Read an interesting story today at Adult FYI about a “very well known, very very well know” porn company going out of business.  This could have major ramifications for a lot of other people in the business.   Especially if this company in question owes you money.  I have no idea who this company is but I suspect we will find out soon enough.

Which Major Porn Company is Going Out of Business? Take a Guess.  Thursday night I get a phone call from the owner of a very well known porn company. Very well known. Very, very well known.  He called me with “bad news”. The bad news was that the monthly deal I had with him was coming to an end. Basically, I was freelancing some daily copy for his website. Pretty clever stuff I must admit, though obviously not under my byline. I used to do this all the time back in the days of Extreme Associates, so I know the drill when it comes to providing wacky, colorful shit to accommodate pix and video clips.

[The chump change in this day and age, by the way, was enough to pay the bills, but not nearly enough to afford me the luxury of hookers.]

“You know that article you wrote the other day about the death of the porn industry?” www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=45160 he continued, noting that his own company was soon to be one of the fresh corpses in a porn film noir plot, and I was about to be the sap, the sucker, the patsy, the fall guy.

The owner tells me it’s bad out there. But apparently to make me feel better about the fact that he was reaching into my pocket to retrieve the Metro Bus pocket change that was obviously weighing my cargo pants down, he told me that his salesman was also having his salary cut, and that his webguy was going to have to double up and take over the job I was doing. Info which I really don’t give two shits about.

So I say to the guy, at least make sure the final check goes out ASAP because I have bills. He assured me it would.

Okay, so let me get this straight. The lousy money he was taking out of my pocket was somehow going to save his company in an eleventh hour last ditch attempt. Well, consider this.

This site has the biggest mouth in the business when it comes to leaks. If said owner, who asked me to keep our conversation hush-hush, doesn’t think that one story naming names puts out the red alert that his company’s toxic, he needs to think again by giving it to a gossip monger in the shorts. Dumb, dumb, really dumb.

The industry is funny this way. Because it’ll be interesting times for all trying to collect payables when people realize he’s about to close his doors. Ever see buzzards hovering over a fallen moose competing for the carcass?

Let’s see: keep the story hush-hush, but you’re taking money out of my pocket? Yeah, sure, of course. Mums the word.