Originally Posted by Robbie

Actually Roald, back in the mid 1990's we were thanking God for the Clinton administration because it didn't fuck with our free site business model.

When Bush won the election we were scared shitless. John Ashcroft (Bush's attorney general and a religious nut) was chomping at the bit to get rid of porn on the internet. And the first thing they would have targeted would have been FREE SITES. We are the ones making it available to everybody....which they would have tied to kids watching porn.

We knew then...and in fact had several get togethers with the top traffic free sites in the world at the time...that we were ONE law away from being shut down.

And of course we had the contingency plan of selling people a lifetime "membership" for $5 or whatever just to keep them coming to the site. But we knew that even with that tiny entrance fee...we would lose 95% of our traffic.

The only thing that saved us quite frankly was 9-11. The govt. turned it's attention from us to "terrorism"

But it doesn't change the fact that you, me, and Pornhub are still just ONE law away from being shut down in the U.S.

Surely that's something that you guys have discussed before? It's not as big a fear to me as it was in the late 1990's, but it's still there. I HOPE it don't happen. But I've felt for the last couple of years that with tubes and torrents putting out entire scenes for free with no real age verification...that it's going to end up destroying all of us in the end via new govt. legislation.