Wednesday, November 1st, 2000

Rob Spallone Moving Back

I hear that Rob Spallone and his wife are bored out of their minds in Florida and plan to move back to Los Angeles.

David Sturman's General Video of America West holds its big open house in San Francisco this weekend.

Houston, Kevin Blatt Eat Breakfast

I call Kevin Blatt Wednesday afternoon.

A female voice answers: "Kevin Blatt's phone."

Luke: "Kevin Blatt please."

Female: "Just a moment."

Kevin comes on: "Hello."

Luke: "It's Luke. Who was the chick?"

Kevin: "Only the biggest porn star in the world."

Luke: "Houston?"

Kevin: "Yep."

Luke: "Where are you?"

Kevin: "At her house."

Houston: "He's slumming it."

Luke: "I thought you guys hated each other."

Kevin: "No. Come on, it's all press.

"Yes we did have a falling out but we're such good friends Luke, it's been a good test. We've worked through our differences."

Luke: "I thought Houston wrote to me about your receding hairline and bad breath?"

Kevin: "You're funny dude. She's not San Diego Party Girl."

Houston: "Tell him that tomorrow night I will be on Colin's Sleazy Friends with Brett Michaels [from the band Poison]."

Kevin partied at the Sunset Room Tuesday night with Wicked contract girl Alexa Rae and other porn stars.

Houston went trick or treating around her neighborhood, dressed as a witch.

She just got her belly button pierced and it's still sore and swollen.

Houston: "I'm so cool. I'm so hip."

Luke: "That would be so funny to open up your door and there's Houston."

Houston: "Trick or treat."

Kevin: "Sometimes it would be funnier than at other times, I'll tell you that much."

Houston: "One home said, I'm sorry but we only have enough candy left for the kids."

Kevin: "I stepped into Gene Ross's office yesterday afternoon to give him a hug. And he was so frantic on his last day, I felt sorry for him. He was packing up all his stuff and going. But he's excited about where he's going. I like Gene. It's the end of an era."

Diallers Comeback

David Knell (Dave@netdialers.com) writes on his site: The adult internet entertainment industry in the US is currently coming under fire from the FTC, who have recently launched cases against a couple of significant players. The first of these is Verity International, who provided a Madagascar termination for use with diallers. This route cost users $3.99/minute to connect to adult content, and had been running for some time, firstly with the calls being routed through (and billed by) AT&T, and then by Sprint. Towards the end of September, Verity began to bill for the calls itself, via Integretel, who are a major player in telephone billing in the US. By the second week in October, the FTC had successfully persuaded a court to freeze their assets, on the grounds that their billing was illegal as a) the calls didn't go to Madagascar, but to the UK, and b) that, under US law, the people being billed had no obligation to pay Verity for the services received.

Was this action surprising? Personally, I don't think it was, and I'm surprised that it was so long in coming. Billing users at $3.99/min to download porn from the internet is certain to result in a large number of users having large bills - the average bill sent out by Verity was $220, according to the FTC - which, in turn, leads to large numbers of complaints which, inevitably, results in the authorities taking action.

More recently, the FTC have let fly at RJB Telecom. Their main complaint against RJB appears to be that they have fraudulently debited people's credit cards - people who had "never heard of RJB Telecom" were finding RJB bills on their credit card statements. Now, we know full well that: there is a large amount of credit card fraud perpetrated against webmasters -

people who sign up and then deny all knowledge when the bill arrives;

that there is a large amount of credit card fraud on the internet in general, from people using stolen or invented credit card numbers:

this isn't just an adult industry problem; that credit cards are inherently insecure - just flicking through recent receipts, they all carry the card number and expiry date, which are all that's needed for small-value purchases.

RJB's use of diallers is also part of the FTC's complaint, although this is on a rather smaller scale than their credit card problems. Again, the complaints relate to calls to Madagascar, but, this time, during a period when the route was being billed by AT&T. Users complained about receiving charges on their telephone bills which they'd not authorised - maybe this is true, but AT&T are hardly likely to be in cahoots with RJB to bill users for telephone calls which were never made. Nonetheless, AT&T have refunded 28.6% of the revenues billed as a result of consumer complaints.

