Mike South make a post today that I think everyone should read.  Especially those in our industry, those directly effected by piracy and all those porn stars who bitch about not getting paid as much or making as many movies as before because of piracy and those tube sites.  So before you book your next job with certain people, I just want you to remember what this story says – word for word.  Because you may very well be working with the same people who are in fact stealing from everyone else.

If you book even one job with these people or have anything to do with them business wise, you are directly contributing to their stealing everyone else’s content and that means you are helping them fuck everyone else.

It Ain’t About Piracy, It’s About The Money

Back in August of 2007 a California Judge awarded 5.4 million dollars to Jules Jordan in a copyright infringement case against a company called Kaytel. The amount was substantially reduced on appeal on the grounds that Jordan had no standing to file the suit. Yesterday the ninth circuit court of appeals re-instated the original judgement. At first glance one looks at Jules and thinks good for you man. But anyone who knows the facts knows this isn’t about fighting piracy, after all Jules Jordan distributes for Brazzers, whose owners own 5 of the 5 largest tube sites in the world. Tube sites that infringe the copyrights of every single company in this business. Brazzers, in the name of Mansef Inc. is currently under federal indictment on money laundering and other charges. Additionally Brazzers is facing a civil suit from Pink Visuals in the amount of 6.75 Million dollars for…you guessed it…. copyright infringement. So when this sanctimonious little douche bag starts wrapping himself in the “I’m fighting piracy” flag, remember he is doing way more to enable it than he is to fight it. Actions speak WAY loader than words.

There is a report on Mike South that Vivid has released all of their contract girls.  I mean, well let’s be real … they only had two anyway which was Lia and AJ Bailey and rumor has it their DVD sales were beyond horrid.

The real stars like Sunny Leone, Savanna Samson, and Hanna Hilton have long ago moved on.  So really what Vivid did today doesn’t much surprise any industry insiders.  I mean what did they really lose? AJ Bailey and Lia 37?  Big whooop.  They weren’t STARS like real Vivid girls and they had no potential to ever really be big stars like so many of the Vivid girls in the past did.  Here is Fame Registry’s list of top ranked Vivid girls.  This list was last updated just the other day and look how low AJ Bailey is. She’s been a Vivid girl for well over a year now. She should have at least risen some in terms of popularity.

Here is the rumor I heard.  Steve Hirsch made his money on some big Playboy TV deal.  He personally bank a shit load of cash and since then just hasn’t really had any interest in continuing to work.  To quote an insider …. “He doesn’t really give two shits about Vivid or anything work related anymore“.   This seems to be true because they haven’t even tried to get REAL contract stars for a long time.  I mean how in the fuck do you let someone like Madelyn Marie slip through your fingers?

But just as rumors started to swirl that Vivid will close their doors all together Vivid started making ungodly amounts of money on their celeb line.  By this time they already ditched Vivid ALT all together.  They ditched Paul Thomas and then just started doing gonzo shit with B. Skow.  Then the celeb sex business really picked up for them so they kept going with that.  Then Batman XXX came out and they did extremely well with that.  AGAIN THESE ARE ALL JUST RUMORS. So the RUMOR is that they just decided to go with what is making them money hand over fist which is a celebrity line of sex tapes like the Kendra movie, a series of big budget parodies, and a few random gonzo movies here and there featuring girls they book like any other studio.  No more “contract stars” like they did in the past.

By MikeSouth
July 15th, 2010

Vivid, the company that started the contract girl craze, has released all of their contract girls.

Vivid will no longer be using contract girls.

Mike South ran an interesting story today in which he implies the owner of XBIZ took a bribe from the .XXX guy.   The full story is below.  It raises an interesting question …. when you own a powerful industry only network, can you allow you own personal views to influence your decisions?

Why is no one writing about the fact that Alec Helmy let Stewart Lawley join xbiz.net and use the “Industry-Only Network” in order to promote .xxx? Lawley is “answering questions” (See “The Man Who Would be the .xxx King) on an XBiz Industry-only network even though, several years ago, he went to an XBiz show and proudly proclaimed that he is not part of the industry.

I can tell you why. It is simply because in reality Alec Helmy supports .xxx. He supported it early on and he still does, no matter what he might say to the contrary his actions speak much louder than his words.

Helmy and I had words one afternoon years ago when .xxx was coming to a head and it wasn’t pretty. I had him screaming at me on my cell phone, I was highly amused. He was VERY pro .xxx

You see Helmy’s organization ASACP is getting $8.00 for every domain that Staurt Lawley sells.

A bribe?

I say if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…it’s a duck.

Did Helmy and XBiz sell us out….You be the judge of that.

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.

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.”