It's the "in" thing to do when your losing your ass - Sign of the times :Oh crap

Yes! Top of the world ma!



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If only AVN could have someone like AdultVest come to its rescue. Oh wait....

whats a JOKE, avn just made them self look even worse then they are, goes to show you that xbiz is doing better then them i guess

If Xbiz is worried about tarnishing reputation from this suit they wouldn't have brought this to the boards.

AVN have their heads up their asses if they think this is the way to gain webmaster support.

I'm unsubscribing from all their newsletters in protest and suggest everyone do the same.

-Ben

Anyone else get the email sent out by AVN after Sara left? It was juicy. I'd post it but deleted it a few days ago.

adult industry media will eat itself? lol

AVN would have a lot to prove to a jury to even get a little sympathy, and it'll be nothing compared to what they'd have to do in order to get the industries sympathy. The only thing I can imagine is that they are hoping for a settlement, and that it never even goes to trial.

Well I don't know what good a settlement will do them.

Considering a whole section of the industry will now refuse to ever do business with them again.

-Ben

Who told you that?

Cliff's Notes will suffice.

[QUOTE=baddog;15756177]Who told you that?



Which part? the right to work state or the trade secrets part?

I am pretty sure, unless you are an executive with the company, they can't prevent you from going to work for a competitor in California..although I could be wrong. Defining an "Executive" is another tricky situation...just cause your title has the word executive in it doesn't necessarily make you an exec under the letter of the law. Now, I'm not an attorney so my comments are just my own opinions but I really doubt AVN has any leg to stand on here. I have gone through similar circumstances with past employees and customer lists, and so-called "trade secrets" with a negative outcome for me as the company owner. What I've found over the years is that Judges tend to look at employees as the "little" guy almost without exception which generally leads to them finding in favor of the employee.

Now if were talking about "trade secrets" I think in this industry they are few and far between. Besides, you and I have been in this biz long enough to see that most of the industry was built on copying each others ideas in some form or another. But specifically to the Ad and online publishing arena I have a very hard time believing that AVN has a lock on any trade secrets that anyone with half a brain and the will to search Google can't uncover on their own. Again this is just my own opinion.

The right to work part. California is not a right to work state unless this just happened recently (last couple of months).

ahhh yes you are probably right about that...although some of the google sites say cali is a right to work state...so not sure anymore.


but that aside...my opinions on the other items still stand...I think it's an uphill battle

I was just doing some search and came upon this old thread.

Anybody know what ever happened with this?

"?Clearly AVN is trying to tarnish XBIZ?s reputation to stem the tide of its diminishing marketshare,? XBIZ counsel said. "

Xbiz's reputation is already shit, atleast for anyone who cares about .XXX.

i too am interested to hear the outcome of this case... anyone?

Hmmmmm definitely

We have XBIZ's side (from the article they published) so now we should hear AVN's side.

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Does AVN have new owners?

AVN better be able to prove it protected and treated the information as a trade secret prior to this incident.

Look at the original date of this thread. :2 cents:

California has *very* different views on this afaik.