What does all this tell us? Well, the following conclusions might reasonably be drawn:

If you overcharge for something, people will complain.

If you don't tell people how much something costs, and then bill them, they'll complain.

Credit card fraud on the internet is a problem which may threaten your business, possibly through no fault of your own.

So - should you offer surfers a dialler? We believe that you should, if they're from Europe, where we use legitimate domestic premium rate (1-900) numbers and comply with regulations issued by bodies whose role is just to regulate that industry. You can probably offer US surfers a dialler, provided they're not being charged a fortune: our UK route, for example, will be billed to them at 10c/min if they're on an AT&T calling plan, or 11c/min on MCI, and still pays an average of about 9c/min back to you. You should ensure that the dialler you're using requires them to agree that they are over 18, and that they pay the phone bill, or have permission from the responsible party. And don't forget to ensure that the dialler tells them how much the call is likely to cost.

Poor Craig Vasiloff

I was sitting here feeling sorry for myself, when I started thinking about others who have it worse. What about poor Craig Vasiloff, my former boss?

He had these big ideas for magazines and internet sites. He made a deal and created Fantasticonline.com, my sponsor since early 1999 to the present. Then he got into a dispute with Fantastic in March of this year and went elsewhere with his ideas.

He eventually found a money man in Rich Botto of RJB Telcom and they put out an awesomely professional handsomely bound mens magazine (non porn) called Razor (www.razormagazine.com). Now RJB's in big trouble. So where does this leave Craig and Razor?

Craig writes on Netpond: "RB and all at RJBTelcom are the most ethical people I have ever had the good fortune to do business with. Let's cut the sideline hypothesis and allow RB et al to deal with this efficiently, professionally and with clarity."

FTC Crackdown Cuts Into Luke's Pocket

Now I'm mad. The Federal Trade Commission can crack down on porners all its wants, but now they're hurting me. I've been writing a widely read and intellectually stimulating column of porn star gossip for the prestigious journal of thought www.strokemag.com.

I just found out that my column has been discontinued thanks to the FTC filing charges against Strokemag.com's owner Ian K. Eisenberg.

My friends, I believe that we live in the final days. Pray that our flight not be on the Sabbath.

Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, wouldst that thou had listened to me, oh ye who crucified the prophets.

With the Great Day of Judgment upon us, it is imperative that the Gospel of Luke go to all the porn world. Every outlet possible (not busted by the FTC that pays reliably) should hire me.

Yes brothers and sisters, I am now open to taking my column elsewhere. You can hire Luke's writing for a dollar a word, one thousand word minimum. Email Luke

A nice steady monetary flow into my pocket will allow me to lose all distractions of tawdry temporal matters, and more properly devote myself to the things of heaven.

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. CYBERSPACE.COM, LLC, FRENCH DREAMS, COTO SETTLEMENT, ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING VENTURES, LLC, OLYMPIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC., IAN EISENBERG, and CHRIS HEBARD, Defendants.

DEFENDANTS

5. Defendant Cyberspace.com, LLC, is a limited liability company formed in Delaware. Cyberspace.com transacts or has transacted business in the Western District of Washington.

6. Defendant French Dreams is an owner of defendant Electronic Publishing Ventures, LLC. French Dreams transacts or has transacted business in the Western District of Washington.

7. Defendant Coto Settlement, a Cook Island Trust, is an owner of defendant Electronic Publishing Ventures, LLC. Coto Settlement transacts or has transacted business in the Western District of Washington.

8. Defendant Electronic Publishing Ventures, LLC, ("EPV") is a limited liability company formed in Delaware. EPV owns Cyberspace.com. EPV transacts or has transacted business in the Western District of Washington.

9. Defendant Olympic Telecommunications, Inc. is a corporation formed in Delaware, with offices at 2722 Eastlake Avenue, Seattle, Washington. Olympic Telecommunications transacts or has transacted business in the Western District of Washington.

