In all seriousness now thats actually a good question however, IMHO its to late to even consider doing anything about it, especially given the state of the industry today.
Where to start, board whores, FHG's, traffic brokers, high payouts, the list really does go on and on.
I wrote a brief (lol) article along the same lines as the basis of your question several month ago
Here and i honestly do think as of right now that for the most part, we have done this to ourselves.
It seems the industry is riddled with nothing more than teenage kids looking to get their jollies from a slew of free porn and drug, liquor [insert any other vice or illegal activity here] at the shows which in turn, only escalates the problem further.
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I think we are going to have to wait until even more drastic changes are forced upon us by the government before we start to see anything, especially the proliferation of free porn get changed and even then, if the government does regulate 'porn' it will only drive the suppliers of the free stuff offshore.
As i say, everything mentioned above has definately become the 'norm' in the industry, especially when in the view of the general webmaster populous at the shows, hell even im guilty of playing it up.
The one good thing about this though is that when you see a group of individuals standing on a walkway oggling a group of scatily clad women, you know not to do business with them as they are the ones who only want the free porn, liqor, drugs, food etc.
I know speaking from my own experience there was only one event that both Gary and I had planned to spend our full time at and, we did, the others we just showed up invited those we wanted to speak to out to dinner and took the 'real' business away from the dregs.
Just my $0.02 on the matter i could be completely off base here [shrug]