Friday, February 9th, 2001

AVN Licenses Its Content To Paysites

Adult Video News does something which I should be doing - licensing its content to paysites.

Here are the details: "The Licensor agrees to license the following Products, all of which it owns and/or distributes, to the Licensee:

1. AVN Daily Adult & World News

2. Inside Adult (including goldstein)

3. AVN Video/DVD Reviews

4. Search capabilities of products 1-3"

XXX says: "The developer of the package is a Juliet Lowerie, whose company is named Organics. She is also listed as a representative of the licensing company, teddy communications, inc. She's very tied into avn, keeping her offices in the same building, while doing web development work for them and also the likes of i-gallery and some other heavy hitters. In speaking with her, I found her to be very sharp on what works in the adult web business with a wonderful personality. The asking price is $500 a month for the entire package, more for larger sites."

Bestiality - Returning To Our Roots

JM writes on Netpond: I think Bestiality Is cool, it is a great way for people to show their deep interpersonal relationships with their animals! To many a love for an animal is equivalent to love to a human. Who are we to tell them that is wrong. Lastly, let us not forget that we in some way all animals here on Earth. All of us evolved from the same matters, so who are you to tell someone is wrong or unjust for digging a little deeper into their roots!

Check out Yahoo.com's extensive Bestiality section. I'm amazed that a mainstream portal would have a bestiality section.

Babenet - Scumbags Par Excellence

Please read through the following articles and tell me if you do not agree that Babenet aka GoHip aka Netbroadcaster and its principles Andy Garoni, Nolan Quan, Jack Gallagher, Robert Gould, Sanger Robinson and Justin Hirsch aren't about the biggest scumbags on the internet.

And last I checked, it was Babenet servers that hosted AVN's massive online presence.

Frank writes: Babenet and NetBroadcaster, GoHip, AlchemyFx and others are all the same people. Andy Garoni, Nolan Quan, Robert Gould, Sanger Robinson, Justin Hirsch. Porn guys in their latest attempt in a legitimate company. All porn traffic gets redirected to NetBroadcaster. Please take a look into this. I hope they don't get away with murder again.

Mutt writes on Netpond: what's your point about NetBroadcaster.com Luke? They can do whatever they want with their porn traffic. Lots of porn companies at the end of their attempts to get a surfer to buy porn send them to non-adult sites. Looks like they ripped off the guys from VoyeurDorm's idea though. If they went public or brought in investors based on false claims about where all that traffic came from then they would be looking for trouble.

Nunya writes: The company that owns VoyeurDorm has a very similar web venture to NetBroadcaster.com. I can't remember the name of the site but if you go to VoyeurDorm and then leave eventually it will pop a console [Trafficco.com] with that site in it. Streaming non-adult videos.

Luke says: Go to netbroadcaster.com and use its search function, it is the same as the search function which pops up when you try to exit Babenet.com... both keep sending you to sites like Goto.com and findwhat.com, which must be affiliated with Babenet, the pornographers.

Netbroadcaster: An Entertainment Portal with the Eyeballs, But Not the Hype

by Ben Fritz ben.fritz@digitalcoastreporter.com

Netbroadcaster doesn't have any high-profile VC backers, a 310 phone number, or even more employees than a person has fingers. What it does have, though, are numbers most sites, especially those in the entertainment space, would kill for: two million registered users, over 3.6 million unique visitors in December, according to Jupiter Media Metrix, and a balance sheet that has been in the black for nine months.

Sanger P. Robinson started Netbroadcaster with aspirations no loftier than taking advantage of an opportunity to become a Hollywood player. Two years ago, he simply saw the Internet as a way to break into the incredibly insulated Hollywood community-- and jumped on it.

It's that kind of inexpensively acquired content, along with movie and TV clips from the public domain, which made up the bulk of Netbroadcaster's initial content. But with virtually no marketing budget, it was left to what Chief Creative Officer Sean Costello admits was a "stupid film" to give Netbroadcaster a name.

Blast From The Past - March 25, 2000 Update

Mark writes Luke: A publicly-traded company just announced a merger with a company called StreamMagic, with a president named Nolan Quan. Speculation is that Quan's business needed to do a funny reverse-merger deal because they are in the porn business and can't go public any other way.

Ulmers writes on Yahoo Qsound posting board: It looks pretty solid. I'm only doing research at Network Solutions (www.networksolutions.com) and I'm able to cross reference admin. contacts and company names. It looks like Streammagic.com aka Alchemy Communications has connections with White Sands Communications, Inc. and VCA Interactive. Collectively, they run a bunch of porn sites including- MENWITHANIMALS.COM, TRANNIHARDCORE.COM, TEENCORE.COM, ADULTXXXTV.COM, VCAXPLICIT.COM, WETFACES.COM, FUC-KAVISION.COM, GAYTEENCORE.COM, ADULTNEWSSTAND.COM there's quite a few more that aren't as 'colorful' that I didn't list. People at White Sands have VCA email addresses, and people at VCA have Alchemy email addresses. It's all one big happy PORN family.

VKS writes on Yahoo: Okay, let me summarize the speculation I have been hearing for months, and then give my (long!) analysis of the deal: First, I was told that a group of investors in LA who were heavily invested in (highly profitable) porn-related internet businesses were seeking to use Qsound to leverage their way into a public offering. Apparently, every time the stock dropped near 2, they were buying, and when it rose well above, they would sell out and then use the funds to buy more stock when it dropped. I DO NOT KNOW IF THIS GROUP WAS ASSOCIATED WITH STREAMMAGIC, and I can find no list of clients at the StreamMagic site.

