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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.
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).
We have offered lots of people money based on movies. But you never got to the next step it seems .. first we offer and negociate based on the movie. Then once that's setteled we go to step 2 .. which is all the legal stuff. Trust me we are nazi about the 2257 stuff .. and actually the FBI showed up here and we passed with flying colors. They said we were 1 or only 2 companis that had zero infractions and didn't need to take the 5 days to go back and correct something.
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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.
I forgot we do pay for security. But i am asure you with 120% accuracy we would never ever or ever have paid for drinks. That is one of the things we are 120% on. We can't nor wouldn't. That is the party throwers job if they choose to. The restrictions on where it is held is one rule .. MUST be off campus housing. And be big enough to throw a party and have us shoot in it. We are request somewhere where we can tape up tarps over the windows and such so no one who shouldn't see in .. can.
We never suggest publiclly saying we are there. Why would we do that? it's like asking the cops to break up the party. We ask you to make the party well known so that their can be as many people there as possible. Well because a College Invasion wouldn't be a College Invasion if 6 guys were sitting on their couch LOL So no we don't want to spend the money to get out somewhere and pay everyone to party with 6 dudes LOL. Which so far we haven't had a problem with LOL We also ask that a certain amount of people are interested in performing. Of course!! We don't want to show up and have a bunch of wall flowers LOL
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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.
I don't at all! I am proud to work somewhere that i think makes a great product. But trust me .. i have a tough skin =)
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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. 
We NEVER hired Jeffery to moderate it. That was an inaccurate statement from Mike South. We hired a moderator from outside the industry to do a great job. Jeffery came on his own accord.
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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.
Why not distribute it through AEBN? Or Hotmovie? or any of the other places that let you actually make a profit and provide customer service to the customer viewing it if they have issues?
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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. 
This is the thing .. the goverment jumps down our throat about 2257 and protecting kids ... where is the docmention for bit torrent sites? a 12 year old can go on any of those networks and get it for free. My other issue .. the quality usually sucks!! i want people to view our stuff in "full glory" LOL Bit torrents sometimes edit clips out of order. Most of our stuff has a story and some funnies .. those are some of the things that make us unique. I have so problem with someone using a 2 minute preview to drive traffic to our site and make some money off our affiliate program. But a whole movie? That bothers me ... as i am sure once you have distribution .. you will see .. every download is another movie you could have sold. I don't even want to start on the store who are doing crappy replication in a back room ... the compression sucks and the menus usually dont work.
xoxo,
Megan
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