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Going Down With a Blaze of Glory

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 23 February, 2010 Posted By: Ryan Rayzer

I used to tell a friend of mine, if you are going to go, go big.  He never did listen but apparently Brazzer’s fully understands this concept.

I was reading an article on Mike South today and if the story is true then Brazzer’s has decided to just say fuck it and go for gold and they are no longer hiding their criminal ways.  They are now out in the open, well at least in their members area fully illegally showing movies that belong to companies like Vivid, Wicked Pictures, Digital Playground, New Sensations, Evil Angel and more.

Here is the full story posted on the Mike South website.

It seems that Jules Jordans Daddy Brazzers has reached a new low, if you can believe that.

Yup they have a tube site INSIDE the Brazzers pay area, and guess whose content is on it?  If you Guessed Digital Playground, New Sensations, Digital Sin, Elegant Angel, Devils Films, JM productions, Wicked, Vivid, Evil Angel, Jules Jordan Video, First Time Video Girls,  HomeGrown, and pretty much everyone else in the biz, congrats you guessed right.

These assholes are the lowest of the low, I hope Pink Visuals burns them a new one.

And Jules Jordan…Fuck YOU you little douchebag, for putting money in these guys pockets so that they can do more of this shit, you are almost as low as they are.  Almost.



Digital Playground Cable Channel

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 28 January, 2010 Posted By: Ryan Rayzer

I was reading on Mike South’s website about the new Digital Playground cable channel coming out soon.  The long and short of it is ….

The channel will be a Pay per view outlet, not a subscription based service and it will be available on pretty much all of the cable TV outlets like Comcast, Versizon Fios, AT&T Uverse, COX  and Time Warner. When I asked if it would also be on satellite I was told that hasn’t been announced yet.

The service will begin offering only Digital Playground titles but in the future, the plans are to license other titles, as long as they comply with Digital Playgrounds strict quality and content standards.

Here is the full article from Mike South’s website ….

One of the things I have always admired about Digital Playground is that the companies owner, Joone, is not afraid to leverage technology. Say what you want but when everyone else was crowing that they were shooting in HD (2 mega pixels) Digital Playground was shooting with the Red 1 cameras at 16 megapixels.

A few weeks ago Digital Playground announced that it was going to be launching it’s own cable TV channel.

Joone was kind enough to answer some questions for me about this.

The channel will be a Pay per view outlet, not a subscription based service and it will be available on pretty much all of the cable TV outlets like Comcast, Versizon Fios, AT&T Uverse, COX and Time Warner. When I asked if it would also be on satellite I was told that hasn’t been announced yet.

The service will begin offering only Digital Playground titles but in the future, the plans are to license other titles, as long as they comply with Digital Playgrounds strict quality and content standards.

There will be different versions for different carriers as well so if hardcore isn’t acceptable in your area, softer versions will be available. Joone emphasizes that the carrier will choose how hard the version they will offer is, they will also choose whether they carry the standard definition version or the high definition version..

When asked if direct delivery was likely to supplant the old go to the video store model Joone replied, ” I think in this day and age its not about a single format its about giving the consumer options. Some want DVD, some want Blu-ray some want online and some want VOD to their bedroom tv.”

The content will be exclusive, no other VOD (Video On Demand) Branded system will offer it. The release schedule will follow the Hollywood style of window releasing. Our theatrical has been DVD and Blu-ray and after that window we go into VOD. We want to maximize each window release.

I asked Joone what was the most difficult aspect of bringing this to fruition. “Making blockbuster movies that make money and creating a high end library. At the end of the day the deal was an easy one because we had the right content” was his answer.

Finally I inquired as to what is next for Digital Playground.

“We have our own toy line that we have been working on for the past year lunching in Jan. We did a sneak peek at the Berlin show to a very select group of big distributors and they where blown away by what we have. Whats exciting for me is that these toy buyers see hundreds of toys each week and they really love what we have coming out.

You know what is interesting is for years the Berlin show was about DVDs. This last show I went to it was all about Toys, and Toys you can not download so there is going to be a need for distributors and stores.”



FSC Openly Promotes Shady Company

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 16 October, 2009 Posted By: Ryan Rayzer

I am sure your parents have told you that it isn’t what you know but who you know and apparently that really holds true for the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) and who they decide to hand out their awards to.

For awhile now Mike South has been saying they have issues over there but fuck, who knew that meant they down right smoked fucking crack and took bribes.  Well that has to be the case because it would be the only thing that could possibly explain what I seen today.

In this month’s issue of XBIZ World we find out that the FSC named Video Secrets their Top Internet Business of the Year.  Not get this part of the award ……  they give the award out based on the efforts of the company  to provide consumers, merchants and affiliates and the public at large with an ethical product.  I never thought I would hear the word “ethical” associated with Video Secrets unless it was something like name something they aren’t.   No but seriously, how much fucking crack do the people over at the FTC really smoke?  Video Secrets?  Seriously?

So what we’ve learned today, you don’t have to actually be ethical to get awards for good business practices …. just know the right people.  Damn good to know that the company who claims to be working for our best interest has no problem promoting a company that has had such a shady past.

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Video Secrets has been around a long time.  About 13 years I suppose.   If nothing else, you can at least give them that.  Throughout the years they have weathered problems with ownership, employees and rumors of shady dealings and things like very bad conversion ratios, double billing and shaving sales or stealing traffic through leaks.  The rumor of shaving sales has actually come up a lot over the years for Video Secrets.  I don’t know if anyone has ever proven they are screwing people but the rumor has been around long enough and comes up often enough to really make you wonder.