Second, there were rumors flying about for the past 60 days or more, that Qsound's president wanted to "spin off" the internet e-commerce business (Qcommerce) because the market did not seem to value it the same way that the market values other internet e-commerce "business to business" ventures. Now, we see a bizarre merger, in which Qsound will MORE THAN DOUBLE its outstanding shares (there are currently 26.5 million outstanding shares, with an identical quantity of shares being used to fund the "purchase" of StreamMagic, PLUS another 5 million being given as options to StreamMagic's option holders). This is a shift of control to the people who own stock in StreamMagic.

What do Qsound shareholders get? If the plan proceeds as announced, each Qsound shareholder would hold shares in THREE separate "publicly-traded" stocks:

- one is essentially Qsound itself (its non-internet 3D audio business, which was the entire company in 1997), including the license fees from stereo and hearing aid companies;

- second is the Qcommerce (e-commerce) business (including Virtual Spin which was acquired a year ago, plus the AffiliateDirect functions which Qsound's internal development project);

- third is StreamingMagic, combined with Qsound's "internet audio" software. Note that the StreamMagic investors don't get the first two stocks, which are spun off to existing Qsound shareholders only (although I assume that some key StreamMagic investors and perhaps the company itself may already hold substantial shares in Qsound). All they get is ONE-HALF of the equity they previously owned in the StreamMagic business, plus one-half equity in the Qsound "internet audio" software.

The question I have is, why would any StreamMagic shareholder want to do this deal? The only answer I can think of: they want to be a public company, and they don't think they can do it any other way. The only "legitimate" reason I can think of for shedding so much equity to get public, is that the company doesn't think the market would buy into an IPO, which brings me back to my initial suspicion that StreamMagic MIGHT be the "porn" company that was rumored to be seeking to take over Qsound earlier this year.

Historically, the stock market has resisted any effort to take any company public if it makes its money from pornography or sex. If this is the case, then there may be some doubt about the market agreeing to value the StreamMagic/Qsound merged stock at any premium. The StreamMagic site lacks any detail such as a client list, and the private company has (quite reasonably) not yet disclosed any data about its source of revenue that could help clarify the issue,

Bottom line: the idea of spinning off Qcommerce may have some "edge" since it would seem to create an opportunity for a "pure internet play" with appropriate market valuations -- though the spinoff will need to disclose its revenues and expenses, which are not currently separated from Qsound's other business units. Also, bringing back a "pure audio technology" stock for "old-time" Qsound shareholders to hold, may allow that business to focus on its technology without the recent distractions of internet business speculation, which might be a good thing.

(I have never held any shares of Qsound stock, and I do not plan to buy any stock, nor to sell it short nor trade any options. This one is way too volatile and speculative for my tastes.)

Ulmer: Streammagic.com is owned by a company called Alchemy Communications. If you go to the Network Solutions web site, and do a domain name look up for Alchemy Communications, they own a number of domains including- ADULTSEXXXMALL.COM

Luke: Here are my notes about Nolan Quan:

Following the 1986 Meese Commission, federal agents traveled to the Bible Belt to seek obscenity convictions against California pornographers like Carriere. The definition of obscenity since the Supreme Court's 1973 Miller ruling has been whether the average person, applying the standards of his community, finds the work lacks serious value and appeals to prurient interests. Rural areas tend to have more conservative values than urban ones. The feds eventually convicted 20 pornographers, sending many to jail, and collecting millions of dollars in fines.

"It's a holocaust," porn attorney John Weston told the LA Times. He accused the government of seeking to destroy "an entire genre" of entertainment.

In September 1991, a federal grand jury in Oxford, MS, indicted the owner of Vivid Video, Steven Hirsch, for Interstate Transportation of Obscenity and conspiracy to avoid taxes. In a plea bargain, Vivid forfeited $500,000 to the government, and toned down their product.

In late 1991, Russell James Hampshire, along with his company VCA and his employees Nolan Quan and Don Diekman were charged with Interstate Transportation of Obscenity. In a plea bargain, Russ served a year in jail and his company forfeited two million dollars.

Glory writes on a Yahoo message board about Stream Magic: "Who wants to invest in a company which freely associates itself with questionable characters? As previous posts pointed out, Stream Magic's management have ties (worked) in the porn industry. Maybe it's ok with the hardcore (pun intended) qsnd holders on this board but todays action should tell you what the majority of investors think about this association. I'm done with this board. Have a nice life."

Wmf writes: 3213 In the conference call Nolan was asked the following: 1. Who are SM's customers? His reply was he can't disclose them since a disclosure agreement has been signed but he named Warner Bros. 2. Another question was about who own SM? His answer was approx. 100 persons, Employees, Consultants, and some private investors.

Pete writes that QSND will get killed: It's not the porn issue I have no problem with the porn industry The problem is that QSND is misleading the shareholders If they said yesterday that they are acquiring a porn company, I would have doubled my position instead of liquidating my position The stock would probably be 10-15 dollars right now if they would have said. Hey everybody...we're buying a company that specializes in streaming porn, which I'm sure is the most highly viewed streaming content on the internet

Doodoo: The porn thing is hurting. We're down...and the merger is *supposed* to be good news. Sorry, but it looks like the shareholders are deciding for themselves...

