Re: What is the future for vintage porn?
I have to say this hate is getting kinda ridiculous. We’ve got pornosleuth misquoting me, by removing important paragraphs and adding ‘blablabla’ in the quote (therefore changing completely what I was expressing), and also insulting me personally. We’ve got abostonboy trolling every post or reply I put on this site, and denouncing me as the cause of all the problems in the porn industry. We’ve also got a lot of confusion in the multitude of accusations coming my way.
So perhaps it’s time for a reality check.
First an overview of what we do. If, like some suspicious people, you think I’m just promoting my sites please skip to the part headed ‘The collection sites’!! I just want to be transparent and take the time to explain everything.
We run four porn pay sites, with their own affiliate programs accessed through CrownAffiliates.com . Two of our four sites, RateTheseGuys.com and TheHardOrder.com, we hire models and locations and shoot and edit 100% of the content for. The other two we collect and archive public domain images we have found over the years. Our business model for the future is to get to a point where can invest and produce all our own content, but it takes time.
The collection sites.
So all the problems, accusations of immorality and theft from some people are centered around our two collection sites (I’ll assume they are otherwise happy with the 100% exclusive RateTheseGuys.com and TheHardOrder.com). So let me explain our thought process behind those sites. They will now be referred to as the collection sites.
The images used on both the collection sites are sourced from countless other message boards, forums and groups (this is all pretty obvious) and are considered public domain by us. This means that we believe the photographers of the images are either unknown, or have shared their images freely on the net which have then gone viral. If a photographer of an image contacts us and says ‘This is mine, take it off your site’, we will do so immediately.
The truth is these images are widespread and available freely with the simplest of surfing. All that we’ve done is taken the time to collect them in a certain niche, put them on a safe and stable website with photoshopping, webdesign and editorial, and charge a fee for our time to do that.
Most tube sites, which allow full length and full quality videos to be taken from pay sites and uploaded in order to build it’s own traffic and monetize that traffic, effectively steals from other porn sites. We don’t, and will never, use any content produced by another webmaster.
Now let’s tackle the hypocrisy. I don’t want to mention pay sites or affiliates by name as that would be unfair, but there are plenty others on this board who promote long standing sites which are also collections of images where the people in the images haven’t given permission. It’s actually funny when abostonboy says I should be banned. If he has such an issue with it, he should stand by his morals, research everyone else and actually boycott this board.
I totally understand why those of you who do make money promoting collection sites didn’t want to step forward and say so in the face of abostonboy, pornosleuth and conran’s foaming-at-the-mouth disagreement with those actions, why be a hero and step into a shitstorm right? I get it. But it’s still important for this point to be made, that plenty others (and some big players too) on this board promote similar collection sites right now.
I totally respect everyone’s right to have their own business model and rules. But let’s not pour hate on me, while keeping the blinkers on to what the rest are doing. And let’s put it all in perspective, those of you who don’t agree with promoting amateur collection sites⦠just don’t promote them, simples.
And one last request, please be courteous and respectful of all people whether you agree with their opinions or not.