Duke Dollars 2257 announcement.
 

Hello folks,

After much debate, and viewing all sides of the issue, we at Duke Dollars have decided on how we will proceed. There are many things about this law that are burdensome, immoral, and just downright unconstitutional, but as of now it's the law.
Being a hardcore sponsor, our content will not sell the same if we are to cut out sexually explicit material. This puts us as program owners between a rock and a hardplace. I have to proceed with what is best for my partners and my affiliates. I am doing this under duress as I am forced to comply with the law as my type of business model/content is useless without sexual explicitness. We are not selling pom pom swinging teens or girls rubbing tanning lotion on themselves on a beach somewhere. We are selling nitty gritty hardcore porn that cant be sold via any other way but with an "in your face method."

Regardless of the moral issues for or against, I am simply following the law.
Here is how we will proceed.

1. We will be offering ID's for sexually explicit material to responsible affiliates.
2. New affiliates will be screened to see if they are infact legitmate before sending out sensitive data.
3. Inactive affiliates or affiliates that are unproductive will not get sensitive information unless they can prove their legitmacy via text links/hosted galleries before I divulge sensitive data.
4. Approved affiliates will be receiving 2257 info between the 15th-22nd of this month.

Many of our models are already aware of these changes. Our release form has always stated that we reserve the right to pass on sensitive information if need be and/or required to. Many of our models are in fact industry girls and have known about this for months already.

That aside, it seems many softcore companies are not giving out ID's. I respect that. I do not know of many hardcore companies that arent giving out ID's. I could be wrong though. But one thing for sure is the two business models differ to a great extent, and this is an enumeration of the fact. It's one thing to cut out, for example, some dildo play when a girl is on the beach and the first 50 photos are her applying tanning oil in the waves, but when your content is hardcore from beggining to the end it is clear that either I do what the law requires or I am out of business. My business model has been very sucessful and if I were to change it my business would suffer. I have to proceed the same way I was up to this point. That means under the new law I am required to give out ID's. As I stated prior, I am doing this under duress; not on my own free will and accord. I do not want to give out ID's but I do not see my business model surviving any other way.
I hope you respect my descision.

Sincerely,
Duke (Duke Dollars.com)

yessss...I gotta go put up some lacey content so I can get that addy :)

Plus I get to keep one of my favorite banners up:
http://www.blackvaginafinder.com/ban...ttogaggers.gif

Tough spot to be put in.

I still havent decided if i am going to sanatize documents. I might just have to take my chances on sanatizing them.
I am not putting you on teh cross bvh, but this is not a comment I want to hear from a "responsible affiliate"

Duke

for sure.. :(

Duke

Good choise.

Sucks that the law is forcing you to do this but because of your harder than hardcore nature you really have no choice other than to release all the info. I'll be sending a lot of traffic your way as you are handling this the right way i know i won't get fucked by the law. I already knew i wouldn't get fucked by uou guys as i'm not cute and blonde and you are trust worthy guys:)

excellent post and nice explanation duke

good stuff duke, you have built a great program in DukeDollars. keep it up

Can't wait to see all the lawsuits go down on this 2257 craziness.

Duke, as I said to you the other night.

I support you 100% in this decision, and i know it was not an easy decision that you took lightly. I am sorry it had to come to this for us all.

I know you will do everything in your power to handle your biz situation the best for all parties involved.

:thumbsup :thumbsup

Dave

Yes, it will be horrible.. But hopefully it will be the straw that breaks the 2257 camels back.
Duke

I would have sworn that the :) at the end of my comment designated what I was saying as a joke. I only build sites with my own content. I thought that was already understood.

Believe me, I couldn't give two shits about where Lacey is.

What will be your requirement for affiliates? Photocopy of drivers license and passport..., something like that?

Thanks Dave,
our conversation the other night was very informative and I thank you for that. I thank you for supporting my descision.
Much appreciated,
Duke

I still see this as putting profits before people. There are several ways you could stay in business, and do quite well without giving out private information on your models/performers to many people who are essentially strangers to you.