Luke says: When I helped break the story about Noal Quan's porn background, it threatened his stock. A host of people rose up to defend Nolan but Pete writes: I didn't want to believe this crazy statement the first time I heard it I figured, just another basher making up rumors But these guys actually posted real information, real links and real articles THERE IS NO DENYING THOSE ARE TRUE check them out yourself If you just try to discredit this information without checking it out, that shows your ignorance I'm a QSND stockholder for over 1 year , but I just sold everything this morning. When this story gets out the stock will get killed I wish I would have known this before I went on the conference call yesterday Good luck to those still holding.

Vks writes Mar 21: Earlier this evening, several posts detailed evidence suggesting that StreamMagic's entire business is built around internet pornography, and that connection was not disclosed but is only very thinly disguised. As soon as these posts were made, a sudden rush of "rah-rah" posts began to appear, in an apparent effort flood the board and hide the earlier content from view (the PR people call it "Flushing the top 40").

Doodoo writes: From the research posted, it appears as though streammagic.com is owned by Alchemy Communications, a company that runs at least one porn site, and who has close ties with two other companies that are heavily involved with the porn industry. This is bad! Marketing defined is how a company views its customers, and how the customers view the company. How are the customers (and shareholders) going to view Qsound when they have a porn moniker attached to their good name? This is a marketing nightmare.

Luke says: Eventually the Qsound-Streammagic merger was abandoned.

Hey Babenet, Wanna Call Chad?

From Wired.com 4/14/00:

Now the only company left that will admit to hosting the adult smorgasbord known as Adultbuffet is Flying Crocodile, a Seattle company that hosts 60,000 adult sites. Flying Crocodile CEO Andrew Edmond said Adultbuffet isn't doing anything wrong, and said about 15-20 percent of the adult sites out there are now using dialers as an alternative payment. Dialers, he said, represent anywhere from a $60-110 million business annually. They're a natural solution to the problem of online credit card fraud.

Edmond said the adult sites receive about 80 percent of the revenue generated by the long-distance phone calls to Chad. Chad gets the other 20 percent. "In the early days we were made to look very, very, very bad," Edmond said. "We want to bring value to the industry."

Also doing its bit to bring value to the $1.8 billion industry is Babenet.com, a company based in Beverly Hills, California that owns hundreds of adult websites. Several customers have linked a dialing program, called FreeSex_live.exe, back to Babenet.

Laurie Swenson of Crookston, Minnesota, said she ended up with FreeSex_live.exe by leaving her 13-year-old son alone with the computer. She only discovered that he had downloaded the dialing software when she logged onto the Internet and found that her home page, search engine, and email signature had been hijacked by a site called GoHip.com. Another user who wished to remain anonymous said he "was cruising the curious path, you know, the 'free passwords' sites" when he ended up with GoHip all over his computer and FreeSex_live.exe in his hard drive.

GoHip.com and Babenet.com are both hosted by Alchemy Communications. Alchemy Communications once featured GoHip.com at the top of its "featured clients" page, but has since removed all traces of the company from its site. Calls to Alchemy's president, Nolan Quan, were not returned. But Robert Gould, a spokesman for Alchemy, GoHip, and Babenet, said he had never heard of the freesex_live.exe program, and kept a close eye on Babenet. "I watch what they do and how they do it," he said. "If Babenet was doing that, I would certainly have a problem."

(Editor's Note: In the original publication of this story on April 14, Nolan Quan was incorrectly identified as the president of Babenet. In fact, he is the president of Alchemy Communications. John Gallagher is the president of Babenet, according to documents filed with the California Secretary of State. Wired News regrets the error.)

What Is Hip? Not GoHip.com

From Wired.com 2/25/00:

Need a souped-up video browser for your PC? You may not want to download it from GoHip.com. According to Internet security firm Finjan Software, Internet search engine GoHip is distributing an ActiveX control download that automatically modifies several components on a user's PC -- including one that adds a GoHip signature to every piece of outgoing email.

Finjan fingered GoHip in its "malicious code alert" when a user went to the site's free video page. Basically, when a user accepts the terms of the Windows video browser download, an executable file is copied to that user's system and is executed automatically.

All of a sudden, GoHip.com becomes the user's homepage, and his email has a brand new signature that reads: "Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/."

A close look at the software agreement's fine print reveals that GoHip warns the user of the changes. But duped customers say they don't have time to read the fine print, and say they shouldn't have to.

But according to Finjan marketing director David Kroll, this is the first time a company has used ActiveX to alter personal information on someone's computer.

"I think it's pretty tacky what they did," he said. And what's more, he says, it means that other companies or vandals can do even more dangerous things with ActiveX. "You could download a Trojan that will activate ActiveX and it could deliver Back Orifice or a worm," he said.

And because ActiveX automatically slips a file in the Windows startup folder, the changes are reinstalled each time the system is started. "It would run automatically and you'd never even know it was there," Kroll said.

GoHip does not have a listed telephone number and could not be reached for comment. The Beverly Hills, California-based company fields calls to a customer service line, which directs customers to an email address at videoupdate@gohip.com.

