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Taylor Von Bailey
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Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 1:31AM
It seems that a lot of JM titles never get reviewed or are very late so I was curious. I always like to do a little research and gather some information before I grab a movie so I find it a little frustrating to never have any reviews for JM Productions. I'll do it if there's no willing reviewers? I understand a lot of their movies are terrible, trash and so on. I just hope that they can be reviewed and critiqued a little sooner. Title in mind...Fucked Up Facials. Maybe I'm just whining about nothing...probably so I'm sorry. It's ok but check out the site it's pretty good. I just typed it in and there's tons of hotties there. Wow, so it is fake cum...it looks just like a bukkake so I think I dig it!
moodyblues
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Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 6:12AM
I thought that a few years ago there was a kerfuffle with the owner of JM posting here and that is why their titles are not reviewed.
Taylor Von Bailey
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Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 10:27AM
Thank you...but what's a kerfuffle?
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Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 11:05AM
We do not list JM movies on our site due to the behavior of the owner (his unprofessionalism extends well beyond anything he posted on this site.)
hollywood woody
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Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 1:50PM
Hey you should meet their PR, and I use the term loosely, PR guy.
Bashing, mean spirited, pushing everyone else down so you appear larger is a way of life over there.
Here, let me help you with a review of all their movies.
We degraded some women and we call it porn. The more degradation the better. Yes, most people are offended, but we don't care how much damage we do to the industry or to ourselves or the women we employ, We're JM!
BTW, when they planted easter eggs in their movies, containing questionable material, and failed to tell the distributors, who were responsible for shipping out to the stores, was kind of the last straw.
Edited by - hollywood woody on 4/11/2008 1:51:05 PM
 
Ramsey
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Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 2:27PM
You may not agree with the movies JM is making but you should defend their right to make them!
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Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 2:35PM
Ramsey, why would anyone spend 2 seconds defending them? Did they help defend Five Star who was put out of business for selling their movies? No. JM won their case by disassociating themselves with their own movies. They won't even defend their product.
Edited by - Steph on 4/11/2008 2:36:29 PM
Ramsey
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Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 2:45PM
I agree with you that they're cowards when it comes to defending their own products. I mean if you have the balls to make the kind of movies they make then they should also have the balls to stand behind them no matter what!
mindee
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717 Posts
10/06
Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 5:10PM
While I agree with the idea that JM has the right to make their videos and I support their right to make them, most any JM video I have ever watched makes me feel like I've been mugged.
Edited by - mindee on 4/11/2008 5:10:50 PM
jrsl76
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Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 5:59PM
I have tried to watch several of their videos and find them ridiculous. I watched an installment of Tough Love and once you get past the domestic abuse angle, it's ridiculously silly. I don't find the American Bukkake or Gokkun videos erotic at all. I like Brandon Iron's stuff he distributes through them and an occasional offshoot title here and there, but otherwise I'm just not interested.
hollywood woody
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Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 6:07PM
They didn't and don't.
I wouldn't stand up for them for 1 second.
degrading women is something I don't support.
they are a huge tumor on the ass of this business, which I have told Jeff on several occasions.
Edited by - hollywood woody on 4/11/2008 6:10:05 PM
mindee
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Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 10:51PM
I agree with you about their videos, and I'm very much NOT into the domestic abuse. Now that I've said that, there is one video that is a very guilty pleasure for me. It's AB-12, with Holly Landers. I'm not sure exactly what does it for me, but when I really want to get off solo, I get that one out, crank up my eroscillator, and explode...and explode & explode.
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Posted - Apr 12 2008 : 12:13AM
I enjoyed some of their Liquid Gold series. They were friendly and fun movies, shot almost like BTS, with no violence or degradation.
I'm sorry to hear that they behaved like assholes on other occasions.
jrsl76
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Posted - Apr 12 2008 : 6:55AM
Oh, I'm not into the domestic abuse angle either, but it intrigued me enough to view it, same as I was intrigued enough to view one installment each of Gokkun, Bukkake and Gag Factor. I didn't like any of them. I've seen an installement of Young And Anal a long time ago and that was alright.
ma meeshka
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Posted - Apr 12 2008 : 8:17AM
because they're shit.
 
threesomebody
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Posted - Apr 12 2008 : 8:29AM
I like the Hellfire Sex, Girlvert & Tough Love series, although they earlier installments were much better. I also like some of the Y&A volumes and some of the Violation Of... movies. Come on, guys. JM can be fun!
