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Originally Posted by nekrom
Eros can get fucked. They've never given a shit about online till now & they can revenue raise. Especially after last years comments by Robbie Swan in "The Australian", who stated that Aussies who run websites that aren't retailers have no conscience.
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As a normal webmaster off the street I was able to ring Fiona personally back in 2001 to get free legal and industry advice in setting up online. I can only speak from personal experience that they do care about online, how can they not? It's true they have traditionally spoken more for the retail side as that has been far bigger and they used to have a lot more interaction with the retail side of things. Your guy submitting TGP gals from their basement mostly weren't aware of them and didn't really think about hitting them up back in the day but that has changed.
The Australian story was in relation to Scott PB.. Who the article described as a "highly brazen, violent psychopath". The Brisbane industry WAS known for a time to have cornered the market on beast spam. You can't really expect Swan to publically support those guys. Also it wasn't a direct quote, he was obviously trying to distance the legit guys from the seedier side, which has had a lot of publicity in the area... you know.. the heroin.. the beast porn.. the great "internet hijacking" and the spamming that all came out of Brisbane when the nascent scene was a major world player (AKA the "good times" ;), and i'm not saying Scott PB had anything to do with that, more that the press has always publicised that side of the brisbane porners.). You can't really say they don't support online porn when they're warning about the death of the industry if these new laws come in.