[Editor's note: In the original version of this story published February 25, the email address was identified as "videoupdates@gohip.com," which was invalid. GoHip contacted Wired News about the error on March 14.]

Calls to Justin Hirsch, the site's contact filed with Network Solutions, reached an answering service that does not know the name of Hirsch's company and forwards his calls to a voice mail. Messages left there were not returned.

A public records search discovered that Hirsch is involved with several Internet companies, all registered at the same street address in Chatsworth, California. Among the companies is Babenet, Ltd., and under GoHip's adult category section, Babenet is the first site listed. Other companies associated with Hirsch include BigWebTools, a company that claims to be an Internet marketing firm.

A search for BigWebTools on GoHip calls up links that direct users to hard-core sex sites, many of which are based in Japan and Russia.

At the BigWebTools site, there is testimony from a "Robert Molder" of RMI Networks, who says of BigWebTools, "Calling them was the best business decision we've made since we started our company." But a spokesman from Chicago-based RMI Networks says he's never heard of BigWebTools or Robert Molder.

Babenet and BigWebTools both have the same telephone number that reaches Justin Hirsch's answering service. Calls to Alchemy Communications, the Los Angeles-based company that hosts GoHip's site, were not returned.

Alchemy lists the site at the top of its "featured clients" page. "Discover GoHip!" the site reads, "and change your life on the Web."

Exactly, says Dahl, one of GoHip's dissatisfied users. "I compliment GoHip for a fine marketing effort as I certainly know who they are. I hate them, but I know who they are," he said.

Epoch Controversy

Jeff Miller from SunupMedia.com writes on Netpond: Daniel Steinberg..... Who is it that you think you are fooling??? Your response to Luke F-rd is a joke. I thank god I saw you guys for what you really are and dropped you like a bad habit 2 1/2 years ago. How dare you come on here and spew your lies and deceipt. The people you owe money to are intelligent webmasters Dan, not old ladies whose pension fund you are ripping off. Go ahead, have your CEO threaten to sue me again. Funny how I never heard from your lawyers. Obviously your lawyers told you that they couldn't sue me for slander and liable since I had the greatest defense of all, THE TRUTH. Visa fines, PLEASE. Where was the evidence of such fines Dan? Have you ever produced the evidence to anyone? Why can't you pay people what you owe them??? Here Dan, let me help you...

1. Customer pays

2. You collect money

3. You take out your percentage

4. You pay the webmaster their percentage. Dan, can you explain to the world what is getting f---ed up between steps 3 and 4??? How is it that you cannot pay out the webmasters PERCENTAGE Dan??? It is not like they are asking to be paid 150%, or 120%, hell, they don't even get 100%.... what is going wrong between steps 3 and 4?

Anne Marie from Pussyf---files.com writes Netpond: Of course Epoch is not going to go down. Since Epoch is not paying out on millions in reserves that they no longer have any legitimate justification to withhold, and are the slowest paying payment processor in the business, and the only one that will just up and not pay for however long they feel like it, they enjoy excellent cashflow. Too bad it is not shared... 2 years, 5 months, 6 days with no payout on my reserves... Enough said...

Euro Anal Sluts #1

Patrick Riley writes on RAME: This is what happens when the London Philharmonic tries to play rap music.

EURO ANAL SLUTS #1 1998--VCA Producer/Director: John Decker Featuring: Laura Angel, Rebecca Ramada, Stephanie Silver, Wild Paula, Julie Marien, Pamela, Monika, Dolores, John Decker, J.J. Michaels, Roxanne Hall

Can you imagine? VCA, the Buick of the porn industry, trying to produce raincoater porn. Two guys, neither of whom are particularly unpleasant and one of whom is a loveable munchkin, both in Europe getting "nasty" with the usual quasi-anonymous all-from-the-same-mold Euro girls. No calling the girls names, no gapes, no peeing, no A2M, no DP's, no double cuntals, no rimming, no felching and apart from the first scene (a four way) and a g/g all scenes are one guy, one girl; and only two facials. There's even some mildly (very mildly) amusing interplay between the munchkin and Amazon Paula and in the last scene Julie actually looks pleased to see him. Maybe she was relieved that it wasn't Zenza Raggi or some similar creep. OTOH, the girls just go through the normal fake oohs and aahs the same as all these Euro girls. No passion. No interest. Not erotic. Six scenes one of which is a g/g and another doesn't include anal. Given that this was made in 1998, there are no condoms. Released in late 2000. BTW Roxanne appears but does no sex and doesn't take off her clothes.

Vivid Video Denies Interracial Sex Ban Allegation

AVN.com on Friday received the following open letter from Vivid Video.

"For Those Concerned: It has come to our attention that one Vivid video entitled "Deviant" had a box cover partially obliterated by a sticker and this has been interpreted as some kind of improper action concerning interracial sex. Any stickers on this one title were done so inadvertently and without authority and Vivid Video has no policy of doing such and will have no policy of doing such. Indeed, Vivid Video has hundreds of box covers which depict interracial sexual activity and none of these box covers will have any such activity obliterated or in any way covered by stickers or otherwise. We apologize for any misconceptions that were generated as a result of the actions concerning this one title, but clearly that does not reflect any policy on the part of this company."

