well mof, I am glad we have gotten the personal side of it out of the way, for starters.
Personally, I have no interest at the moment in rescuing anyone -- most people have no desire to be rescued either. A few companies with decent foresight -- Vivid, Wicked, you guys -- as I ALREADY mentioned -- were smart enough to see the forest and the trees and get into it when the time was right and the ROI was tops. Jenna is another one who's played it very smartly, whether on her own or with the help of her associates is irrelevant.
As for your comments regarding people running for the hills if a Meese Commission type situation occurred, funny, I remember a couple of years ago the same RJB we're talking about, spending massive money to fight the FTC, perhaps a more powerful body than Meese even. Oh, and wait, they weren't the only ones to do so.
And considering the internet side has paid my bills for some years now, of course I am biased. I've been to shoots, for internet, and what I've seen is not at all reminiscent of what I seem to read repeatedly about the video business. Then you couple that with what I see at shows, and it is some pretty sad evidence.
Yes, there are bad apples everywhere, that's not the point either.
You somehow set yourself up on the receiving end of my comments, when they weren't in any way directed at you personally, but I'll leave that alone as well, since I'm still not sure why you did it.
In any case, this discussion is over as far as I am concerned. It's a shame it turned into what it did to start with.
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