10. Defendant Ian Eisenberg is the President of defendant Olympic Telecommunications, Inc., and is a principal of defendant French Dreams. At all times material to this complaint, acting alone or in concert with others, he has formulated, directed, controlled, or participated in the acts and practices set forth in this complaint. He transacts or has transacted business in the Western District of Washington.

11. Defendant Chris Hebard is a principal of defendant Coto Settlement. At all times material to this complaint, acting alone or in concert with others, he has formulated, directed, controlled, or participated in the acts and practices set forth in this complaint. He transacts or has transacted business in the Western District of Washington.

COMMERCE

12. At all times material hereto, defendants have been engaged in the business of offering for sale, selling, and billing for, Internet-related services, including access to the Internet and other products, in or affecting commerce, as "commerce" is defined in Section 4 of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 44. DEFENDANTS' BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

13. Since at least January 1999, defendants have sold, via the U.S. mail, access to the Internet and other Internet-related services ("Internet service") to consumers and small businesses (collectively, "consumers"). Defendants charge consumers $19.95 or $29.95 per month for their Internet service. Defendants arrange for these charges to appear on consumers' local telephone bills.

14. Defendants mail checks for $3.50, and an invoice-like form attached to the check, to consumers throughout the country. Any consumer who deposits or cashes defendants' checks is automatically signed up by defendants for their Internet service. Defendants than charge consumers $19.95 or $29.95 per month.

15. Defendants' check and the invoice-like form represent that defendants have a prior or ongoing business relationship with the recipient of the mailing. The face of the check includes the consumer's name, and next to the "RE," the consumer's telephone number. The detachable invoice-like form includes numerous categories, two of which are "Account Number" and "Invoice Number." The face of the invoice-like form includes, under "Description", the letters "ISP-SUB." Nothing on the face of the check or the invoice-like form alerts the consumer that depositing or cashing the check signs the consumer up for defendants' Internet service at $19.95 or $29.95, plus taxes.

16. Many consumers process defendants' checks as they do all other checks they receive, and do not know that they are signing up for Internet access at a monthly fee.

17. Defendants claim that they send those who deposit or cash their check a compact disc ("CD") with software for using the Internet service. However, because many consumers do not know they have been signed up for Internet service, they have no recollection of receiving the CD.

18. At some point, consumers discover that defendants have signed them up for defendants' Internet service and are charging them monthly. In many instances, because of the unexpected placement of defendants' charges on their local telephone bills, many consumers discover they have inadvertently paid the charges for many months despite the fact that they never used defendants' Internet service.

19. When consumers do notice the charges, they contact defendant Olympic Telecommunications, whose telephone number often appears on their telephone bill next to the charge from defendant Cyberspace, to complain that the monthly charges are unauthorized. In many instances, a customer service representative from defendant Olympic refers the caller to defendant Cyberspace. However, the caller is often unable to reach defendant Cyberspace by telephone or otherwise to find out about the unauthorized charge. When they do reach defendant Cyberspace, consumers learn, usually for the first time, that they have been signed up for defendants' Internet service at a monthly charge of $19.95 or $29.95, plus taxes.

20. Defendants' policy is that consumers can cancel the Internet service at any time. However, consumers experience numerous difficulties in trying to cancel their account. Consumers try to cancel via defendants' automatic cancellation telephone system, where, in many instances, they experience difficulty and are unable to cancel. In other instances, defendants promise to cancel the account for the future, yet defendants' charges continue to appear on customers' subsequent telephone bills.

21. Defendants' policy is to provide a full refund if a subscriber cancels the account within 30 days of depositing or cashing the check. However, consumers are unable to cancel within the 30-day full refund period because defendants' charges first arrive well after the 30-day period has elapsed. Even when consumers are able to cancel within the 30-day period, in many instances defendants do not provide a full refund.

COUNT ONE

23. In numerous instances, defendants have represented, expressly or by implication, that consumers who receive defendants' charges on a bill are legally obligated to pay for those charges.

24. In truth and in fact, in numerous instances, consumers have not agreed to be charged and are not legally obligated to pay defendants' charges.

COUNT TWO

26. In numerous instances, defendants have represented, expressly or by implication, to consumers that defendants' solicitation check is a refund, rebate, receivable, or other payment for services based on a prior or ongoing business relationship.

