I'm glad to see more gay events, but I'm really, REALLY annoyed to see AVN being so petty as to try and directly compete with CCBill's events.

Nobody should forget how they initially tried to schedule Internext 2007 in March, conveniently competing with Phoenix Forum, and rescheduled it only when it became clear people would vote with their feet.

There is enough room for both AVN and CCBill to host successful events. Perhaps AVN has already learned from CCBill how to run a successful event in 2007, but AVN still has a lot to learn... gouging people $350 for a ticket to an event is not the way to get the up-and-coming webmasters that many big sponsor programs (gay and straight) are looking for, and attempting to directly compete with two very successful events is also not the way to do this.

The industry needs to work together, not to splinter itself.