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First and formost .. don't believe everything you read. The first version of the RollingStone article didn't trash us ..(snip)



Go back and try *reading* my posts. I never mentioned the future repercussions of starring in a porno, my reasoning was simply the finances and money involved. I mentioned I thought it was *ridiculous* the price Shane's World paid those college kids for participating and starring in videos given the amount of profit and publicity it was garnering for the company.

Shane's World had *no* problems paying Kurt Lockwood, a so called millionaire, $3600 to take a fake cock balls deep in his ass, but only $100 (which I assume is accurate as you didn't take any issue with that number) to a poor college kid when compared to a normal Shane's World release (like I assume Kurt's strap-on movie)..."Campus Invasion sold *five* times the normal amount?" C'mon, $100 is less than what the fucking AIM test costs!

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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.



Once again, I never said anything about unknowing participants, but rather ill-informed ones.

Yet state governments acting through public colleges and universities, especially outside California, can take a number of steps to fuck up student's lives after starring in adult productions, whether for Shane's World or other companies (and even within California...the frat up at Chico?). The law is on *their* side unfortunately in these cases.

I've spent much of the last two years of my life trying to change that; when your company was out making millions I was up in Sacramento living on the cheap and calling a stinky couch in Davis my home while meeting with state legislators to get laws passed protecting Free Expression on college campuses AND for that protection to *include* adult expression. California has the strictest protections in the nation for First Amendment issues like this and it hasn't come without hard work.

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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.



And there's ways to go about it that minimize negative P.R.; you could go out today and send out a hundred cease and desist letters to bit torrents and password sites and get something done about it, but that would just favor temporary progress over long term solutions. I think piracy is more akin to racism as a problem; its deeply entrenched in society, varies from group to group, and there's no easy instant solution.

The 18-25 crowd (the ones perpetuating the bit torrent revolution) views sex as something that's so mainstream now that they do not view it as a novelty or a commodity, especially porno, really worth paying for when its so easily available through legal and illegal sources. There's no easy approach to changing this. They've (I can say we've) grown up with the internet and all the simulated sex they can get for free at their fingertips from the day they reach puberty.

I think the first step is taking pride in your product and continuing to be innovative with content, production and delivery methods, issues that Shane's World really does do best, and passing that mentality and pride onto your consumers...I can't say the same about other studios.

But enough with the banter between us...I think most people here would rather be anxious to hear the inside story on Casey Parker after Penny Flame's accusations as those have been discussed quite a bit too. What's the deal with that out of curiosity?


And for The Monster:
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If you can afford to pay for things, then you are simply a waste of flesh, and deserve to go extinct.



I'll keep that in mind Dr. Darwin.
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