27. In truth and in fact, the solicitation check is not a refund, rebate, receivable, or other payment for services based on a prior or ongoing business relationship; rather, it is a check which, when cashed or deposited, defendants use to initiate a business relationship by signing up the consumer for defendants' Internet service billed monthly on the consumer's local telephone bill.

COUNT THREE

29. In numerous instances, defendants have represented, expressly or by implication, that consumers who receive defendants' solicitation check for $3.50 may deposit or cash the check.

30. In truth and in fact, defendants have failed to disclose clearly and conspicuously the material conditions associated with depositing or cashing defendants' solicitation check, including, but not limited to, the conditions that upon depositing or cashing the check, defendants: (a) will sign up the consumer for defendants' Internet service; and (b) will place a monthly charge on the consumer's telephone bill for defendants' Internet service.

Gore Chastises Porn Industry On One Hand But Counts Campaign Cash With Other

From the 10/23/00 Insight magazine: With GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush narrowly taking the lead again in the topsy-turvy opinion polls, you would think that Vice President Al Gore would be careful not to spurn the backing of any voters, especially super-rich ones able to promote his candidacy to millions of people. But there is such a group - the nation's pornographers.

They don't fit into Gore's family-values vision of an America safe for family, home, apple pie and God. That's the public stance. And on the eve of the Democratic convention the vice president finally scotched an election fund-raiser from being held at Hugh Hefner's legendary Playboy Mansion.

In September, Gore aides were less than enthusiastic when the vice president was endorsed by luminaries from the Internet adult- entertainment industry who were gathered in New Orleans for a trade bash sponsored by firms operating the Web sites Kara's Adult Playground and XXX Password. Gore representatives insist that the adult-entertainment folks are much mistaken if they think the vice president looks upon them any more favorably than the Republicans. That's in public.

In private, operators of several X-rated Internet sites have been promoting Gore's candidacy among features offering Teen-age Girls and We've Got What You Want. "That's nothing to do with us," says the Gore camp.

But while Democratic chiefs have given the thumbs down to the thumbs up from the adult-entertainment world, they have been pocketing campaign donations quietly from one of America's most infamous adult-shop owners. Denver-based Edward Wedelstedt, who runs more than 70 sex stores nationwide, has contributed more than $10,000 to Gore and the Democrats since 1996. One of his sex shops in Texas was raided last month by federal authorities.

Not much cash for a big porn honcho, you might say. True, but in most cases he gave the maximum allowed under election laws and, further, the Democrats have not returned any of the donations. Wedelstedt isn't alone among porn-industry figures in donating cash to the Democrats. Chicago businessman James Levin, who owns a string of strip clubs, has given $2,000 to Gore. He's also twice slept in the White House. "This really is a hypocrisy for Gore to be talking about cleaning up the entertainment industry in one breath and accepting their support in another," says Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill.

Smackdown On Porn

JonBoy writes on Netpond: Working with my accountant and Attorney we have always routinely placed liens on many of our company owned properties as a form of protecting assets from liability from lawsuites, etc, etc We have been doing this for years, and one of the primary banks we deal with is "Bank of America" mainly because we run many millions of dollars through them and maintain serveral large accounts with them as well. Well.....today I gets a Call from a "Bank of America" bigshot who informs me that "Bank of America no longer has an appetite or interest to loan moneies to parties whose principle source of repayment would be drawn from the adult industry." Maybe I'm Paranoid, but it appears someone somewhere has definately put the "word" out on our industry.

From AP: RJB Telcom of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sued along with its principals for offering a free "viewer" or "dialer" program to access free adult material. The government alleges that without consumers' knowledge, the program disconnected users' computers from their own Internet providers and made an international call--typically to the Caribbean--to another Internet provider. Without their knowledge, consumers racked up hefty long-distance charges, the government alleged. The company and its executives also are accused of billing credit-card holders for services that consumers say they never used.

Harley Rain

Danimal writes: Hey Luke, I've been scouring the web to find any information on big bood sensation Harley Rain. Who is this girl? She looks fantastic and looks like she enjoys a good clean nasty f---. Can you reach out to all your Lukeamanics and get some juice on her?