Edited by - threesomebody on 4/12/2008 8:30:20 AM
mindee
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Posted - Apr 12 2008 : 7:42PM
I've never seen Gokkun,as I mentioned I have seen and do like AB-12, I saw 1 Gag Factor and 1 Irritable Bowel Syndrome video and that was about enough for me.
nateglass
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12/05
Posted - Apr 12 2008 : 11:27PM
The Girlvert series is my favorite continuing series in all of porn. I don't like EVERY JM title, but there isn't a studio out there that I like EVERY title they make, and hell I work for 2 studios, so that tells you something.
Ya know what...if the same number of people that hate on Jeff, would have turned that hatred on Leisure Time, FutureWorks, Maverick, Caballero and Sunshine Films, then we wouldn't have all been undersold by cheap ripoff comps, stores would still take New Releases and we wouldn't all be watching our profits go to shit. But instead of calling out the people that are TRULY destroying our business, they call out Jeff Steward and Rob Black all the while turning a blind eye to people like Leisure Time. Jeff may be an asshole, you may hate his movies, but to the absolute best of my knowledge the man has principles, he doesn't whore his product out and he seems to be doing ok for himself. For as long as I've known Jeff and Sandy they have been nothing but great to me. Now if someone from Five Star wants to go on record and say that JM left 'em hanging, I'd be interested in hearing that. Jeff was represented by Louis Sirkin, and I don't think there's anyone in this industry I have more respect for than Louis. So you're telling me that Louis advised his client to leave 5star high-n-dry and not give a shit about them? I find that hard to believe.
Jeff doesn't smile through his teeth at you, he's real, some people don't like those with abrasive personalities but at least he's not fake.
All that being said...I have a ton of respect for you too Howie...you got me that pic with Jenna...and you always did straight up honest business with me when I was a buyer. If you wanna help me put together a list of those that are tumors in this industry, I'd like to ask you to tell your distributors to stop pushing bullshit like FutureWorks at the expense of all of us New Release companies. Tell them they are helping spread tumors like Leisure Time and Maverick, because I believe that there is no bigger a cancer than those guys.
BlackSix All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 12:41AM
Come on, the Lesbian Bukake series is so stupid, it is an insult to the viewer's intelligence.
I don't mind the early Hellfire movies but pretty much everything else I've ever seen from JM, including Gilvert, is definitively shitty porn.
Edited by - BlackSix on 4/13/2008 12:42:39 AM
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 12:42AM
JM Productions much like Elegant Angel, Evil Angel and Coast To Coast Pictures as well as Vivid, Wicked, Pleasure Productions, Filmco, Red Light District and many many more porn studios have basically done the same types of entertainment for years and years now.....the reason these companies are so talked about , is because they keep putting out bullshit fake hardcore stuff. Just how many different versions of Adam & Eve ( straight sex, Boy-Girl ) can you make ??? :( Im so pissed off and frustrated to the point of watching modern pornography, its making me wanna just watch mainstream romantic love movies :)
If JM Productions really wants to get back into the world of making good adult videos and movies, then they should first start with their choice of directors, producers, writers and yes pornstars!!!! I dont have time to cover every detail, but the two most annoying factors about JM is: 1) Lesbian Bukkake and 2) American Bukkake and even Liquid Gold....
Heres what needs to be changed :)
Lesbian Bukkake Improvement
1) NO CAMERAS FLASHING
2) NO FAKE LESBIAN SCREAMING, LAUGHING AMATEUR SILLY HOUR
3) NO MORE MASTURBATION THAT TAKES FOREVER WITH FAKE SQUIRTING
INSTEAD...REPLACE ALL OF THAT WITH:
1) PERFECT CLEAR DVD HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO/AUDIO
2) REAL LESBIAN SEX, WITH LOTS OF STRAP-ON DILDO FUCKING, ANAL BEADS, BABY OIL AND
USE MORE OBJECTS LIKE FUNNELS AND TUBES FOR COLLECTING THE LESBIAN PUSSY SQUIRT
3) MAKE THE PORNSTAR WOMEN REALLY WANT TO HAVE HOT LESBO ALL-GIRL PUSSY/ASSHOLE SEX WITH LOTS OF STRAP ON FUCKING AND REAL PUSSY CLIMAX SQUIRTING AND GODS SAKES...PLEASE LET THE GIRLS DO GROUP ORGY SQUIRTS , NOT JUST 1 OR 2 GIRLS AT THE SAME TIME AND MAKE THE WOMEN ACTUALLY DRINK THE PUSSY SQUIRT JUICES DOWN!!!! NOT GET WET AND THATS IT. NO NO NO , GET IT RIGHT :)