Luke says: This is all very funny. For weeks, Gene Ross and I have bashed Vivid over interracial sex and the Cambria List. I received an email, purportedly from black performer Mandingo, on Thursday bashing Vivid over the Deviant box stickers. I immediately emailed it to Vivid for comment. Of course they wouldn't comment to me or Gene, instead they sent their response to their old faithful AVN.

Yesterday, Gene Ross published: "Vivid's latest release of Deviant is letting out a howl in the black community. According to distributors, the box bears a sticker which is placed quite obviously over one of the photos in an attempt to hide it. The sticker says: "Important notice - this material has been reviewed by independent experts...etc." However, removal of the sticker reveals a picture of Mr. Marcus. A chat with several distributors reveals that this wasn't a random placing of the sticker but an obvious attempt to hide Marcus' picture. True to the letter of the Cambria list, it appears that Vivid has already begun its campaign of apartheid in the industry."

Luke says: So we've all played our predictable roles. Gene and I have bashed Vivid at the least opportunity while AVN has sprung to Vivid's righteous defense.

The whole hysteria whipped up over Vivid supposedly changing its interracial policy and how we've already reacted in our predictable ways is most amusing. At least I got an unlikely interview with Vivid attorney Paul Cambria out of the mess.

I don't recall the last time I published anything positive about Vivid, or AVN for that matter.

Black Director Me Mo Nasty writes: I am outraged Vivid Video thinks they can feign ignorance about the sticker covering Mr. Marcus on their Deviant box. Are you telling me Vivid Video doesn't know what it's doing? This is just another example of the white man keeping the black man down. Let's get real. We know the 411 on Vivid. They're a racist company. Unless your some Uncle Tom nigga, no African-Americans should be working for them in front of the camera or behind it. And if youre white and work for Vivid your racist too. This s--- ain't just about Mr. Marcus and Mandingo. It's about all of us as people. It's easy to dismiss this s--- as a negro problem. Don't make that mistake. Thats what Steve Hirsh wants you to think. This s--- is about racism. I call for a boycott on Vivid Video. I support Mandingo and will be at Vivid on Monday. And if that white devil bitch Steve Hirsch thinks the LA Riots were something, you ain't seen nothing, motherf---er! No justice no peace!

Thursday, the black performer Mandingo wrote me: Mr. Ford,

I am very upset and would like to bring something very disturbing to the attention of your readers. I would appreciate it if you could post the following on your site: I am a fool. I am a fool because I believed racial unity could be achieved in the adult industry even in the face of political and puritanical adversity. But, I was wrong. Vivid Video has opened my eyes. Vivid Video's latest release, Deviant, features a disclaimer sticker on the back of its box stating that Vivid experts have deemed the tape non-offensive and educational. Non-offensive? Hardly. Educational? Indeed! Peel the sticker off and you will find that it has been strategically placed over my Negro brother, performer, Mr. Marcus. I thought this to be an unfortunate coincidence, but, upon further research, I discovered it to be true of all the Deviant boxes! Of course, you can still see the white girl he's f---ing. It is only Mr. Marcus, a BLACK MAN (shudder), that needs to be covered. How does this educate us? It tells us Vivid Video and its white-devil owner Steve Hirsh are cowardly, hateful racists. Perhaps, Steve Hirsh would do well to place a new disclaimer on Vivid Tapes. One that reads: No Niggers Allowed or--one using his colorful pet name for African American performers--No Spearchucker-f---ers Inside.

It's never been a secret to my black brothers and sisters that Vivid Video has made the Negro performer function in a subterranean manner, never allowing the Negro performer to assert his individuality. But, to act so cowardly in attempting to cover up the BLACK MAN on their boxes is beyond deplorable. It's obscene. Evil. Vivid is the worst kind of racist, a smiling devil that masks its bigoted hatred while dealing with the encumbrance of White Man's Burden, the subjugation of the Black Man. Well, this isn't the antebellum South, Mr. Hirsh. We will not lie down. We will not be bamboozled by your white-devil antics. We know what you are, and we shall overcome!

I call on my brothers and sisters to come together and file a class action lawsuit against Vivid Video owner Steve Hirsh. I am also calling a march on Vivid Video on February 12th, Lincoln's birthday, starting at 9am. Please, join us. Let yourselves be heard. There is no room for the KKK in the triple X industry. MARCH WITH US!!!

The address is: Vivid Video 15127 Califa St. Van Nuys, CA 91411

White Devils

RascalK writes: luke, aint that some bulls---.now that racist steve hirsh is trying to say he's not responsable for where stickers get placed on his video box covers.he must really believe that we are "dumb niggers".well he wont get away with his racist agenda.i will be at his building on monday to picket his "nigger hating ass".get ready motherf---er cuz we are all going to be there. knowledge

Magic writes: Vivid is just looking after its profits. I know a lot of people of both races who are turned off by interracial sex. If there are interracial scenes on a box cover I know I won't buy or rent it and I'm sure I'm not alone. Does that make me racist? I think everyone should have equal rights and equal opportunity but interracial sex is a big boner-softner for a lot of us.

Has The Hollywood Jew Stumbled Onto The Cure For Secular Jewish Power?

Chaim Amalek writes: Dear Mr. Hollywood Jew:

WHY DID YOU DRIVE YOUR PREVIOUS JEWISH WIFE INTO THE ARMS OF THE BAPTIST GOYIM?? Luke, we must investigate this process further, as it may prove to be the pilot process by which the negro can be driven into the arms of the republican party, the jews stripped of their secular power and driven into the waiting arms of the torah, and the world healed. Perhaps at that point AMALEK will be revealed to be the Messiah.