FTC Charges Overseas Firm With Illegal Billing in Connection with Provision of Adult "Videotext" Services

FTC Press Release: The Federal Trade Commission has charged Verity International, Ltd. (VIL) and its principals with misusing the international telephone billing system to charge consumers for "videotext" services -- Internet-based "adult" entertainment -- that the consumers never purchased or authorized. Through the scheme, thousands of consumers have been billed an average of nearly $250 apiece for videotext services that they did not even know had been accessed through their phone lines. The charges for VIL's videotext services were represented as international telephone calls to Madagascar, an island nation off the east coast of Africa. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has issued a temporary restraining order halting the alleged law violations and freezing the defendants' assets.

The FTC's lawsuit stems from a dramatic influx of complaints against VIL that were received since September 18, 2000, through its Consumer Response Center (CRC) and logged in Consumer Sentinel, a database used by law enforcers around the world.

"The Commission's toll-free help line really empowers consumers," Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Jodie Bernstein said. "When so many consumers call about one issue in such a short period of time, we not only take notice, we take action." Consumer fraud complaints to the help line, 1-877-FTC-HELP, are entered into Consumer Sentinel.

The FTC's rapid-response investigation revealed that charges on consumers' phone lines were being initiated by "dialer" software downloaded from teaser "adult" web sites. Many line subscribers have no idea why they are receiving bills for these charges. Others have discovered that a minor in their household -- or another person who did not have the line subscriber's authorization -- accessed the Web sites and downloaded the VIL dialer software.

The dialer program allowed users to access the adult content without any means of verifying that the user was the line subscriber, or was authorized by the line subscriber to incur charges on the line for such videotext services. Once the dialer software was downloaded, it disconnected a consumer's computer modem from his usual Internet service provider, dialed an international phone number to Madagascar and reconnected the consumer's modem to the Internet from some overseas location, opening at an adult web site. Line subscribers -- the consumers responsible to pay phone charges on the telephone lines -- then began incurring charges on their phone lines for the remote connection to the Internet at the rate of $3.99 per minute.

In its complaint, the FTC alleges that although VIL's bills deceptively represented that the calls reconnecting consumers modems to the Internet terminated in Madagascar, in fact they were "short-stopped" in London or some other location. Thus, line subscribers were charged the rates to Madagascar at $3.99 per minute, compared to about $.08 per minute to London.

According to the Commission's complaint, VIL, an off-shore corporation; Integretel, Inc. of San Jose, California; eBillit, a subsidiary of Integretel, located in San Jose, California; and Robert Green and Marilyn Shein, both citizens of the United Kingdom, violated the FTC Act by:

Misrepresenting that because a line subscriber's telephone was used to access videotext services, the line subscriber is legally obligated to pay for those services, whether or not the line subscriber actually accessed such services;

Billing and attempting to collect from line subscribers whose telephone lines may have been used to access videotext services, but who did not themselves access such services or authorize anyone else to do so;

and Misrepresenting that line subscribers owed money for a remote connection to the Internet through Madagascar, when in fact the connection was through a location with a much lower per-minute rate.

Integretel, a service bureau and billing aggregator, through its subsidiary eBillit, sent more than 67,000 invoices to consumers during the second week of September 2000. Another 44,000 bills were sent out the following week, the Commission contends.

Line subscribers who tried contacting VIL through its toll-free number found that it was nearly impossible to reach a customer service representative. Those who did reach a representative were not given an opportunity to dispute the charges or explain why they thought the billing was in error. In fact, Integretel representatives falsely insisted that, regardless of the explanation, line subscribers are responsible for the charges for videotext accessed over their telephone lines.

In all, the FTC received nearly 600 consumer complaints about VIL in just a matter of days, beginning September 18, 2000, resulting in the staff's investigation. Through the complaint announced today, the Commission is seeking injunctive and other ancillary relief, including consumer redress, disgorgement and restitution to prevent and remedy the violations alleged. This may include refunding money that consumers paid to the company and its principals and disgorgement of ill-gotten gains, along with any additional relief a court deems proper.

