From JimmyD’s site:
I THINK THERE MIGHT BE GOOD MONEY SELLING INTERNET CRYING TOWELS THESE DAYS
jimmyd _writes “Lately, a lot’s been written about the future of the internet, make that the future of smut on the internet. It’s evident by what’s written that the once-mighty are beginning to feel some heat. They see the future, and sometimes it looks like a homeless guy begging on a freeway offramp, and other times it looks like a government official in a dark, blue suit. Whichever one it looks like–perhaps both–it doesn’t look good.
Yep, they see the future, and it doesn’t look too rosey.
It’s been quite a rollercoaster ride for some of these webporn exploiters; and I use that term in the nicest possible way. They’ve had their ups and their downs, but mostly in the last few years, a lot of them had their ups. There have been so many ways to make money. Forget about designing a cool website with great content that would attract many visitors, and hopefully, quite a few members. No, the real money has been in less obvious offerings like the buying, selling, manipulating, redirecting, and exploiting of traffic.
Supposedly ‘free’ sites and TGPs have acted like the carnival barkers of days gone by. They promise the world if you’ll only pass through this particular door… this portal… this gateway to the fullfillment of your wildest, kinkiest, sickest, most outrageous and kinky fantasies. Of course, they don’t actually deliver on the promises, again much like yesteryear’s barkers, but once they get you to click through on the promise of sexual paradise their job is done and they only have to hold their hands out for their lords and masters–the big trafficteers–to share a bit of the swag.
There have also been more than a few of these www-dot-webmoguls who simply found that the net has been a great place to pick pockets. Common thieves you might wonder? Actually, yes. Induce some poor slob to plunk down his credit card number–again with those carvival barker’s promises–and simply charge… and charge… and charge the stupid fuck’s card and line your pockets with electronic booty. Nice scam, huh?
But now the crying towels are being distributed. Oh woe is us! The pathetic mourn of internet thieves, hucksters, flim-flam artists, con men and women, grifters, and pick-pockets fills the air. I’m not saying everyone out there using the web to make a few bucks, maybe a lot of bucks, is a thief or a con. But you know what? There’s more than a few of them who have been just that. And to them, and they know who they are, I’d simply like to say, from the simply warmest part of my heart, “Fuck you assholes! You deserve it and more.”
I could give a shit less what kind of problems the scumbags amongst you are suddenly encountering. Eat your shit and be grateful for it, cuz that’s more than a some of you deserve. More than a few of you started out by stealing content from those who worked hard to produce it. To you I say, “Fuck you! You deserve it!” Some of you scammed a bunch of dumb fucks into giving you their credit cards–you fucked them good–and now the credit card companies don’t trust any of you. To you credit card fraudsters and thieves, I say “Fuck you! You deserve it!” And then there’s those of you who spammed incessantly, made false promises, redirected people to anywhere but where they wanted to go, and while doing so you collected some nice toll charges. To you I say, “Fuck you! You deserve it!”
You see, I’ve never had much sympathy for scumbags and the truth of the matter is that there’s more than a few scumbags among you. Certainly not all of you, but certainly a healthy number of you. And because of you–the rotten apples in the barrel–the shit’s about to hit the fan and get splattered all over the freakin’ net. Because of you the government is probably going to find good and just cause to regulate. Because of you the cost of doing business on the net is going to rise exponentially. But mostly because of you, the party is over.
Some of you created your own brand of internet karma and now it’s looking like all of you might have to pay the price for it.
I read this and it made me think, you could substitue video porn for internet in this article and it would ring just as true. I ain’t saying everyone in video porn is a crook but for every one internet porner I have had screw me over I have had TWENTY plus video porners screw me over. In 4 years on the net I have been fucked once, by Jill Kelly and Personalporn.com. (NOTE the Video connection there) in ten years in porn I have been fucked by almost 30 companies, mostly distributors who never paid for product and/or bounced checks. Not one internet porner has ever bounced a check to me.