American Bukkake Improvement:
EVERYTHING I MENTIONED BEFORE , ALL CLEAR VIDEO / AUDIO / NO CAMERAS FLASHING
LOTS OF CUMSHOTS ON THE GIRLS FACE AND TITS AND ASSSHOLES AND PUSSYS AND THE GIRL HAS TO DRINK ALL THAT CUM DOWN A FUNNEL TUBE...NO FAKE CUM ON FACE AND THATS IT..NO NO NO NO :( CHANGE ALL THAT , MAKE IT BETTER!!! MAKE THE GIRLS REALLY ACTUALLY DRINK SEMEN DOWN THEIR THROATS :) AND NO SPITTING
Liquid Gold Improvement:
1) ONCE AGAIN, NO CAMERAS FLASHING
2) INSTEAD OF SOLO GIRLS PISSING, LETS SEE THE PORNSTAR WOMEN ACTUALLY PISS ALL OVER EACH OTHER IN THE FACE, TITS, ASSHOLES AND PUSSYS AND LETS HAVE THE GIRLS REALLY DRINK ALL THAT PISS DOWN THEIR THROATS, OR BETTER YET :) HAVE A NEW WATERSPORTS MOVIE BASED ON THIS :) THE GIRLS PISS INTO ANOTHER GIRLS PUSSY, THEN ANOTHER GIRL HAS TO DRINK ALL THAT PISS FROM THAT GIRLS PUSSY , THEN SPIT THE PISS INTO ANOTHER GIRLS PUSSY . IT SHOULD BE LIKE PISS INTO PUSSY, DRINK FROM PUSSY, SPIT INTO ANOTHER GIRLS PUSSY AGAIN, THEN ANOTHER GIRL DRINKS IT UP AND SPITS IT ...OVER AND OVER AND OVER UNTIL ALL THE GIRLS WET PUSSYS HAVE HAD WET YELLOW PISS ALL OVER AND DRANK OUT OF :)
Lets see if JM Productions can change their format and start making erotic hardcore porn thats really believable ...THE ONLY REAL GOOD PORN IS ONE THAT STIMULATES THE VIEWER..YOU KNOW?? REALLY TURNS US ON ?? :) no more bad x-rated crappy entertainment dog and pony show...its time to make NASTY PORN AGAIN, that everyone can enjoy :) and them better reviews on ADULT DVD TALK :)
xy
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 1:02AM
deactivated means go away, not sign up again.
Edited by - Steph on 4/13/2008 3:06:22 PM
7UP
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 1:09AM
No what Jeff Stewart has done is not make jaw dropping cinema or pants dropping porn either in the last few years :)
He should either get on Adult DVD Talk . com and read my suggestions or quit the job of making adult videos...cause the idiot sucks big time and hes lost touch with whats really good porn vs cheap predictable smut that passes for entertainment value but has no artistic , erotic or sexual creativity anymore :(
think about it :)
ma meeshka
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 2:39AM
alright, those movies are good, but the majority of their stuff is totally shit. they're the opposite of evil angel, whose stuff is mostly really good.
MFF
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 3:01AM
their Butt Licking Anal Whores series can be really hot, although I could live with about 98% less Khan Tusion intrusion. there's one scene (in Volume 5?) where one of the girls' friends joins in too, VERY HOT. also, not sure it's them or just similarly distributed, but the two Arch Enemies releases are also pretty good.
OneLouder
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 3:46AM
+1
 
Bornyo
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 4:13AM
No other studio/distributor/producer/director/performer would be subjected to such abuse at ADT except JM.
It reminds me of cockroaches. I'd like to see Jeff get reactivated here to watch you people run for cover.
BlackSix All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 4:38AM
Bornyo, are you Jeff's fair haired boy?
I've said Jules Jordan is overrated many times on here: his tease is good but his sex scenes are formulaic and uninspired, especially when he is in the sex scene, and I was never warned by any moderator for those criticisms. Brandon Iron, Red Light and John Strong have all come in for some harsh criticism on this forum and I've yet to see the moderators step in on it as long as it stayed on course.

Edited by - BlackSix on 4/13/2008 4:40:48 AM
Edited by - BlackSix on 4/13/2008 5:58:28 AM

OneLouder
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 6:23AM
Wot? Someone with a Johnny Cash man-crush and self proclaimed (non) "Deactivated" status is calling people cockroaches? Ok...
Bornyo
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 8:09AM
Hehe... that's rich.
nateglass
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 11:12AM
Why don't you ask Louis Sirkin and Jennifer Kinsley, the 2 best First Amendment attorneys this industry has. They defended Jeff, they defended Rob Black, and they are getting ready to defend Evil Angel. So if JM is so indefensible, then ask Tricia why John is going to use Louis representation.
