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Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know...
vansmack:
Alright, I make no bones about the fact that this is completely ego driven, but rather than starting a new topic nearly everyday, I will now post "Things Smackie Thinks You Need To Know" in this thread. The range will be as diverse as Smackie - politics to porn, sports to celeb gossip. Ignore it if you like, enjoy it if you will.
OBSCENE LOSSES
by Claire Hoffman
November 2007 Issue
Conde' Nast
DVD sales are in free fall. Audiences are flocking to pornographic knockoffs of YouTube, especially a secretive site called YouPorn. And the amateurs are taking over. Whatâ??s happening to the adult-entertainment industry is exactly whatâ??s happening to its Hollywood counterpartâ??only worse.
On Friday, May 18, Steve Hirsch, founder of Vivid Entertainment Group, the worldâ??s largest producer of adult videos, was expecting a mysterious visitor. But Stephen Paul Jones was late. When Jones, an unknown figure in the pornography world, finally arrived in the all-white reception area of Vividâ??s Los Angeles offices at 2 p.m., he was apologetic. His private plane had broken down, he explained, and he was forced to fly commercial. Hirsch, dressed in a T-shirt and jeans, found that excuse a little slick. But he was eager to speak with Jones, so he let it slide and introduced him to two Vivid colleagues. When the four men sat down in the companyâ??s conference room, Jones got right to the point: He wanted Vivid to buy his website, YouPorn.com.
More fascinating details about why the porn industry is now afraid of the internet rather than embracing it like they once were...
vansmack:
For a long time know I've been advocating sitting on the fence and letting the HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray debate play out. But tomorrow, Walmart and Best Buy are selling Toshiba HD-DVD players for $99. I'm pretty sure I'd pay $99 just to watch Transformers (and Megan Fox) in HD anytime I wanted to.
http://www.dailytech.com/HD+DVD+Player+to+Break+100+Mark+on+Friday/article9498.htm
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8021767&st=toshiba+hd&lp=5&type=product&cp=1&id=1158323325814
Black Friday comes earlier every year it seems...
godsshoeshine:
no fucking way, $99? that's a 'for the win' if the internet ever had one
HoyaSaxa03:
smackie needs a blog
vansmack:
Last night I was singing along to Journey with a transsexual playing a ukulele in an Irish pub. That's about as San Francisco as it gets â?? I love this town!
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