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Originally Posted by SteveLightspeed
For those of you who don't know, Chris was the one that salvaged Epoch when they were completely fucked up in 2000. Everyone got paid. Chris has run Epass for 7 years and it enabled alot of people to do international business and save alot of money on bank fees. Epass also saved alot of sponsors when Visa suddenly lowered the allowed chargeback limits. Without Epass, the industry would not have had such a great run like it did.
Chris is a guy with pride and integrity, and I'm sure that he will do everything possible to resolve the current situation. The guy is fucking SMART. This is a high-risk industry. Shit happens all the time. Don't give in to GFY's mob mentality, and give Chris and his crew time to work things out for everyone.
Steve Lightspeed
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I've never dealt with Epoch or Epassporte, but I did see Mallick's box office bomb "Middle Men", and I believe he did a real disservice to the adult industry, by perpetuating negative stereotypes, suggesting that his partners at Paycom/Epoch were coked out drug addicts, while he was a knight in shining armor, that the industry is in cahoots with mobsters, that he left the adult industry to return to his wife (when the reality is he never left the industry, and he and his wife divorced), and worst of all, that his partners went to jail for child porn (casting a cloud of suspicion on all involved with adult, even though it was a lie).
To try and profit by giving our industry a black eye, is not something I can condone. I am glad more people did not see Mallick's movie, which he tried to suggest was based upon true events, when in fact, it was filled with multiple fabrications and outright lies.
Getting back to the real world, this is not the first time that ePassporte dun goofed, and I strongly suspect that consequences will never be the same after this latest fiasco!
For the sake of those whom did no wrong, but are suffering as a consequence of this most recent ePassporte debacle, I sincerely hope things do get resolved.
As for Chris Mallick, I lost all respect for him after his dishonest hatchet job movie about the adult biz.
Good luck with your lawsuit against the torrent sites, Steve. I respect and applaud you for that.
Although I disagree about your assessment of Chris Mallick, I understand that you are a good person at heart who tries to support other veterans of the industry both during good times and bad times, and for that, no one can call you a fair weather friend.
ADG