The answer is that Louis is the best in the business, and I'm sure he would have something to say about the "leave 'em high and dry" stance that some in this industry take, and what you claim they did to 5 Star.
Of course, Louis being Louis, he'd say it much more tactful than I, and leave us all with a renewed sense of real patriotism, cuz that's the kinda badass mofo that he is.
Draxxx
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 12:30PM
I never really gave much thought to JM titles. I'm not all surprised that their movies would get put down here because some of you find fault with everything. I used to really like their WHITE TRASH WHORE series in the beginning. The main reason I don't buy or rent any new installments of the series is because they just haven't had girls starring in it that I want to see. I don't watch much of their stuff at all because they don't seem to have themes or girls I'm interested in seeing. But I can say the same thing about plenty of other studios.
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 2:16PM
Re, Bornyo:
It's not boy, it's bwah ... If you're gonna sling remarks, at least get the dialect right.
skronker
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 2:47PM
Jim Powers always has hilarous concepts. They just get old fast. Most JM stuff just seems to be about shock value. It doesn't get me roused. Once in a while, there's a real surprise. "The Animal," with Chelsie Rae, qualifies.
Edited by - skronker on 4/13/2008 2:48:06 PM
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 3:04PM
nateglass - Did you follow JM's case? Their argument was the govt had no proof it was their product. My point is simply that is not a defense of the first amendment or a defense of their right to produce what they produce. I don't care which lawyers anyone hires. The end result is JM disowned their product and Five Star is out of business for selling that product.
Our not listing of JM product has nothing to do with that. Your buddy Jeff Steward, aside from being an all around asshole, said his explicit goal was to put us out of business (eating garbage was his exact phrase.) We put a lot of work into this site - it's not going to go towards money in his pocket.
We also don't list Leisure Time and Nymph pictures product. And provide a space where consumers can help each other avoid crappy product.
You say that as if JM, the producers of Donkey Punch, don't deserve it. JM has spent countless hours attacking myself and this site. Cockroaches my ass. Mister big man on the internet would never say the shit he's said to mine or Drew's face.
sickgirl21
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 3:09PM
JM is awesome because its really insane shit, like i'll pull out a JM flick like the violation series and play it for my friends, we love it! its funny and there is some whackable shit in it. it is porn afterall. It just seems that certain companies and certain girls are discussed way too much on here, there are so many girls doing porn now that there is always someone new and hot to talk about, it doesnt have to be the same girl same type of girl same porn company over and over again. And it seems if you say somthing a moderator doesnt like or have an opinion about a girl that the mods dont like you get dectivated. quit being nazis and review JM!!! its only porn for gods sake!
 
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 3:17PM
sickgirl, i suggest you read the forum etiquette or you and both your accounts can go away. any deactivations in this thread are because the posters were already deactivated in the past. as i've already made clear - JM reviews will not be posted on this site, so there's no point encouraging people to write them.
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 3:27PM
+1 Steph!!
jayo All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 3:46PM
A right to make a movie does not infer an obligation on anyone else to support the product.
bono-ONE All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 3:59PM
Very true.
Flash All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 4:50PM
No I don't have to. There is a BIG difference between defending Evil Angel and defending JM Productions. JM Productions wouldn't even defend themselves, why should I defend their crap.
nateglass
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 5:21PM
Well, I feel pretty certain that Louis Sirkin would have gladly taken this thing as far as needed to defend his client and the product. The fact that the government left a hole open for them to take should not reflect poorly on Jeff, Louis or Jennifer. Louis attends the AEE every year, why don't you ask him about this. What you are apparently suggesting is that even when offered a chance to avoid further litigation and expense, Jeff should have continued to fight a fight that was already won. Look, not every obscenity trial can be all dramatic and vindicating like The People Vs. Larry Flynt. I personally was charged with pandering obscenity in Dallas, TX. We went to trial and won because we made the vice cop look like a douchebag that had no idea what he was doing. The movie I was charged with selling was a Max Hardcore video. I didn't really care what the jury truly thought about the movie, I'm sure they hated it, but they didn't think it was right to prosecute a porn clerk for selling a movie in a porn store. I'm just glad I didn't go to jail for a year, and I wasn't even the one footing the expense for the trial, which would have made me even more eager for any loophole or way to get out of the charges. I guess by your reasoning I should have not accepted the Not Guilty verdict until I knew that Max Hardcore would be okay to sell in Dallas.