Kira Eggers Gossip

Yankel writes: She is dating the basplayer, Evil Jared from American band Bloodhoundgang, you know the song 'the bad touch' where they sing about the discovery channel and mammals. They are dating and she has been touring with him. Last they were seen in germany to a big award show there. they hooked up in Denmark when a tabloid did a meet and greet.The rumour says that she looked down his pants backstage at the concert in Denmark, and said 'this is good , i' ll take it!!' Someone took a picture of it, and it is currently on the cover of a danish tabloid. I think the picture is inside.

She was also the runner up for a PAGE 3 contest. Do you know what that is? It is the newspaper the Sun in England, the readers voted and she was second. out of six girls.

Ohhh, by the way, she used to date a famous boxer and a songwriter from the danish band aqua.You dont know them im sure. it is in a another tabloid, that she is best pals with his other ex girlfriend, and they show a picture where they are hugging and fondling eachothers boobies at this release party event.

Katja Kean is by the way doing very well in mainstream sitcoms, and she looks better than ever..I saw a picture of her from a magazine ( with clothes on, what a shame!! ) She is also modeling now in clothes also!! Damn. No more porn. Too damn bad, the only good one Denamrk had to offer your industry!! I hate that!

Terrors From The Clit 2

David Aaron Clark writes on RAME: When I saw little half-Mexi stripperthing Felony become f---toy to Nacho Vidal and Adrianna Sage in PLEASE 7, I knew she had a submissive side, but I never thought the snotty little tease would throw herself body and soul into a gangbang like she does in my esteemable colleague Slain Wayne's new opus, TERRORS FROM THE CLIT 2. Now this is what "nasty" is about -- a post-jailbait, droolable f---doll we haven't been overexposed to, doing a bunch of stuff we're actually surprised to see her do -- and getting to see her look kinda surprised she's doing it, too!

Brazil 19 Videos

David Clark writes on RAME: A few of the BRAZIL NINETEENS have come out in the states under other names thanks to mishandling by evil scuwwad (and my former "employer") John T. Bone, as he initially made a deal for rights to the series, then overlooked the follow-up responsibilities -- i.e., actually paying for the damn things.

Hopefully they will find a better North American licensor -- the girls in these tapes are great. At least two absolute heartbreakers in every box, of the 15 or so I screened. As for the filmmaking, it is NOT on the Buttman, etc, level. Sometimes hits the Anabolic level. Typical un-American attitude towards capturing every messy drop of a closing facial, however. But as I say, the girls are great! and often photographed in nice, opening tease sequences.

Goddess Writes On Sex Videos

Here's an excerpt: I asked Luke F-rd, adult industry Internet gossip columnist at www.l-keford.com, who he thought was the most well known actor and actress of all time, and he named John Holmes and Linda Lovelace. He then went on to add this, "'Couples videos' are largely a myth that the porn industry likes to trot out to feel better about itself. Pornography is overwhelmingly used by alone men. Women count for nothing as far as dollars spent on porn. Women commenting on porn is like women commenting on the NFL, or men commenting on interior design." Ladies, make sure you send all your opinions directly to Mr. Ford at luke@lukeisback.com

I respectfully disagree with the last part of Luke’s statement. I think women know exactly what they like in vids, the same way we know exactly what we like in bed. Sometimes it's hard to find the right video when there are so many of them on the market. Women shouldn’t be intimidated by the fact that the business is aimed at men. There are a lot of good videos out there, but you might have to wade through a lot of guck to find them, but that’s the point of writing this column.

Tony Testa

Meni writes: Luke, my point with Tony was, hellooooo I'm Porn News Daily. Give me, Kev, You, whomever, the same story about the shoot, not just Gene. I knew about the shoot, I had the McKayla banner up on index.html for 4 days leading up to it, I promoted the shoot. I didn't watch the shoot, so a story about how it went would have been nice. Thats all I was saying. As for pics of Tony dumping, sure, content is king. is Tonyvision.com taken? I like the kid, he has spunk, on his chin, hee hee.

