Actually i would love to reply to your post ...

First and formost .. don't believe everything you read. The first version of the RollingStone article didn't trash us .. but an excutive decided we were much more interesting with the " we abuse college kids" slant. In order for us to show up to a College Party we are first and foremost invited by about 10-15 of a certain group of friends. We then actually warn them that if they plan on being president or anything like that .. don't be in the movie. We then actually disscuss STD's with them and pay to have anyone who thinks they may want to fuck a pornstar on camera, to have an AIM certified test. It's a 3-4 month process. So i wouldn't exactly say they are being taken advantage of.

On a second side note for that .. the kid who bitched and whines in Rolling Stone was class president ..which he did NOT inform us during filming. He should have known better. More importantly if i remember correctly, 2 months after that article after he stopped making money of his "sob story version" of the story. He called us for a job.

Do you REALLY think with todays goverment if we were truly exploting unknowing college students, we wouldn't be in jail? They ALL sign releases and show proof if ID! Everyone there is FULLY aware of what they are doing and what is going on.

Now on to the real issue. As far as piracy goes ... we wern't spear heading it. (BTW, the meeting was last nigh and it went great!) We simply offered up the money for the space to have the meeting. We listen to studios bitch all day long and do nothing .. including ourselves. So we are getting proactive. We have no problem with someone downloading our movie via one of the legal outlets. We spend a lot of time and money making what some people find to be enjoyable movies. Our major issue is with DVD piracy via replication and torrent sites.

Would you continue to show up to work if they stopped paying you but wanted you to keep working for free and hell even appreciate your work? All we are trying to do is protect what we put a lot of effort into. If everyone watches the movies for free we will not be able to continue to make such a truly original product! No one thinks about the 10 person crew we have to fly for each movie, the cost of talent, location, food, activities, replication, boxes to ship product, agent fees, warehouse staff, sales staff, printing, graphic desing and SO MUCH more that goes into each movie. We personally as a studio have on average double to triple the budget as a regular gonzo .. we want to be able to continue to offer something different. Our going after piraters is only going to protect those productions and hopefully at some point be able to bring out price in the stores down.

Megan