[Rick Latona]

Ok Guys and Gals,

We’ve spent many days now discussing our ad on the various adult message boards. I won’t be going into that area today. If you want to know more you can go to GFY and/or Porno Junkies and search for Consumption Junction. Bottom line is that we got your attention.

I would however like to discuss the issue of content ownership. Mike pointed out that I discussed the issue with him but never bothered to comment on the points I made.

We have a very simple business model at Consumption Junction. We archive and distribute the fucked up things that people forward around their offices as email attachments. People have been sending each other images, videos, etc. since before the Web was born. We are a catch all that picks the best and newest ones each day and posts them on our site.

When entering the site you have to agree that if you send something to us that it is yours and you have the right to give US the right to post it. Clearly, this is a less than perfect system. So, we have put policies in place over 3 years ago that to this day haven’t changed at all.

Many hundreds of people in our industry have heard me explain this in the past. If we ever accidentally post something that is yours, you have a few options. The first thing you must do is bring it to our attention. If we knew that it was a professionally generated file and not something that amateurs created to send out to their friends, we wouldn’t have posted it.

Option 1: Ask us to take it down. This will happen immediately. We have never refused to take down a single piece of content.

Option 2: Ask for a link. We sell links on our site but we never charge someone to link their content to their site if the content was posted by accident.

Keep in mind that we receive thousands of submissions a day and post only around 30 pieces. We have a full time staff of 3 in charge of sifting through and posting the content. Accidents do happen and will continue to happen. But there are many people in our little niche business and we are the only ones that are active in the industry and making every attempt possible to create long lasting business relationships with people.

Mike, it isn’t ironic that we are now sponsors. We have traffic and we are in the business. It was the next logical step. We also create significant original content and editorials on CJ, our flagship property. CJ is a window to other content. We archive and distribute content. Many of the videos and downloads that we post have the creator’s logo and/or URL on them. We never take credit for having created content in which we didn’t create. We DO however put our URL on the content. This issue has created much debate. Clearly we have created a very viral business model by posting our URL on the content but it is only meant to show people where they can find this type of entertainment.

If anyone has an issue with what we do they can feel free to contact me directly at anytime. We have a great deal of traffic and relationships in this business and we are a better friend than enemy, any day of the week.