On the popular Playboy owned “GFY” or Go Fuck Yourself adult forums, a webmaster asked ” Which programs AREN’T worth signing up to?  I wanna know which cash programs that have screwed people over and haven’t paid them. Or shave from your sales.

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The very first post in response included Video Secrets.  But the thread didn’t just stop there.  Other webmasters would eventually chime in and say things like ….

Amen brother, I would soon 404 all my sites and send the traffic to Google than send a single click to Video Secrets.“  That’s pretty harsh for a program who just won a awards based on the ethics of their business practices don’t you think?

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And yet another webmaster said “Ain’t that the truth …. these guys are scum“.

These guys are scum?  Do you think that the people over at the Free Speech Coalition bothered to check into the years and years of accusations of wrongdoings by countless affiliates and consumers?  I don’t personally know if any one claim of fraud or unethical behavior has ever been proven to be true, including the one time rumor that Video Secrets back end affiliate software was created with the ability to manually manipulate affiliates accounts giving them the ability to shave sales, meaning we would just have to trust them not to do it …. but what I do know for a fact is that after so many years of hearing the same rumors and problems, even if they aren’t provable, I would think twice before associating myself with these people.   There have just been far to many complaints for there not to be a problem somewhere.

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But hey, maybe I’m wrong.  Maybe after all of these years and all of these different complaints by countless affiliates and consumers, they – the consumers and affiliates are the wrong wrong and maybe Video Secrets really isn’t guilty of all those things people say about them.  I mean, seriously … what the hell do I know?

I know these fuckers never did send me my $1200, after my payment supposedly got lost in the mail not once, not twice but an amazing three times … but whatever.  Good luck FSC with your ethical company of the year.  It only goes to show, that Mike South apparently was on to something about you guys.



Earlier this week Mike South was quick to send out a press release about a Playboy owned venture (GFY.com) took advertising money from a company who also just so happens to own a tube site.

Mike South besides his own blog, also happens to run a TGP. Basically a TGP site is sort of a picture post site, where other people submit a gallery of photos on his site and in return he shares in the advertising on that page of photos. In other words, every submitted photo gallery much include a link back to Mike South’s TGP site and the owner of the TGP (in this case Mike South) must approve any gallery page submitted.

So anyway the whole point I’m trying to make is that Mike South and his friends were quick to condemn Eric, GFY and Playboy for benefiting from a company who owns an illegal tube site when he himself is doing the exact same thing.

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Now before Mike South tries the expected response of he didn’t know, keep in mind that every single post submitted on his TGP has to be approved by him. As you can see from the screenshot above, the ad for Brazzers is very clear and right under his own name. You can’t quite miss that not once but MULTIPLE times.

So who cares if Mike South is pimping out Brazzers? Well remember earlier this week he called out Playboy / GFY for it.

Brazzers has been shown to be the owners of TrafficJunky (see link here on GfY), who works directly with illegal tube sites. TrafficJunky is the exact same site Mike South is up in arms about for them paying GFY for an ad. So he is in fact guilty of EXACTLY the same thing he is bitching about.

So to you Mike South I say POT KETTLE BLACK



Last week I got an email with some photos put out by the Playboy owned and operated site RealJanine.com, in which they proudly proclaim it to be Janine’s OFFICIAL website. The problem is, Janine hasn’t had anything to do with that website in years, and rumor has it, they haven’t been paying her any money from the site either. Janine’s actual OFFICIAL site, that she endorses, creates new content for and that actually gives her money for her work is FreeJanine.com. So for Playboy to mislead their consumers if if nothing else at least a little shady, wouldn’t you say?

Well Playboy also happens to own a website called GFY, for years it was a popular message board for adult webmasters to hang out and talk shit.  Recently they got a new paid advertiser, which just so happened to be a company who also owns an illegal tube site.   This is one of the posted messages in response from the webmasters who frequent the board.

Dear playboy stockholders,

It has come to my attention that one of playboys assets has been advertising sites that steal its own product and then gives it away. I find it hard to believe supporting sites that give your product away will make you money. Playboy shares have dropped steadily since gfy started advertising sites that directly profit from the theft of playboy content.

Do you think playboy should take a stronger stance when it comes to who it advertises for ? Do you think playboy should stop supporting these sites ? or do you think supporting these sites that give away your product will improve sales ?

As you can imagine there was a huge uproar over GFY taking money from a site that not only owned an illegal tube site with tons of stolen content but that also included stolen owned by Playboy and Playboy owned properties. So here is Mike South and his friend’s response.

We are proud to announce the formation of a new webmaster resource board, www.gofuckgfy.com

When asked why a new board was needed board co-founder Mike South had this to say:

“Last week gofuckyourself.com decided to slap adult webmasters across the face by accepting advertising from and skinning their site with ads from a company that runs tube sites that steal adult content. At that point I intentionally got myself banned for life by calling them what they are, sell outs and scumbags.

I wasn’t alone, many of GFY’s top posters and most influential webmasters pulled advertising and got themselves banned as well. I looked at this situation and I told DirtyWhiteBoy that we should fuck them back by starting gofuckgofuckyourself.com. At that moment we knew it had to be done. We bought the domains and quickly got gofuckgfy.com up and running.

Truth is DirtyWhiteBoy and Nate deserve all of the credit, they worked all night to make the board look and feel familiar to GFY users, even to the point that we can restore your post count.

We want all of GFY’s participants to come join us and make this the industry’s best resource board, after all it is he posters that make a board like this successful and we welcome you all.”

Indeed gofuckgfy.com has barely been up twenty four hours and has already attracted such luminaries as Dean Capture and Gonzo and is already over 100 posts and growing by the minute.

Reading the rules on the board kind of sums up the atmosphere. The rules are “Use common sense”.

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