and stealing from them, I'll pass. I'm doing fine just the way I am. I don't need to rip-off anyone to make a living. Besides, I wouldn't want to have to answer to whoever is behind the dirty Russian money funding an organization like that. Nothing ever ends well with those types.

Sure, they are making legit moves now, but it all comes on the backs of everyone else they fucked along the way. It was a well executed plan and it is exactly what this industry deserves. I hope they end up owning everything. A fitting ending for such an incestuous and dysfunctional industry. The sooner they do, the quicker most of you who support them will have to go work somewhere else. And considering many here live week to week, it ain't gonna be pretty for a whole lot of ya.

prob not.

LOL all you morons know you will keep posting here, common!! ;-)

I agree but I'm not convinced that the money is coming from the industry itself. Nathan says otherwise but I wonder who is really behind the scenes as you go higher up. Most organizations in this industry would not survive a government seizure as Mansef did and few have the cash these days to buy up as much as Manwin has.

They claim to own webcams.com now and as I recall it switched hands right around April 2010 or thereabouts. I believe that's also around the time when the U.S. Secret Service seized millions from them. It's not just everyone who has the fucking United States Secret Service after them you know. Someone had to have provided some financial support for them to survive.

How many people here think they could survive the US secret service seizing their assets? Show of hands please. That's what I thought.

stand up bros

Wasn't the money seized from ManSef and not ManWin?

Correct. That's why I was very careful to specify ManSef in regards to seizures and ManWin in regards to buying up companies. It's claimed that the two do not have a common ownership structure but many people are skeptical. I'm not sure about the timing of the webcams deal. If t occurred in early 2010 was it first bought technically by ManSef and later became a Manwin asset or was it originally purchased by ManWin? Maybe Nathan will answer.

Actually I misread your post...but I suspect that the seizure is probably why ManSef started selling assets to ManWin but I also suspect there are some legal structuring that still involves the top echelon of ManSef...but I do not know that it should matter to anyone other than those involved in the structuring. The fact is ManWin exists...and all of the whining on this board is not going to change that.

It would really really suck. :(

I think that as long as the brand of GFY remains intact I would continue to be active on this board. A company would have to purchase this property and ruin it completely, make huge sweeping changes for me to bolt. GFY has value to me on almost a daily basis so yeah, I would continue to add my 2 cents whenever I had something to contribute even if a company I may not approve of bought it.

It matters to me. I want to avoid having a connection to them and whatever other activities they or the people funding them may be involved in. There's also the matter of the stolen content harming the industry by which I make my living. Of course I'm going to speak out and I want to know what they own so I can avoid them. After all who knows maybe the Secret Service will stop by again and give them a little more attention? I'd rather NOT be associated.

Every board has it's place. GFY is a great tool for researching good and bad companies and gives you access to most adult webmasters in one go. MP is a nice adult chat board, IW is great for business and newbie talk, GG&J is great for linklist discussion, and ADX is nice also for general biz and chat, JBM has a lot of program owners and program discussion. NP is just a spam board and great for program spam :)

Thing is GFY serves a valuable purpose and regardless of who owns it .. it will continue to be a good tool for Adult webmasters.

You're really something else.

You know, it's one thing to be a gutless worm for reasons ranging from having a family to feed all the way on down to just plain being too cowardly to be anything else.

That I can understand.

But you take it to a whole new level. You actually take pride in being the complete and utter douche that you've shown yourself to be from day one.

I pity your bathroom mirror :disgust
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this. :2 cents:

Watch out! Big bad Fabian is coming for you! Lock up your daughters and wives! He speaks softly but swings a big dick! I hear he might even take our guns!

Haha yea let's run and hide when he buys GFY, let's hang our heads and go cry into a beer and sell our business' for peanuts...

I sure hope he does buy this shit hole so we know he's listening while we tear him new assholes daily. However he is being pretty tight lipped about it, wouldn't even tell me this morning even after I brought him breakfast in bed.

Don't like him then fight back bitches, buncha fuckin schoolgirls.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Joseph Goebbels

Seriously, who is going to purchase a company right after the feds just froze 5.3 million dollars of that companies money?

Either no one, or a ex-programmer who just happened to be sitting on a cool 100 million. Which of course, according to all the programmers I know, is a usual amount to be sitting on for that profession. "Programming pays!" they all say as they party on their giant yachts while pouring Cristal over naked Cuban bitches as they dance to Biggie Smalls.

Bottom line is, I fucked up. I should have been a programmer. :2 cents:

I suspect that you are never going to know all that you want to know or even all that they own. It appears to me that their plans are to eat the little dogs until they are the largest dog on the block so it will probably become more and more difficult to avoid doing business with them...providing one intends to stay in the adult business world.

In addition many if not most of the existing companies started with shady practices and many if not most still have shady practices. I can not keep track of all of them so I really don't try to...but there are some companies that I will not do business with as I become aware of them...or the assholes involved with them.

I am only an affiliate and I only dabble with websites to occupy my time as I am retired...so I don't depend on any of it for a living...so none of it is of any real import to me.

That's what many of us have been doing for a long time. :2 cents:

The POWA of the Dark Side
 

Don't be shocked when Boris and Vlad pop up somewhere within AVN. :2 cents:

I think there's a good chance of more government intervention into their activities but that's just my opinion because I get the feeling they are dirty. I also believe there's a good chance of them being successfully sued for their lax repeat offender policies. I believe there may potentially be some other damaging things which could come out in discovery as well. I think it's a matter of time. Again this is just my opinion. Even if none of the above happens, the industry changes. Laws and procedures change. The game might one day be up.

You mean like.....

1. Pre-Checked Cross Sales?
2. Banging Credit Cards?
3. Selling Customer Data?
4. Fucking Over Affiliates?
5. Merchant Account/MID Bouncing Scams?
6. Financing Hollywood Movies with Client's Funds?
7. Installing Scumware
8. Shaving

Oh right. We were talking about ONLY Brazzer's in this discussion. Not fucking over customers, affiliates, or more than a decade's worth of other bullshit that has went on in this industry.

My bad.
:upsidedow

:thumbsup

And if you're cool with sucking Fabian's dick, you must have been fine with most, if not all, of the above.

Next.
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really? you thinks Fabians background as a programmer has any bearing on what he has the ability to do right now? Or that 5.3 Mil chump change would slow his drive for aquisitions? He's the fucking Borg DWB, you will be assimilated.

Sorry princess. I do not think I made mention of your apparent homosexual obsession.

Next.
:pimp