Tony replies: All I can tell from all this is that meni likes to see his name on the web. As far as porn news daily goes, its more like porn news monthly. the only time the page changes is when a chick holds up a new "f--- meni" sign. I also didn't write any stories about the seymore shoot, all I did was give thanks to the ppl in it. if he is running a "porn news" site, perhaps he should be like a real reporter and get the interview instead of crying. its ok meni, you can be king pimp in NEW HAMPSHIRE, I'll just keep chillin' in socal.. have fun this winter, I be thinking of you when I am on the beach and you are shoveling your ass off, bahahahahahahaha!!!!

Porners Pumpkin Patch

Halloweener writes: I made the mistake of taking my niece and nephew trick or treating in the Porn Valley last night. Just look at what vulgarity they were exposed to! Disgusting!

Luke F-rd Live

I did my first show with James DiGiorgio as my cohost and Jesus as my copilot. Guests included Meni (from PornNewsDaily.com) first off, then Jim Gunn, Quasarman from Quasarmanrants.com (34 mins in) and Brad Shaw. Let me know what you think. Email Luke I think this show is better suited to the general interests of my readers than the more internet centered previous shows with Lee Noga. Webmaster topics do dominate the second hour of tonight's show.

Chris writes: Luke, The show sucked. You need to format it better. I really have no idea who a lot of the porn producers etc that you have on your show. And when someone talks about them for 30 minutes it just wastes my time. You should split the 2 hours and have a co host for each hour or something. I dont think you will keep listeners this way. Unless you do something with the format.. but I also feel you will have more webmasters logged in than porn producers. Also, on E channel previews for the Linda Lovelace Story, they show your interview with them.

Meni writes: I think JimmyD is a natural, you two girls hit it off great. I think I added greatly to the show. hee hee

Goddess writes: I listened to your radio show with JimmyD this morning and he was a great co-host, but it would be kinda cool if ya rotated between several people. Now that he's not employed by AVN, why not give Gene a call and see if he'd be available one night a week? (But NOT on gym night!!) And what about Mike? And Curious? And Meni? And Rumdar?

Greg Geelan writes on YNOTmasters.com about the Mike Jones and the RJBT busts: I think the most important thing to take out of these two events is to realize that the proverbial s--- has finally hit the fan - and the new president hasn't even been sworn in yet! While the two events are completely unrelated, the writing is on the wall - government, whether big or small, is finally starting to investigate us and to MOVE on those investigations. That means that if you don't have your s--- together, you better do it damn fast. For the small minority of you who are engaging in illicit practices - get out of child porn, bestiality, celebrity content, spamming, credit card and dialer fraud, and misrepresenting what's on your websites NOW.

On Netpond, net porners are scared by the RJBT bust. Serge writes: I see interesting pattern developing: 1) XPICS was the first one nailed by FTC 2) Seth Warshawsky is having encounters with FBI and IRS 3) Crescent Publishing is under FTC investigation 4) RB is the latest victim

What [do] ALL of the above have in common? only ONE thing: they were (or percieved to be in Seth's case) the BIGGEST, Numero UNO sites on the adult Internet. IF RB falls, I see clear Ron [Levi] to be next and as Stalin's right hand man Beria used to say: "Give us a person and we'll find something to charge him with."

Ari writes: Luke, I was watching MSNBC and I saw an interesting segment on credit cards. It discussed how people are uncomfortable giving their credit card number out over the internet. Companies like RJB Telcom are the reason why! Anyway, some credit card issuers have come up with the following solution, to be available to cardholders soon: If you want to make a purchase with a credit card online or in a suspicious situation, you can get a new, unique credit card number that will be linked to your regular credit card number. Here's the catch: The new, unique credit card number can only be used ONCE. For example, if I wanted to try the "free sample" at RJB Telcom, I could use the unique number and be assured that I would only be charged the $2.95 fee. Any other attempts to charge the card would automatically be denied. In the future, if I wanted to continue doing business with RJB, I would simply give them my regular credit card number. This service is expected to be available soon, either for a percentage fee, flat fee, or free depending upon the card and your level of card (classic, gold, platinum, etc.) So in the end, the credit card companies are going to beat unethical online people at their game.