And why oh why are so-called "religious" jews like Samuel Boteach (don't give me any of this "Shmuly" crap) courting the likes of Michael Jackson? Don't we Juden have enough sexual degenerates to deal with, as Luke's guest Samantha Sterling could well appreciate? Why oh why have so many of the world's principal communist theoreticians/pornographers/pimps/billionaire fugitive financiers turned out to be Jewish? Could it be because they rejected Christ? I often encounter jews who engage in such activity who insist that they are still good jews. I never encounter any Christians who make such claims with respect to their religion. Please, MrHollywoodJew, ask your former wife, now Baptist, why she thinks this is so. Does belief in Christ serve to immunize the jew against participating in communist/porno-pimping activity, as AMALEK suspects? (Clearly orthodox Judaism has not so immunized Mrl-keford.)

PS Please post this at the top of your web site, so that it is not Lashon Horah that the eye first encounters.

PPS Off the record, this will make a great topic for you at your next lecture at the Hayden Lake compound.

Putative Marc writes: Dear MrHollywoodJew: who decides that middle america wants to see a movie called "saving silverman"? isn't that only promoting contempt for people named silverman? especially when silverman is played by a WOP pretending to be a jew.

MrHollywoodJew writes: Chaim must learn to read more carefully. My FIRST wife was Jewish and still is. My THIRD wife was a Baptist (a stripper, er, "dancer," but also very religious). In between I was married to a Catholic girl (also a dancer) who became Jewish and still is. So, you see, Chaim, not only have I NOT driven any of my significant others away from Judaism, I have led one TO it and another (my first wife) has gone from being Reform to Orthodox since we were together. She is "zehr frume." I would not be explaining all of this to the world except that Chaim is convinced that I am a self-hating Jew, which I am most emphatically NOT! Chaim and I are cut from the same mold but he just won't accept that. What faith is YOUR spouse, Chaim? Is SHE frume, too?

Please inform Rebbe Chaim that I intend to engage him in no more discussions regarding my personal life or level of religiosity, at least not this evening. I intend to go to Shabbat services at sundown then paint the town red. My magnificent intellect and wit will not be present on the keyboard to enlighten Chaim this night. Please accept my apologies.

Tell Marc I don't make these f---ing TV shows! I am NOT in the TV bidniz. I have spent my life engaged in honing and refining the fine art of strip club managing and ownership. "Hollywood Jew" is a name bestowed on me (like a knighthood) by Rebbe Chaim, the All-Knowing. It is a reflection of a personality or something, I think (anyway it made a good email name). Hell, I don't even live in El-Lay anymore. I am clear across the country from Hollywood, physically if not spiritually.

Luke, I just saw Goddess's pictures in your photo archives. Tell her I love her and wish to make her the fourth Mrs. Hollywood Jew.

A Valentine Day's Reminder

Dear Readers, This Wednesday is Valentine's Day. A day dedicated to celebrating the special loved one in our life. How will you honor your loved one this year? A box of chocolates? Too fattening. A bouquet of roses? Too fleeting. A diamond tennis bracelet? Too crass. Why not give a true gift of love that your loved one will cherish for the rest of their life?

Maya's Addiction

Patrick Riley writes on RAME: Only Bailey offers a slight, very slight interest. The plot is garbage.

MAYA'S ADDICTION 2000--VCA Producer/Director: Fred Lincoln Featuring: Maya Divine, Chloe Nichole, Bailey (2000), Adajja, Kelsey Heart, Chenin Blanc, Marty Romano, Ian Daniels, Chris Cannon, Cheyne Blanc, Eric Masterson, Evan Stone

Maya's husband, Cheyne, is addicted to sex, particularly as a peeping tom using a video camera to peep on Ian screwing Adajja in the shower. She sends him off to sex rehab, run by sex addict Evan, for 30 days. It looks like Alcoholics Anonymous with the people sitting around and confessing that they're sex addicts and recounting sex scenes from the past which we see. In the end Cheyne is cured but too well and isn't interested in Maya any more but she has needs (unlimited credit card, for one) so she returns to Evan and he tides her over with a screw. You should know that Cheyne is Chenin's real life SO, Eric is Maya's real life SO, and Marty was Chloe's real life b/f at the time. Having Cheyne screw Maya and Eric screw Bailey isn't likely to produce erotic scenes and doesn't. Marty is one of those guys who hates his skin; more tattoos than Jack Hammer. Chloe does her usual over the top eye-rolling fake orgasm act and does an anal. Kelsey is also analed. Chenin only does a g/g. Maya, Adajja, and Chenin could be guests on Jenny Jones (that's not good); Kelsey OTOH is looking OK. Chloe and Kelsey take butt cum shots; the rest are facials. Condoms throughout.

Torrid Tramps

Patrick Riley writes on RAME: Points for relatively new girls. Minus points for not the best quality girls.

