Quote Originally Posted by Richard Craver View Post
i've never understood the epoch vs ccbill hullabaloo.

which company to use or not as the case may be is a business decision. nothing more, nothing less.

at the end of the day, the only thing i would care about would be which company increases my bottom line.

aka capitalism 101

Well, I agree with you to a point, but I think there should be a balance between just looking out for your bottom line and also looking out for the industry and best practices. Carrying or distributing bareback content might be very profitable, but you have to ask yourself if you want to possibly contribute to eroticizing behavior that can in many cases be life-threatening. I even understand why people were/are so pissed off about the Gay Phoenix Forum being canceled due, IN PART, to the scheduling of the GAYVN Retreat. The GPF was an AWESOME show, and I myself am very sad to see it go under. Knowing some of the backstage drama going on between the various companies doesn't help the situation either. But I was told last September, before the first GPF even happened, that it was likely that there wouldn't be a second one--and not because AVN or any other business wanted to crush CCBill's show.

Still, I think people need to put stuff like this in perspective and consider what's really important to their businesses in the long run, and also, frankly, whether any of this stuff is really any of their business. All this "Did you hear about Missy Lou's affair with the gardener" gossip-mill shit is just getting really, really old. It sounds like a bunch of old hens clucking about what's going behind the closed doors of their neighbors, tsk-tsk-tsk'ing their way into an uproar over stuff they don't really have any business knowing--not to mention spreading rumors about on a public forum. Talk about bad form. Sometimes the level of self-righteousness and cattiness makes my stomach turn. That's not what I call "best practices" by any stretch.