Adultfyi.com quotes AdultVest founder and CEO Frances Koenig as stating his company won an award from Alternative Investment News Hedge Fund Industry Association at their awards show in June. This is an excerpt from the article:

Koenig wouldn’t reveal the project to be financed, and he danced around names, saying only that I would recognize them—a coyness that, to be fair, both hedge funds and adult entertainment share.

He says he met many of them at the Alternative Investment News Hedge Fund Industry Awards last June, when AdultVest won Hedge Fund Launch of the Year. (Other honorees included the Blackstone Group and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.)

The awards show has a web domain located at http://www.iialternatives.com. However, the Contact page only lists phone numbers and emails, no physical address for the awards or company. A Whois of the domain reveals an address of 225 Park Avenue South, 10033, which is actually the address of the Port Authority in New York City along with the name of the domain owner - Institutional Investor. Below is a screencap.

On the Port Authority website, here is the page where I found their address: http://www.panynj.gov/AboutthePortAuthority/ContactInformation/. They share the same address as Alternative Investment News Hedge Fund Industry Association. Maybe someone should call the Port Authority suspicious activity line.

Here is a screenshot.

Koenig also mistakenly believes that Iporn will be a front runner in creating an application that will deliver porn to Ipods. The Adultfyi.com article states:

He sees the porn downturn as temporary and believes that technological improvements will trigger a turnaround. One example: iPorn, a start-up in AdultVest’s portfolio that is developing an application to deliver porn to the Apple iPod. “The industry’s not going anywhere,” Koenig says. “You’ve got 6 billion people on the planet,” he laughs, “and they’re all horny.”

It has already been done. If you have a Windows based PC, use Media Widget to transfer data from your PC to your Ipod, click here. If you are on a MAC, use ffmpegX to transfer porn from your MAC to your Ipod.

Ipod porn is not the next money mecca for the adult industry. Three years ago, when video Ipods came into play, many companies created ipod porn sites. The sites did not generate huge revenue.

No one invests in porn to make money. Instead, they are trying to write off expenses for financing their sex life.

Sexy Denali from Divinity 18

Divinity 18 is just one site that put up a sexy gallery of Christmas photos. - click here

At Hotmovies.com, viewers get 10 free minutes to watch the new Private movie, Dirty Santa.  Watch Santa’s hot helpers very naughty!

Penthouse Pet Sandra Shine got dressed up like a Christmas Angel.

Sandra Shine

Well known amateur nude site, Watch 4 Beauty, has a pretty model frolicking in front of a Christmas tree complete with fake snow for her to toss around during the shoot.

Elegant Angel lanyards were worn around the necks of Republican convention goers back in March at the Clark County Republican Convention. What are lanyards? They are the fabric necklaces that are attached to convention credentials at the AVN or Erotica LA events (i.e. usually they are red or black and have the name of the sponsor company printed on them).  So, all of these uptight people had a porn company name wrapped around their necks at an official Republican event. Amazingly, the staff responsible for doling out the lanyards and credentials did not notice what they were handing out; did they think that ‘Elegant Angel‘ was the name of new show on the Strip?

The media relations director for the county party had a lame explanation for what happened.

“Somebody dropped those off for us to use and they had been sitting around in a box, I guess for quite some time.”

Um, okay, sure, I believe that.

This would not be complete without a photo!

Unfortunately, I could not find a photo of one being worn  ;(

Elegant Angel just put out Greatest Sodomania Scenes Ever Vol. 3, a collection of anal scenes, featuring starring Tiffany Mynx, Nici Sterling, and Brittany O’Connell.

Links

BigWetAsses.com

Buy Greatest Sodomania Scenes Ever Vol. 3 online

Visit BrittanyOConnell.com - updated regularly!

