If AVN hadn't behaved in their 'holier than thou' porn royalty way since the beginning of the adult internet, perhaps companies wouldn't feel so justified in LEECHING off the masses they've gathered in 1 place.
AVN claims to be a representative of the adult Internet, and yet a big portion of porn BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS stopped paying $250 for badges and 1000's of dollars for booths LONG AGO. AVN placed themselves in a position where they could rip everyone off with overpriced booths, overpriced ads, overpriced promotional opportunities when there weren't ever enough webmasters to justify the rates. Now that the shows are crowded with dickheads and empty booths, AVN is wondering why it went that way?!
Lets call a spade a spade ...
AVN is great for the "Oh my god I touched a pornstar" webmasters of this business, but I don't think there's many webmasters at Oprano who take the magazine, the company or any of its Hollywood wannabe crap seriously.
This business started splitting in 2 a couple of years ago, so lets just accept the future for what it is ... AVN has the quantity, cybernet/klixxx and the 'AVN reject' network around it has the quality & loyalty that AVN lost through bad networking.
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