Hungarian Jewish Pimp Seeks Seance With Reuben Sturman

Luke, Chris English here again. Nikos (HJP to his mates) would like to know if you could set him up for a parley with your séance master. Fresh out of the schmutter business, he would like some tips not that he needs many, from Reuben on how to be a better pimp but says my old chum Chaim can weigh in if Reuben is booked. I don't suppose there's any joy on that version of windows 98 se in Yiddish yet?

Oh! I almost forgot. Here is Hungarian Jewish Chicky No. 2 "Nikolet Csizek". Nikos, unlike Jim South is a very conscientious pimp. The complimentary fellatio to chunky gunky orgasm which was graciuosly accepted after casting, closed the deal and made sure that her services will be exploited to the full in the next of Sin City's ASSQUEST.

Nikos informs me she also makes a mean Apple Strudel and Chicken Soup but doesn't think much of her Pretzels. So if TBJP can up my budget enough, not least of which to pay for Nikos's daily bottle of Jaegermeister, I will buy a bigger washing machine and see if she will accept my proposal to make an honest woman out of her. In upcoming shoots for ASSQUESTS if you like I could bung you still video frames to post here from my casting sessions, complimentary BJs and all and the l-keford.com community can vote for which juicy tarts they think should take the shmucks up the toucus and other licentious suggestions. And remember NIKOS is the grand master pimp extraordinare. With his help I can make it happen.

Nikolet Nikolet

What's The Deal With Mike South?

R. Kleinman writes: I am the other documentary maker involved in the Nightmoves shoot, and prior to this episode I had absolutely no connection to the adult film industry nor had I ever heard of Mr. Mike South. However, after learning of the accusations Mr. South has made against my colleague, I would be remiss not to weigh in.

First off, no footage was ever taken without express oral permission. Since we were in Tampa precisely to tape face-to-face interviews, it would have been utterly pointless for it to be otherwise.

Second, my colleague is a reputable film maker who is the named editor of record for a legitimate feature film currently running in theaters. The fact that "Mr. South" was unable connect this person with "Mr. Scorbick" is actually rather laughable given that, as Mr. South should well know, the porn industry is understandably reliant on the use of pseudonyms. In other words, it's almost difficult not to titter at Mr. South's alarmingly non-deductive thought process on this particular point. I trust that he displays greater acumen in other aspects of his life.

Third, the use of varying microphone covers (everything from the BBC to a mouse-ears silhouette) was done both transparently and as an artistic element of the movie we were producing. When asked about the microphone covers, we were always forthright and truthful. If Mr. South was confused by the mouse ears, hammer and sickle, BBC or CNN symbols, I apologize that we inadvertently created a situation which proved to be so puzzling for him.

Finally, my colleague is an ethical professional who plays by the rules. As such, we were welcomed into the Nightmoves event with open arms and treated with kindness and respect. Mr. South's hostility was an aberration. Perhaps he is merely upset we never sought to interview him?

Documentaries My Ass

Mike South replies: OK Luke just to clear this up, let me go on record here and suggest that I HOPE these two morons release thier "documentary" as I suspect they will have major problems in doing so, from no maodel or material releases to the use of trademarks without permission. It should also be noted here that George Martin of GM Video OWNS the rights to that show, anything they release had better have his written permission or he too could decide to seek relief.

Ok Im done with these two morons I have better stuff to do, you guys go back to your rooms in mommies house and write some more stuff. In the meantime I have been working on a REAL mainstream documentary by what may turn out to be an academy award winner...we will know after this years nominations and awards.

For more info on this film they can check www.justmelvin.com. This is not the one I'm on this is the directors first and it is amazing, very brutal and honest. It is slated to run on HBO in Jan 2001. The one I am involved with (and in, so far anyway) is slated for Jan 2002 on HBO. See ya Luke...now run something interesting...

Whatever Happened To?

I know it's a long list, but does anyone know what ever happened to the following porn stars:

* Krista Lane

FAQ@Rame replies: She retired from the business, went back to private life and faded into obscurity.

* Nikki Charm

She retired from the business, went back to private life and faded into obscurity... and then came back briefly.

* Honey Wilder