MikeAI and BradShaw rather than throwing stones, why don't we all turn our attentions to a real industry problems and try to deal with them. We can bash each other anytime
Really dealing with these problems means money. In the past, the GIA ran into brick wall because of money issues. It was folded into the Free Speech Coalition, where it resides today. This happened because the members stopped their financial support.
The Adult Industry industry has been targeted. Lawyers are using the law in a perverse fashion to grab a share of the industry's grosses, or make them pay big money settlements for Vicarious Copyright Infringement or some other far reaching law.
Does anyone know what Vicarious Copyright Infringement mean?
It means, as it pertains to our industry, that if a site that sends traffic to an affiliate program, and that site has unlicensed photos, hence guilty of Copyright Infringement, then the affiliate program is guilty of 'Vicarious Copyright Infringement'. Even if you have no knowledge or control over that site, you're guilty.
If you read the law, the exact few paragraphs of Vicarious Copyright Infringement, you will be chilled by its verbage. It gets worse when you see what statutory damages are money wise, absolutely incredible.
The bottomline is the industry has problems. To fight these problems, support is needed from all of those in the industry. That suppport equates to money, nothing else, money!