I'm not talking out of my ass on the College Invasion issue; my old organization and paper The Koala and myself talked extensively with Shane's World at one point a couple years back. I'm sure things at Shane's World have changed since then, but I'm doing my best to base all this out of personal experience and correspondence.
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Actually we pay them nothing. They throw a party and we come as the entertainment. They ask us to come to live out a fantasy. They know their is no pay what so ever.
Not entirely true from my experience. Brian contacted me *out of the blue*:
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:23:53 -0800 (PST)
From: "Shane's World" XXXXXXXXXX@earthlink.net>
To: XXXXX@ucsd.edu
Subject: Shane's World
Hi Steven,
Not sure if this is the Steven that made the student adult video? If you are, please contact us at 818 XXX-XXXX.
We'd like to talk to you about your story.
Brian Grant
shanesworld.com
I had a bit of correspondence with Nicole Henderson and Brian before handing it over to a Koala staff member as I was busy with running the paper. Shane's World originally offered me $5K for ownership and promotion of my original video from February 2005 which I turned down...(not Risin' Fees and Poppin' B's with Trinity James and where that fatty photo of me came from that XPT *loves* so much). I did not have proper model releases or 2257 from the girl who I did it with. (on a side note I had no clue what 2257 was at the time and learned all about it after that, and Shane's didn't seem super concerned with the legal issues regarding the video itself in offering that type of cash). After turning the video buy offer down, Shane's World and The Koala did talk about the idea of hosting a College Invasion party (but a number of issues, including the news coming out from Chico and the suspensions in late March 2005 hit at the same time and not getting enough people to be interested in actually dropping their pants, plus a few people on staff figured we should just do the porn stuff on our own and not basically publicize a multi-million dollar company for free).
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Although we do pay to have their house cleaned after the party.
And at the time your company offered to pay for "tight security" as well as the booze consumed. It wasn't like we would throw a party and Shane's World would show up, your company had very tight and stringent restrictions on publicizing it, the security used, who could come (including IDs and model releases), where it would be held, how many people, etc. I know how much work goes into doing it by the book in the safest legal fashion.
Really, don't take any of this personally Megan as I do enjoy Shane's World's products and pick them up from time to time when they catch my attention, and most of my experiences with the company happened slightly before (I believe) you were hired there.
NOW BACK TO THE REAL ISSUE...PIRACY!
I was a bit puzzled your company supposedly hired Jeffrey/Fredrick Douglas to chair that debate yesterday and try to have FSC hijack your hardwork in the piracy issue and roundtable. If Mike South's report posted on LukeisBack is right, I'm glad a few people there had the balls to put them in their place. 
I wish I could have made it yesterday as my experience with bit torrent programs is a bit more unique; they have made it possible for me to distribute my content when I've felt it was necessary to get it out there to as many people as possible for free (for legal and First Amendment issues given all the controversy my stuff's caused over the years and the media attention) given my limited budget and income when it comes to having to accommodate tens of millions of web-hits and downloads. Bit torents have literally saved me *thousands* of dollars in hosting costs. It just sucks I'm the 1% of people who use them legally and for good.
Its just like YouTube; its such a powerful program when its user-generated, but can become such a total bane of copyright holders. Its one of those issues where you can't successfully attack the program, but rather the individual perps.
Just don't go after college kids first thing. 
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