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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
11. What’s it like dealing with J.D. Obenberger?
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J.D. is a great guy, a scholar, a gentleman, insanely knowledgeable, has great taste (he loved Montreal) and is an engaging, fun conversationalist.
But he must be a beast in the court room when he goes to trial.
When you're on the hungover from hell and you're on a seminar where he's challenging you on how you manage international 2257 compliance on what you flippantly termed "2much.net's Dynamic 2257 Record Keeping System" in the post John Ashcroft revision era without breaking the law and you already have a hard time explaining it to
yourself, he will make you cry.
It was of course the day after the infamous lipstickman FUBAR incident.
Y'see, our software customers can be both primary and secondary producers, which before the revisions was simple. After Ashcroft, and we had about 30 days to scramble a solution to keep all our platform clients compliant, it was very complicated.
Because you're both primary and secondary custodian of records, because it depends on whether the performer is from your site or from our MBase shared talent pool.
Because, in Canada and other countries, our constitution protects our right to privacy and prevents employers from sharing our private data.
Because US webmasters had the option of accepting or refusing a performer from the LiveCamNetwork MBase system whose 2257 info was blocked with a disclaimer pending a request from the DoJ or FBI.
And so on.
So I wanted to explain all this and the basics behind our performer sharing network, and it seemed (to my boondoggled mind and no doubt to everyone in the room) like irrelevant, promotional preamble, J.D. was asking "How" and "What do you mean" every half-pause I took...
Later people did tell me he seemed a little pitiless... I don't know, 2much had him for supper later and I talked to him about it and we laughed and it was no big deal. I think he was just concerned about what our company particularly was promising clients and the industry, and he's always been passionate about the ways the government seems want to nit-pick us out of business and the weaknesses we can present them...
I love J.D. J.D. loves me.
I know Mark has a great pic somewhere :P
:D