Clark County GOP convention not sponsored by porn company

They just figured it was lingerie supplier

Christian XXX loves to brag about the popularity of his website, ChristianSingsTheBlues.com. Ryan Rayzer over at LukeFord.com compared his site, Christian’s blog, and MikeSouth.com using a site popularity tool at Compete.com. Guess who won? Lukeford.com won by far. Christian also loses versus my site and another popular photo news site, PornValleyNews.com

Kathy Willets

Kathy Willetts explains why she has not done anymore films in a post on a popular escort board. She makes valid points.

She says:

That is why “I” haven’t done any more movies!!! I’m sure I’m not alone in this thinking.

“MOST” of the producers, are bums,,,,, guys that couldn’t make it anywhere else in life, what else is left, PORN!!

They are street urchins for the most part, uneducated, broke, down on their luck, etc…

There are only a “few” who know the name of the game, the rest are just losers!!

If they were actually any good they would be working in the straight world, producing. They can get away with being a bum, by simply working in the porn world.

This is why Porn simply went to hell, they didn’t give a damn what a girl looked like, what the scene was about, where it was located and how it was shot,,,, just throw some crap out there and let’s see what sticks, and you all bought it!!

Where else on earth can you get drunk, high, and go to work and collect a paycheck??????????????

She nails it right on the head. There is absolutely no barrier to becoming a ‘director’ in porn; there is no union guild nor any sort of educational requirements (you don’t have to understand lighting, framing, or have any technical knowledge). Anyone can make an adult film, as long as they have a video camera (you can get a good one for less than $5k). It means that the market is flooded with much content, which has overflowed to the internet and is available for free, which means less money for everyone!

Here are a few comments from posters on that same thread:

“if the scene has to cut and then re-appear with a guy who jacks off for a minute+ prior to cumming, it’s pretty obvious that the woman couldn’t get the guy off and there was a problem. Either too many scenes for him that day, or more likely, he just wasn’t into her- and that’s a total turn-off. I mean hell, if I wanted to watch sex with a woman I wasn’t into, I’d have recorded my ex-wife. lol”

“One of the problem is there is way too much porn on the market and a lot of it is crap. Walk into any decent adult store and you will be overwhelmed by how many porn DVDs there are. And that is just DVDs, that is not counting internet porn. Everyone and their grandmother with a camcorder think they can make porn in the internet age.”

“If there is no chemistry between the actors or the director doesn’t know what he is doing then no amount of acrobatics is going to make it interesting for me.”
“In the “good old days”, there was one or two boy/girl, a girl/girl, a boy/girl/girl, etc.  There was variety.

Another thing… does anyone REALLY like boy/boy/girl?

I don’t know; it just seems to me that the porn industry has lost touch with it’s customer base.”

“If a director is good, he should be able to have each shot have a coherent beginning and end.”

“Besides, they are all the same, can’t they come up with something different than “take your top off and play with your tits” stuff.”

“I honestly think a lot of the guys who make these scenes are angry, don’t like women- or anyone much for that matter- and it’s more hostility than anything.”

“I do wish that more like in the earlier days of porn there was a combination of real plot development, a variety of types of scenes, and real hot sex.”

“No angry guys, no DPs, no DPP or DAP with guys rubbing their dicks together. Just dropping a nice load where the good Lord intended.”

Kathy Willetts may have started out as an escort, but I’ll bet she made more cash doing that rather than shitty films. Porn movies are used in advertising for escorting by many performers, so you can’t dislike her for saying the truth.

Links

Buy Kathy Willets movies @ Gamelink

Rent Kathy Willets movies @ SugarDVD

At the recent Webmaster Access gathering a representative from AEBN noted,“you can’t upsell if you give too much away.”

Watch the 30 minute video where porn piracy is debated, click here.

Yes, that is a fact. In 1998 when I started, the average time length of a promotional gallery video was 15 seconds. In addition, hardcore photos were censored with the genitals and breasts covered. Selling internet porn is all about the art of the tease. The DVD portion of the adult industry does not understand that at all. They think it is all about giving the strip club customer the steamiest lap dance possible in the main room, when the reality is about getting the customer aroused to the point where you can get them into the champagne room to make good money. Video production companies can be successful on the Internet, but they will have to change their tactics, by not giving away too much porn.