That statement alone makes me happy to be a member here at ADT. We can agree to disagree about Jeff's character, but I think we agree to agree about how crappy Leisure Time product is, and how damaging it is to consumers and the industry as a whole. :)
I thought Donkey Punch was pretty funny. As did a lot of people I worked with in retail...both male and female. It's porn, not theatre. I like a little offensive material now and then. And I will betcha dollars to donuts that Jeff would be more than happy to engage just about anyone verbally. This site bashes JM as evidenced by this thread, that's the great thing about forums, there's plenty of bashing to go around, it's a forum after all, a place where everyone can voice their opinion.
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 5:44PM
Its my understanding that Jeff offered Five Star money to help them, but they chose to plea....I offered help to Five Star by giving them 100 day terms only to get burned by them just shutting down one day with no notice....to add insult to injury they accepted my last package I sent to them with COD terms, then they cancelled the check and stole my product, no way to treat someone helping you out. In my eyes Five Star are no choir boys.....
Taylor Von Bailey
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Posted - Apr 14 2008 : 1:24AM
Thanks for the answer. I always thought they were a bunch of pricks over there and their stuff is very extreme and over the top. It peaked my interest though, I don't know just my human curiousity always is active with beautiful women being degraded. I don't wish it upon them, I hope they enjoy it but I doubt it. I think Brandon Iron is a great director and will come up with some good stuff there. I just wish I could read reviews so I can judge for myself if it would be worth my time. Very good explanation of why you wouldn't want anything to do with that company over here. I appreciate it.
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Posted - Apr 14 2008 : 3:12AM
have you not read the numerous threads bashing Vivid?
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Posted - Apr 14 2008 : 6:48AM
Executives that work for Vivid do at least have the option of being able to defend themselves here.
That said I try to stay out of the ADT/Steph & Drew vs. XPT/Jeff shit slinging for two reasons. One, being a member of both forums it would be hypocritical of me to say that either one are a piece of shit. Two, the whole concept of two adult entertainment internet forums going tooth and nail at each other seems somewhat ridiculous. It reminds me of a porn/internet version of Used Cars.
moodyblues
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Posted - Apr 14 2008 : 7:39AM
They also didn't pay their affiliates their last monies owed or even send out an email that the program was closing down. I think they took the plea deal out of panic, there was a news story last year where the owner of 5 star bashed FSC and some other companies saying that they did not offer him help.
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Let's be clear that we have done very little shit slinging. I try to keep my answer as simple as we don't list their product. But anyone saying that I should help that guy make money obviously has no idea how he has behaved.
Nate - I'm not saying Jeff should have handled his case any differently. Just that he's not some kind of free speech hero as some like to portray him. And his behavior is the reason so many will stand behind John Stagliano and not Jeff Steward.
Jules, yes Five Star left many of us hanging on the financial front. But I do not think JM offered any help until it was too late.
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Posted - Apr 14 2008 : 10:41AM
Was fivestar forced to close for financial reasons, or was it part of their plea?
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Posted - Apr 14 2008 : 11:54AM
I think it was a little bit of both. The trial ruined them financially. Had the business not been found guilty I doubt they could have continued even if they wanted to. I also think that at that point in the whole ordeal they just might have not wanted to continue. It's not like they were getting filthy rich selling DVDs over the internet. The financial burden is one thing but the daily stress over two year's time dealing with lawyers, pretrial motions, investigators, the FBI and the very real possibility that they could end up in a Federal penitentiary surely has to take its toll on someone.
Put yourself in the shoes of the owners and employees of Five Star. The government tried to force people like Ethan into a position where he was essentially testifying against Chris and Ken. From what I can tell it was Ethan's testimony that was critical in setting up the opportunity to make a deal where the charges against the two owners would be dropped. In exchange for the charges being dropped (which made it so Ken and Chris wouldn't have to do jail time) they agreed that if the business was ultimately found guilty the FiveStarDVD.com domain name would be forfeited.
[edited to correct Ethan's name]
Edited by - Drew Black on 4/14/2008 12:33:23 PM
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Posted - Apr 14 2008 : 1:00PM
I don't understand how JM claims that the govt. has no proof
that it is their product whem their name is right on the box. Isn't that like somebody getting ecoli from Mcdonald's
who then claim not to have nothing to do with big mac's?
aba1
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Posted - Apr 14 2008 : 1:20PM
I dont know anything about what hppnd with Five Star nor am I in to JM type porn.
Having said that, it seems in furthering objectivity, I have to point out that Steph does not acknowledge that Jeff offered any help (whether it was late or not) to Five Star until prompted by Jules jordan. I just think it puts it in better context when JJ points out that Five Star were not exactly 'saints" in the matter.
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