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Affilites Should Think Twice About Giving Out Personal Information …. right @AEBN?

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I don’t want to shock you here but there are some people in our business who are a little on the shady side. /sarcasm

When a webmaster joins an affiliate program they are often asked for a plethora of information. They say they need to verify your a real person, not just some scam site and for tax purposes.

That all sounds well and good and so unsuspecting webmasters give away all their personal details. They tell their real names, their addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers. All of this information could be really bad if it fell into the wrong hands. But surely reputable companies that you chose to do business with wouldn’t let that happen, right?

WRONG!

Sometimes even the best of companies fall victim to bad employees. Sometimes companies don’t know what is going on behind their backs and in the case of some companies, they don’t have any security protocols in place at all.

In about 1999 the Vivid webmaster database was compromised. While I can’t say for sure how much information was stolen, for sure they got to our names, addresses and emails. Since most likely all of that information was stored together the people who got their hands on the Vivid webmaster database at that time probably also got our  phone numbers and social security numbers too. All of our information was quickly sold off and spread through the spammer list world like wildfire and suddenly we were all getting insane amounts of junk mail and our email addresses were being sold off again and again and again.

We were told it was because the server was hacked but the only thing they took was the webmaster database. That totally seems believable right? I mean who wouldn’t want to access the server and get all that free porn, or customer data and credit card numbers. Right? Apparently webmaster’s personal information was ummm more important?

It is more likely however that their webmaster who at the time was a notorious drug addict who soon after landed in rehab, probably hijacked the list behind Vivid’s back and sold it off for drug money. But in the end, I guess we’ll never really know the truth. All we webmasters can say for sure if that our personal and private information was taken and sold off again and again and again. Years later, more than 10 years later in fact, I’m still getting spam from that email address.

But this story isn’t an isolated incident. Vivid Video isn’t the only company who has ever had a bad employee.

Bluebird Films is another great story of data being compromised. When I went to work for them they had ZERO security protocols in place. Your personal and private information was available to every single person who worked there – wide open for anyone to see and quite a few people did. And it got worse … their servers were hacked no less than five times the previous year and that includes the entire customer and webmaster database, WITH credit card numbers, home addresses, email address, phone numbers and whatnot.

The point I’m trying to make here is that you need to think very carefully about who you give out your personal information to.

Let’s look at a current situation – a company like AEBN

They are totally reputable, right?

Well perhaps. But that doesn’t mean they don’t hire employees who are problematic. In fact they currently employ someone who it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if we were to find out he hijacked the entire webmaster database and sold it to the highest bidder.

And then all of your personal and private information is out there because of some dickhead employee and there is nothing you can do about it. Your name, your home address, your phone number and even worse, your social security number is being traded or sold to person after person by this guy.

Some might argue, but it wasn’t really AEBN’s fault, it was the jackass who was shady. True. But AEBN hired him in the first place and continued to keep him on their payroll after being witness to his abusive online behavior. Anyone who is an online bully is clearly not someone you would want on your payroll because if they work for you, they represent you, and that means if they are harassing others online or just openly being a dick time and again to people then that makes you look bad.

I get it, it’s fun to be a jackass to people online. That’s why sites like GFY thrive because you can be abusive to others and get away with it. We call those kind of people keyboard warriors. They can get away with bullying other people because they can hide behind the anonymity of their computer. Only some of these people aren’t anonymous. Some of these guys work for companies … well known companies like AEBN.

Their behavior is a direct reflection of your company.

I would personally never do business with AEBN. Not because I have anything against their website or product, but because they hire certain types of people. And I wouldn’t want to risk my money, or my personal information in the hands of those kind of people. I have no problem telling them that either and last night I in fact did tell them just that and their response “He’s just a remote employee”. Ummm okay. Perhaps they don’t realize that the people they hire directly reflect on their companies reputation.  If a company hires an employee who is abusive to others online, what does that say about the company itself?

So the whole point of my story here is this …. you need to think carefully before signing up with an affiliate program because once you do they will want a lot of personal information from you. You might also want to consider a series of safeguards for your personal information which includes an alias or company name, a PO box to get your mail instead of your home address and if you are a US webmaster you really want to give them an EIN (employee identification number) instead of your real social security number and always try and use alias emails such as affiliate-program-name@yourdomain.com. Now when they sell off your email address you will be able to know because they were the only person to have ever had that email address and you can nail them for it. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve caught over the years by doing that one little thing.

None of this may seem important to you right now but trust me when I say, you will give two fucks when you get your identity stolen.

It is your information and therefore your job to protect it. Don’t just give away all of your personal and private details and then hope for the best!