For example, you claim to be running a successful program, so hire a few in-house/contract people that will do all your gallery posts, etc., and end your affiliate program. My first responsibility is to my models/performers, not to affiliates. Affiliates can always start pushing softcore sites, penis extenders, and pills, until if and when the law changes.

Hustler and other hardcore sites manage to do quite well with no hardcore in their Guest Tour. Even my one-person operation does quite well without showing hardcore in the Guest Tour.

Well, hopefully your decision will not lead to any models being harmed, abused or worse (I've seen your work - I mean abused more than they are in your videos, j/k).

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I know bro. I am sorry. I just am a little uptight about the whole thing :(

Duke

You gotta do what you gotta do Duke.

It all depends on what my attorney tells me what to do.

I'll keep you posted.
Duke

that's cool man. no harm no foul.

Dukedollars is One of the Most Professionally Run Affiliate Programs out there :) :thumbsup :2 cents: They do a great deal to keep their affiliates happy!!

Enough ranting.....now let me get straight to the point :pimp

Anyways.....Do we responsible affilated also get ID's of the Male Pornstars in your Scenes......I am interested in Adress, Phone Number and Data of Cough* Big Red Cock Machine* :winkwink:

Thanks good buddy

duke

tough position to be put in, but you got to do what you got to do

Glad you understand bro.

duke

It'll definately get interesting.

especially when paris hilton makes a stink.

duke

I agree.

No one is forcing ANYONE to give out IDs.

This is a choice. YOUR choice.

Giving out the personal information (regardless of the quasi-qualification of recipients) is putting your talent (the ones who actually make your money for you) in harms way.

However, given that the nature of the niche in question is all about abuse fantasies (pandering to the date rapist mentality), it stands to reason that this exploitation (not giving a shit about women or their safety - as demonstrated by the decision made here) would find its way to the models in real life as well.

Choices and consequences.

It looks like the 'right wingers' might be right about how they characteristize pornographers as being sleazy bastards who will exploit anything and anyone - as long as they make a buck doing it.

Unless I misunderstood, that IS the rationale being offered here - it's the only way to make a buck (by giving out the model info)?

-Dino

Great! Very nice post Duke. I will be hitting you up soon to get some model ids so I can keep pushing your program! :thumbsup

This is another example of how well Duke runs his business. If you aren't one of his affiliates already you damn well oughta be...

duke....

does this mean I can finally have your home adress???

you are entitled to you opinion. I respect that. I am above calling you names back as I have been everytime you have called me a sleaze. I truly am sorry you feel this way, but I knew this would cause dissention and I am prepared to take on the chin what is dished. You more are kicking me when i'm down though; this whole situation has me extremly besides myself to the point that I am embarrased to admit the extent to which it is effecting me. But I have to do what I have to do.
Duke

Yes and every tuesday is movie night so come by then :)

Duke

:1orglaugh :winkwink: :1orglaugh

One more on the given out id's and keeping their affiliates promoting them.

I am not taking ID's either way. I am just going to stop being a secondary producer at this point.

Good for you Duke... :thumbsup

All the haters can :321GFY

I'm ready to do that thing we talked about if you can let me get access to some content of Lacey for promoting it.

Good luck bro.

good decision. protect yourself, protect your revenue flow, and do you best to protect the models, regardless that its the gov that put you in that position and failed to recognize comments made in the regs that were ignored without care of the models health and well being. point the fingure where it belongs. the models have been cast a side by the very gov that says they enacted this law to protect them. they are basically saying that at age 17 you have a right to be protected by this law, but at age 18, coupled with the decision to film some adult content, you missy are not entitled to shit, in fact, we the gov are going to tell the world where you live so you can be placed in danger for such crimes against the church and society. you miss model are no better than the common criminal or degenerate. we will not protect you. thank you. Signed. GOV.

according to the gov, models are worthless.