TORRID TRAMPS 2000--VCA Producer/Director: Rock Gibraltar Featuring: Cassie, Autumn Haze, Senneca, Cheyanne, Rachel Moore, Rock Gibraltar, David Hardman, Herschel Savage, Pat Myne

Five sex scenes, one with each girl, with no set-up, no plot, and tepid going-though-the-motions sex. There's a tiny bit of conversation with the director who does two scenes himself--he looks like a scrawny runt. All facials except for Cheyanne where it's a tit cum shot (figures!). Cassie and Rachel do anals. All scenes use condoms. Cassie is not the one with the sister Michelle but the girl with a huge tattoo over her left tit and a badly damaged belly. In this movie, she uses the cummerbund effect to avoid shocking you but it can be seen in all its glory in University Co-Eds #27 and in MDD #171 among others. Autumn Haze is in Decadent Diva's #8 and White Panty Chronicles #15. She's also disfigured her body with tattoos and has medium droopy tits and a marginal face. Senneca is a Cree Indian from CAN with small tits and a passable face. See her in MDD #156 and U&C #84. Probably the best of the bunch. Cheyanne normally seems to appear is Anabolic stuff and she has big tits for those who like that sort of thing. Rachel Moore has her cantaloupes and is credited as Racquel Moore. She would be OK except that the cantaloupes say "sex worker".

Porn Stars On TV

Jamie Gardner writes: Dear l-keford, I'm writing books about John Holmes and Traci Lords. Marlene Willoughby, who I interviewed about John Holmes, has done a lot of TV work. After I interviewed, she sent me her resume. In addition to her mainstream movie and TV credits, she lists many x-rated movies that she acted in. Marlene's TV credits include: "Phil Collins Seriously," "Grey Area," "The Equalizer," "Robin Byrd Show," "Law & Order," "Tattingers," "Our family Honor," "The Deep Voyage," "20-20," "Cagney & Lacey," "Murder By Sex," "Help," "Nurse," "Andros Targets," "Hard Hat & Legs," "Hot Legs," "jeanne Parr Show" (CBS), "Carter Stevens After Dark," "Chauncey Howell Live At Five" (NBC), "Interlude After Midnight," "The Gloria Leonard Show," "Dialing For Dollars" (KCOP LA), "Washington D.C. News 4," "Action News" (WPIX), "Barry Farber Show," WBAI FM 99.5," "CBS News," "Tony Guida News" (ABC), "Eyewitness News DR. Joyce Brothers," and "Midnite Blue." Sharon Mitchell told me that she appeared on the TV soap opera, "Edge Of Night." This was during the period of time that Wade Nichols had a regular role on the show. Sonny Landham appeared in many x-rated movies before crossing over into mainstream movie and TV success. He made guest appearances on "Miami Vice," "The Fall Guy," and "The A-Team." Carol Connors was on "The Gong Show" and appeared in "The Woman Driver" episode of "CHiPs." The information about Sonny Landham and Carol Connors comes from the Internet Movie Data Base.

Suitcase Pimps

Mark writes: Luke, Will you start holding the annual l-keford.com Suitcase Pimps of the year? Maybe you should have a voting system to rate the biggest suitcase pimp? The winner gets a trophy of a gold plated suitcase with the words “Bitch don’t leave me, I need to eat” inscribed on it. Here are are two possible contenders. Please ask your readers to contribute to the list. I’m sure it will grow fast.

John Port – Kayla Kleevages hubby?/boyfriend ? This dude carries her luggage to her dance gigs

???? - That idiot who married Candy Apples last year, the dude wipes all the jizz off her chin after her scenes. I don’t know guys name.

Bringum Young #1

Ari writes: Bringum Young #1 Yesterday I saw Bringum Young #1. It was a very good porn, and there is a funny part near the end of one scene. The scene is a 3-way with Gauge, Mojo, and some other guy. Gauge does them all, in all different ways, and then gets rewarded with a double face bath. And at the end, she sucking both guys' cocks clean and you hear the director say, "Say, thank you for bringin 'em young!" And then Gauge says, "Thank you for bringin me home!" And then the director says, "NO!!! Say, Thank you for BRINGIN 'EM YOUNG!" And then Gauge goes "Sorry. Thank you for bringin 'em young!" LOL! No one claimed she was Harvard material....

Benefit Plan For Performers

Michael writes: Dear Mr. Ford: I am addressing this to you for two reasons, the first of which is your position as a preeminent recorder/reporter of all things to do with adult entertainment. Perhaps more importantly, I am also contacting you because of your obvious compassion for and support of those who receive less in return for their contribution than any others in the adult business--the on-camera performers.

Briefly, by way of introduction, I am a retired building construction project manager/cost estimator living in a suburb of Kansas City, Mo. With that career and most of my life behind me, I am now motivated to do something more significant, something with the potential to have a genuinely positive influence in the world.

With that said, the focus of my attention is the establishment of some sort of a broad-based health/welfare/retirement plan for adult entertainers. Before you dismiss this as something impossible to achieve at best, something totally cockamamy and the product of a muddleheaded old man with questionable motives at worst, at least give me the opportunity to suggest the bare bones of an idea as to how such a Herculean goal might be achieved.

My idea centers on but is not limited to the use of the Internet as one mechanism through which funding could be raised. One approach might be to establish an expanding ring of linked sites geared to soliciting donations from the millions of surfers on the Web each and every day. Another way might be to promote the idea (among surfers) that adult sites donating a percentage of their profits to such an entertainers' fund are the best ones to visit and subscribe to. If such a notion did take hold among large numbers of surfers, manifesting itself through vastly increased traffic to participating sites, what site owner would not be anxious to receive certification as a member of such a plan or fund. Once established as something of value, this cetification could be extended to such companies as those producing printed adult material, adult video companies, strip clubs, etc.