Jack Lawrence

Happy Birthday, Jack! And many more!!

Emily sander, aka Zoey Zane, is being portrayed as a wholesome
small time girl who was close to her family by the media. The truth
is a bit different.

Emily moved out of her parents’ home when she was 17. She then
moved in with her boyfriend. He assisted her in graduating from
high school. When she started posing nude in September, he broke up
with her. He claims she aspired to ‘choreograph music videos’ and
that was why she pursued a career as an internet porn model, in his
words ‘to get exposure’.

While it has been reported that Emily told her family about her nude
internet site on Thanksgiving, not all members of her family were made
aware. Her aunt did not find out until Emily was missing and the case
was all over the airwaves. Her grandfather, who took on the family spokesperson
role, found out when a reporter showed him a nude photo of Emily at a news
conference to discuss Emily’s disappearance.

Interestingly, Emily’s MySpace page has been ‘cleansed’:
http://www.myspace.com/theycallmeemilybitch

Israel Mireles, the man suspected of killing Emily Sander, is on the
run with his underage 16 year old girlfriend Victoria Martens. The fact
that he is also a child predator is not being mentioned at all in
media coverage of this terrible tragedy. Why is Victoria’s family not
loudly demanding her return?

Links
Police say body matches description of missing student

The behemoth Miss Kitty is holding the alt Debbie Does Dallas party this Friday. Media should not bother to attend, because the Jabba the Hut-esque Miss Kitty does not allow photos at her soirees. What a great way to hold a DVD release party.

I don’t think there is one person who works in the adult industry either online or offline who has not been financially touched in some way by the proliferation of web forums dedicated to offering links where whole porn movies or entire scenes can be downloaded for free. These forums are taking a huge bite out of profits. Should the people who own the forums be financially liable for the illegal activity taking place on their sites? Undoubtedly, yes.

Let’s take a look at one forum called ‘xxxmoviemart.com’. A whois search find that it is owned by a ‘Rick Goodpastor’ in Mt Sterling, KY. His site forum features links to goodies such as Addison Rose in ‘Teens Too Pretty For Porn’ from TTB Productions, Gang Bang Girl 36 from Anabolic, and Dyanna Lauren in ‘Bad Wives’ from Vivid.

Link to actual page

It turns out (courtesy of a Google search) that Mr. Goodpastor is likely a real person with an interest in geneology. His family lives in Mt Sterling, KY, interestingly enough, the same city where the domain is registered.

Link to actual page

Rick seems like such a nice guy. See this post where he praises a computer guy for skillfully fixing his broken PC. It appears he has left Florida and moved back to good old Kentucky, actually Mt Sterling, Kentucky to be precise, which is where the domain name, ‘xxxmoviemart.com’, is registered.

Link to actual page

He’s also a auto buff as evidenced by his activity on a forum dedicated to cars. His username is
Hotwheels’ and his lists his occupation as ‘Webmaster - Network Marketing’. He got the occupation part wrong; in reality, it should be ‘thief’. Notice that the email address ‘rick.goodpaster@gmail.com’ is the same as the one in the domain registration.

Link to actual page

What’s the point of this article? It is simply to note that the owner’s of forums where whole movies are downloaded for free can be identified with a little effort. It would not be hard to find a mailing address for this person where a Cease and Desist letter could be sent.

P.S. Weird coincidence, but I noticed a ‘Donate Food’ button on the illegal site’s forum page; its on the left side, just scroll down a bit (click for page). A link to a charity site is not something often (if ever) seen on a hardcore sex site and I find it odd. The Google search also reveal a page where a ‘Rick Goodpastor’ is photographed dropping food off at a charity called Second Harvest Food Bank (click for page). Could that Rick and the one who owns XXXMovieMart.com be the same person? Apparently, they both have strong feelings about fighting hunger.