 

AEBN flips the middle finger to Johnny Law

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Have you ever heard of a little thing called Cambria’s list of naughty no no’s?  Well if you are an adult wembaster of any kind, you better damn sure make sure you find out exactly what the fuck I’m talking about.   If you have seriously never heard of this shit and you are in the adult business, that’s just down right fucking scary but here, click here to read a great resource article about it.   The long and short of it is, Cambria’s list is a guide of sorts on how to avoid pissing off THE MAN.  There is so much money to be made in the adult business legally, why take the risk of doing anything that you know damn well will get you busted.  Sounds simple enough, right?  Well it really is.

Paul Cambria is a big time first amendment attorney based out of New York who works with all of the big companies including Vivid and Hustler.  Many years ago he created a list to held guide companies of hot topics that are known to get you in trouble.  For example, kissing is okay but making out with your first cousin on film is probably not.

The list in itself is not a bible, it should really be considered more of a guide.  Some of the sexual acts on the list are highly controversial in themselves but in the end, even if we don’t think it’s okay, these items are on the list for a reason and that reason is simple, every item on this list can pretty much guarantee a conviction for obscenity in various places throughout the US, especially in Southern states and apparently in many locals in Florida.

Some of the heated topics are no black men with white women, no male on male penetration, no bi-sexual acts and no transsexuals at all.

  • no shots with the appearance of pain or degradation
  • no facials (bodyshots are ok if shot is not nasty
  • no bukakke (ie: 10 guys coming on one girl)
  • no spitting or saliva mouth to mouth
  • no food used as sex objects
  • no peeing unless in a natural setting (field, roadside)
  • no coffins
  • no blindfolds
  • no wax dripping
  • no two dicks in/near one mouth
  • no shots of stretching pussy
  • no fisting
  • no squirting
  • no bondage or bondage type toys or gear unless very light
  • no girls sharing same dildo (in mouth or pussy)
  • toys are okay if shot is not nasty
  • no hands from 2 different people fingering same girl
  • no male/male penetration
  • no transsexuals
  • no bi-sex
  • no degrading dialogue (suck this cock bitch)
  • no slapping her face with penis
  • no menstruation topics (women on the rag)
  • no incest topics
  • no forced sex, rape themes, etc.
  • no black men, white women themes

Some of the things on this list are more serious than the others.  For example, you are probably more likely to be a target if you feature a site about rape, even if it is simulated, as compared to like two men fingering a girl at the same time with a banana.

In the end you have to ask yourself, how much risk are you really willing to take?

Companies have really gotten lax lately on these rules.  Did you know that Vivid featured a movie with two sisters, related by blood (half sisters actually as they share the same father) have lesbian sex with each other in the Vivid movie Stood Up.  Oh it’s true.  Lanny Barby and Kimberly Franklin are the two I speak of.

Lanny Barbie and Kimberly Franklin

To date nobody has really made that big of a deal of Vivid, a major studio releasing a movie featuring lesbian incest, so   I do want to mention I am told apparently eating your sisters pussy isn’t illegal in all 50 states, only some.  Bit it only takes 1 state for it to be illegal in, and only 1 store own or webmaster promoting it to get arrested as a result.  Do you really want that to be you? ^^

I can see why other smaller webmaters think it’s okay for them to do stupid shit too.  But I assure you it isn’t.  It’s not a matter of *IF* you get caught, it is when.  I promise eventually THE MAN will catch up with you.  Stop being dumb asses.  Just because people that are bigger and more famous like Vivid with their incest video do it, doesn’t mean you should too.

But you know I’m being to harsh on Vivid.  I heard that they didn’t even know the two girls were related at the time the movie was made, and only found out way after the DVD came out which was nearly a year later.  At least that is the rumor I heard about it.

But you know who I won’t be letting off the hook so easy today? AEBN.com.

Why might you ask?  Well the feature pissing and fisting movies.

Have you seen the AEBN Pissing Pay Per View site they are offering to affiliates?  Not only does it feature pissing but on the front page, first video – it features a fat chick being fisted.

aebn-pissing-fisting

There is nothing that pisses me off more (ha no pun intended) that big companies like AEBN being so blatantly irresponsible, throwing caution to the wind, as if they were inviting trouble.  Does the adult industry not have enough problems that we need this shit coming down on us too?  Do we really need to invite that kind of attention to our industry?  It’s like they don’t fucking care that they are hurting all of us, the entire industry as a whole when they do stupid shit like this.

What in the fuck were you thinking AEBN?

Right now the feds are busy with a world of other shit.  We don’t want to draw their attention our way but as long as companies like AEBN keep doing stupid shit like this, then we are going to eventually attract their attention and that can only mean trouble.

We as an industry need to start taking responsibility for our own actions and really pay attention to what in the fuck we are doing.   We need to review Cambria’s list and really think hard about some of the more serious things on it like ummm pissing and fisting and do what we can to avoid trouble.  Use your fucking brains people.  Seriously.

And for those companies who refuse to use common sense or do what seems to be going out of their way to bring negative publicity and trouble to all of the industry, maybe we should be the responsible ones and send them a message by not doing business with them.