The article Fabian and Manwin didnt want you to read

[gonzo]

http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article109255611/Das-Porno-Imperium-Ein-Deutscher-erregt-die-Welt.html

If you use Chrome you can translate it to english.

Heres the best of it...

The loan to the Luxembourg holding was worth 362 million dollars (276 million euros). As security is the entire enterprise mesh. The subsidiary company in Cyprus is with their bank accounts, computers, and even with their office equipment to straight.

The Cypriot documents do not reveal the source of the money. But they call two more companies involved. The CB Agency Services LLC in the State of Delaware, known as a tax haven, and Cortland Capital Markets Services LLC, a financial services company in Chicago.

I smell dirty laundry!

[gonzo]

This is pretty good too and goes along with what Ive said on this board for YEARS....

How much respect the competitors the German porn mogul, but fear can be seen in the end of January, "Hard Rock Hotel" in Las Vegas. The industry exhibition "Internext" has Thylmann invited to a lecture. The room is packed. The key figures of the U.S. porn industry have come. It's a rare public appearance of Manwin leaders. On the Internet there is a video recording.

In hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans Thylmann sitting next to a laptop on the table and dangling their legs. Obviously he's Zuckerberg and others as a model. But the innocent impression is deceptive. It speaks of the wolf, and listen to the lambs.

Thylmann strikes a familiar tone. He says he wants to do away with the conspiracy theories. He was not the "bad person", as some believe. Then he tells his version of the rise. Even with 18 years he had company, was once went bankrupt, learned from it. End of the 90s he developed as a freelance programmer with two partners, a software for the porn industry: "Next-Generation Affiliate Tracking Software", or "NATS".

Thylmann was software for "ultimate insider"

Even then, established the business model works on the Manwin: porn producers offer their goods on payment sites. To attract as many customers as they give free preview galleries and videos of appetite. Any site owner can use that content in its sole discretion on their own pages. The site owners put in return a link back to porn paysite. The deal: porn producers to pay the website owner a bonus for every new subscription customers, via its link takes their payment page.

Quite anarchic creates a huge network of sites, the operators want cash up only by forwarding. They are called affiliates. Thylmanns new software "NATS" helps to measure the pay site operators, flush back which clips and which affiliates the most traffic. The software determines what the customer is selling well and what is not.

The program was a huge success. It is the standard in the online adult industry. Thylmann simultaneously learns how the industry works, because he not only sells the software, but also waits. "He was the ultimate insider," says a German porn entrepreneur.

Thylmann 2006 sold his shares in the company for a seven-figure sum, as industry insiders estimate. So he comes to his starting capital. Instead of writing programs, Fabian Thylmann now rising even into the business with the sites. He buys the German Amateursexportale My Dirty Hobby and Privatamateure and assumes apparently also loans.

[RawAlex]

There is something to be said for the rise of NATS, Manwin, and the decline of the affiliate model all at the same time.

You may draw your own conclusions!

[softball]

There is something to be said for the rise of NATS, Manwin, and the decline of the affiliate model all at the same time.

You may draw your own conclusions!

was it actually the decline of the affiliate model, or just a general decline? Affiliate marketing was/is the most expensive way to sell a product. That might also had something to do with it. It was a model carried over from bricks and mortar distributors and perhaps it hit its sell by date on the internet.
Just tossing out alternative possibilities.

[gonzo]

Sweet boy is out on bail with a new fashionable ankle bracelet and relieved of his passport.

[softball]

Sweet boy is out on bail with a new fashionable ankle bracelet and relieved of his passport.

I think the real damage is to how the company seems to want to position itself in the real world of business. The pussy is out of the bag.