This adult performers' welfare plan I am suggesting would have to be set up in such a way as to be totally legitimate, above reproach. Perhaps a large accounting firm with a flawless reputation should be involved in handling the money. The operating cost of such an endeavor, at least in terms of percentage, would have to be kept extremely low. The management should be composed of people of sterling character, people who have demonstrated the highest level of ethical conduct in their past business, professional and employment activities.

Working out eligibility for benefits from such a fund might be based on the length of time a performer has been actively involved in the adult business. In such an eligibility hierarchy the type of work the performer has done--e.g. hardcore videos, softcore photo shoots, strip clubs, etc.--would also have to come into play. In other words, Sonja Smythe (from Sterling, Kansas) who did one oral scene for a ten-minute loop in 1978 would have extremely limited eligibility for benefits. At the other end of the spectrum, a longtime hardcore/softcore/stripclub performer like, say, Christy Canyon would be eligible for full benefits on every level.

I realize that to accomplish what I am proposing will require a great deal of time and effort on the part of numerous dedicated individuals. In fact it would be easy to take the attitude that something so radically utopian can never be brought into existence through any amount of effort. By the same token, as recently as the 1950s it would have been far more unrealistic to propose the kind of sexual freedom we enjoy today. This indicates to me that virtually any amount of progress is possible if people are willing to put the effort into achieving it.

What I am asking for here is help in bringing the above ideas to the attention of those involved in the adult industry, to get their opinions about what I am proposing, to generate discussion concerning the entire subject of increased benefits for adult entertainers. If there is broad support for something like I am proposing, I believe that this bodes well for at least some preliminary steps to be taken in the matter. On the other hand, lack of support will certainly indicate that further groundwork is necessary before any meaningful steps can be taken.

Rumdar Punishes Quasarman

Rumdar writes Quasarman: My Dear Quaze.. I just returned from an evening on the town and checked in with Luke.com. Much to my chagrin I read your answer to our sweet, resident Yiddisha psycho Lynne, quote: "because I know that one day without warning some scandalous allegation about me will appear there" .......Jeeeeez Quaze. You are worried about your reputation? Are you serious? Is there the possibility you may be appointed Attorney General sometime in the future? I think that is an impossibility since I believe your country of origin is the Arctic. I also must remind you that your job description is pornographer. That is only a click or two above child molester and mutual fund salesperson. So what is your problem with giving Luke a link? If you have anything to fear it would be a blast of poo poo from a tight anal shot which misses your lens and smacks you right in the retina. Then you could test your absurd theory that HIV doesn't cause Aids. Until then, either lighten up or return to the tundra to practice your failed music and stand up shtick on some lonely polar bear.

Quasarman replies: If an inbred adulterer can be President for eight years and a former cocaine addict and habitual drinker can be President for the next four I'd say there's a pretty good chance that I CAN be attorney general someday. I suppose my feelings should be hurt that you've made mention of my failed music and comedy careers except that I'M the one who has admitted to these failings without hesitiation and that is why I'm a pornographer. The "scandelous allegations" I spoke of were the kind without any basis in fact as is Luke's stock in trade. I have nothing to hide and my entire response to Ms.L-patin was facetious. Insulting my homeland of Canada won't get you very far either as I believe it to be perhaps the most backward country on the face of the earth which is why I have chosen to live in the USA. You on the other hand apparently live vicariously through Luke and his bi-polar adventures. Perhaps you are the one who should lighten up and yes, your email and my response will appear on my website. I'd be curious to know of your true identity Mr.Caped Crusader. I doubt very much if Rumdar is your given name.

Rumdar replies: Tell you what, give our boy Luke a link and I'll tell you my name and address. You see, under my cape, I have nothing to hide.

Luke Gets Mail

Guy writes: I just finished watching another couple of movies from Max Hardcore: "Max Hardcore Extreme Volumes 10 & 11". It seems to me that old Max has gotten rougher and nastier over the years, and that he treats his girls more violently as the years go by. My question is: Do you know of any girls who started to make a scene with him, but stopped in the middle because they couldn't take anymore? How much does he pay to those girls who go all the way with him? If you ask me, no amount is enough...

Becky writes: Luke, It's very sad to hear Teri's gone. She was one of the few girl's who actually enjoyed having sex unlike the plastic skanks of today. Teri will be missed.

Luke, George wrote that Raven (tall, beautiful, long-haired brunette) never did black guys. Actually, she did. Also, he should of added others who've done interracial like: Marylin Chambers (when she was very young and good-looking) Annette Haven, Sylvia Saint, Roxanne Blaze.

MrHollywoodJew writes: If Chaim gets a date with Heather Graham can I get one too? Actually, No. Rebbe Chaim says I should go for Jewish girls and Chaim is always right. Can you get me a date with Raylene? (PS: It will help you infiltrate the Hollywood/Wall Street establishment, I promise; uh huh).

Lynne writes: Quasarman seems to have confused akathisia with orgasmic delight, being that it is the latter which overtakes me when I have fond thoughts of darling Luke (whereas the mere presence of a woman in the flesh gives the dear boy the shakes...)