I sell duke and reds home addresses cheap :winkwink: j/k

I know from speaking to duke and red this was a hard hard decision for them to make. Good luck with your decision :thumbsup

Duke, I highly doubt he is an affiliate, so his opinion is worth about :2 cents: IMHO

Its a good thing I'm a trusted affiliate :)

sounds good Duke, that's what i'm doing as well :)

What's your attorney's take on sanitizing the documents and what extent does the attorney agree that you can do such?

I hope to see hundreds of them, in the end the industry will be much better :thumbsup

As for DukeDollars, that is deffy a good approach (different from the ones we have been seeing lately)

You can have mine. :Graucho :Graucho

But on a serious note..
I could tell just by the tone of Duke's statement that this came at long and hard thought, and he didn't take this decision lightly.

It does suck, and I've been content, so I know how scary it is to think that total strangers have access to my personal information; to the home where me and three kids sleep at night. But I knew when I posed that it was a possibility. I don't think I grasped the full scope of the possibility, but still, I knew.

Anyway, I guess my point is that I think the blame for placing these girls at risk belongs on the lawmakers, not the people trying to abide by the law.

dude, i like your stuff, but i think you're pussying out... cats just don't stand up & fight anymore. its not right, don't do it, go to court & win. that's all i have 2 say. :2 cents:




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Good to see someone finally understands that some of the people offering models ids (such as Duke and his extremely hardcore program) really don't have a choice to not offer them.

Like you said, don't hate on the people that are abiding by the law. He is tryinn to make a living to. :2 cents:

I'd just like to add that this was a decision we thought long an hard about. We were in close contact with our attorneys before any decision was made. We spoke about this for quite a while and slept on it for many days... This was our conclusion and we are more than willing to stick to it, continue business as usual and screen affiliates a little closer.

Sure it would be easy to hire in house people to submit, promote, etc... But we have built up a strong affiliate program and I know that we'd have many disappointed affiliates if we closed shop. We love working with our affiliates and we don't wish to end that relationship, so a decision had to be made. Just be assured that we're not giving this sensitive information to any Joe Blow off the street.

Regardless of whether you agree or don't agree, please respect our decision and know that this is not something we decided without plenty of thought. This was a law enacted by the US Government and we are only trying to be compliant. We are each to read the law and come up with our own conclusions...this is ours. While it's the easy thing to point the finger and say that we don't care, you couldn't be further from the truth. Point the finger at the government and their lack of consideration for the models involved in this industry. remember... This effects the male talent just as much as the female pool. There is no easy decision.

dude... STAND UP & FUCKING FIGHT FOR WHAT'S RIGHT PLAIN & FUCKING SIMPLE. why are you doing it? to avoid going to court? put some money in an escrow for your attorney, batton down the fuckin hatchets & take advantage of the fuckin publicity. i don't see why cats r turning tail on this shit. :eek7




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FSC is doing that (or trying to) currently. We are members of the FSC. We are doing our part as a company to fight this assanine law, but there is only so much we can do at this time. I can't comment for Duke, but I think that at this time since there has been nothing to base the law on (previous prosecutions, etc), and there aren't a lot of lawyers who would want to be the first to challenge this. The time alone that it would take would halt our business to the point where our productivity would be severly hindered.

As an industry, our only hope would be as KRL said: That we can watch the lawsuits fly, convincing the lawmakers that this law is complete bullshit.

Anyways, this is a hard decision that we had to make. At this time, we found this to be the best way to handle things and until we are told different, our stance will remain as it is.

hey, i don't expect you to change but what's right is right, & wrong is wrong & any court will show that this is WRONG. your attorney will tell you the best thing for you as an individual company because you ARE a business. he wants to protect you & your money. he is less concerned about the privacy rights that r being violated when you "comply". its a selfish world... loads of cats will do the same thing. but think about this:

"IF YOU DON'T STAND UP FOR SOMETHING, YOU WILL FALL FOR ANYTHING."




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