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What I find interesting is the lack of interaction between management and stakeholders in this issue. Especially all the off shore activity involved. If this was anyone else, the whole business would be up their ass with hot pokers. This is either the end of an era....not just for the pond, but a business model, a whole way of making a living on the net and an ethic that is perhaps as unsustainable as prohibition and the depression. Or, its a blip on the radar and these trusted and seemingly savvy individuals are playing high stakes poker with an end game in their sights and all the affiliates will get paid what they are owed with a bonus and all will be well, because that is what it will take to save reputations and a business. Both are extreme outcomes and it might play out somewhere in between feast and famine, but personally I can't see that. I think its a curiosity with casualties at best. But in any case its a heads up that its a new game we are all playing and its time to get it right for porn, the next generation. That is why I think it is worth the discussion.