Attention fellow producers

[Max5s]

For those of you who care, I received the following PM today. It is the second contact I have had from this individual. It reads as follows:

Hi, would you like to exchange videos with me? I have hundreds of videos from all producers. So, are you interested?

Thank you.

It is from a person using the name "shindam".

[Bluestone]

It is my mission to track down these scumbags and ban them and all who trade with them from my server for life, which means they will have no access to FF, my store or to Genre Videos. If they want more videos to trade, they'll have to get them elsewhere. Anyone who has information on file-sharers, please contact me at DDGBluestone@hotmail.com. Their existence is a blot on our community and the very reason why community members may soon have very few good videos available to them, because producers like me will sooner or later just give up having to deal with these brainless baboons and close up shop. They have already driven UKSG out of the public domain. As a result, everyone who loved the UKSG videos and wished they could get new videos from them have these bastards to thank for ruining a good thing. Personally speaking, I could close up shop tomorrow and would have more money in my pocket than I do today. It's very tempting actually, but I'll give the community a little more time to clean itself up... so that the honest fans can keep getting the videos that they love. As for the file-sharers and pirates, they can go and fuck themselves. The more that I ban from our community, the better I'll feel!

Blue

[Bluestone]

User "Shindan" has been banned for life from FF and the Bluestone server in general and will therefore not be able to purchase any videos from Genre Videos or my Silk 'N Blood store. This is what will happen to any person who file-shares our community producers' videos. It's us or them, folks. There's no room in our community for this cancer, because if it spreads, it will kill the host body!

Blue

[Nyghtfall]

They have already driven UKSG out of the public domain.

They have? I thought Director8 was UKSG, just posting under another name. Their filmmaking techniques look nearly identical.

[Bluestone]

They have already driven UKSG out of the public domain.

They have? I thought Director8 was UKSG, just posting under another name. Their filmmaking techniques look nearly identical.

I don't know who Director8 is, but Director B works for me, but does not actually direct my films. He works in our promotion department. The filmmaking techniques that I use for my Superheroine and Spy films are based upon standard TV quality production values. You are right, Nyghtfall, that UKSG was a great influence in the direction of my higher quality films, and we partnered initially, but those co-productions came to an end some time ago. So, you're a little behind the times. Bluestone Videos Productions has been going it alone with our own films for a couple of years now. UKSG, on the other hand, has not produced films for the public domain since our co-productions ended. They are gone, and we have the pirates and file-sharers to thank for their departure from our community. That is a fact, plain and simple.

Blue

[Nyghtfall]

I don't know who Director8 is, but Director B works for me, but does not actually direct my films.

Sorry, the font had me mistaking the B for an 8.

You are right, Nyghtfall, that UKSG was a great influence in the direction of my higher quality films, and we partnered initially, but those co-productions came to an end some time ago. So, you're a little behind the times.

Then I stand corrected. Based on what I've seen of your trailers, their influence on you in terms of shooting technique and production quality has been noticeably impressive. Well done.

[Bluestone]

You are right, Nyghtfall, that UKSG was a great influence in the direction of my higher quality films, and we partnered initially, but those co-productions came to an end some time ago. So, you're a little behind the times.

Then I stand corrected. Based on what I've seen of your trailers, their influence on you in terms of shooting technique and production quality has been noticeably impressive. Well done.

Yes, I have learned from the best. When they departed, they were also kind enough to provide me with contact information for all of the cast that they had used in our co-productions as well as some of the crew. So, I was able to continue almost seamlessly with the same Superheroine and Spy series that we had started together. They have also transferred copyright to their older videos to me which I am releasing as UKSG Classics. So, I can understand why you were confused about their departure. They are good friends and I do miss them. Our community is poorer without them, even though I am still producing two video lines using their much more expensive production techniques. The continuation of such quality productions though is very much dependent upon our community cracking down on file-sharers and pirates. Otherwise, I will not be continuing to fund productions that are not breaking even because of a few boneheaded bastards.

If anyone has a line on file-sharers, DO NOT post it on the public boards, but please send me an email or pm. I'd love to make my day by giving them a one way ticket to oblivion.

Blue

[Pennpaul]

Has anyone noticed that the producers subject to piracy and file sharing seem to be those in a top seller category? Does it really pay to provide high quality and competent actors along with props and location.

Just asking

[Nyghtfall]

Does it really pay to provide high quality and competent actors along with props and location.

Is that a serious question?

[Tkiller]

I have been contacted on here by two individuals recently asking me to trade videos. I am thinking it may have been the same person, coming back at me with a different name. And the person just banned is one who had contacted me. I have not exchanged anything with him, or even looked at his list. I do not wish to see the producers hurt. This has already destroyed the music industry, and this industry is a lot smaller and vulnerable.

[Bluestone]

I have been contacted on here by two individuals recently asking me to trade videos. I am thinking it may have been the same person, coming back at me with a different name. And the person just banned is one who had contacted me. I have not exchanged anything with him, or even looked at his list. I do not wish to see the producers hurt. This has already destroyed the music industry, and this industry is a lot smaller and vulnerable.

Right On! PennPaul's comment is also along this line, because it is the high quality stuff that is being pirated the most, so producers are already asking themselves, why bother? In my case, if I can film 4 videos in a day by myself at a cost of a few hundred dollars each and sell them for $13-15 apiece, why would I spend two days to film one of my upgraded films with a full crew that will cost me thousands of dollars just to sell it for $18-20 and have it pirated so that I lose a LOT of money on it? It is a very fair question, and it is up to all of us to ensure that producers don't start answering it with, "Fuck it! I'm not going to bother spending extra money on quality that I can't recover. I'm just going to continue to produce at the cheapest price possible." People ask me, why don't you shoot your crime films with the same TV production values that you use for your Superheroine/Spy films. The answer is simple: "The market simply doesn't warrant that type of quality for the majority of my productions."

Only the community as a whole can stop piracy!

Tkiller, pm or email me the second file-sharer's username. I believe I dealt with him earlier, but if not, I will crush him now!

Blue

[Peter]

Has anyone noticed that the producers subject to piracy and file sharing seem to be those in a top seller category? Does it really pay to provide high quality and competent actors along with props and location.

It's not just the top sellers that get pirated. In fact I suspect a reason some producers are not in the top sellers may be because they have already been so thoroughly pirated. Not all that long ago for instance, I found over four hundred of my own videos being given away for free on Motherless.

After the demise of Necrobabes in 2008 and my losing my studio, I continued to produce at a much reduced rate for a couple of years. But when the last video I shot sold all of five copies before it appeared on a pirate site, I just gave up. None of my production after 2008 ever paid for itself, I was losing money with each shoot.

Piracy is SO rampant, I frankly have no understanding at all how the few remaining producers are able to stick it out. I strongly suspect that they are paying themselves $2.00 an hour and slaving for 100 hours a week, sleeping in a back room of their studio, all for the love of the craft.

[Bluestone]

Piracy is SO rampant, I frankly have no understanding at all how the few remaining producers are able to stick it out. I strongly suspect that they are paying themselves $2.00 an hour and slaving for 100 hours a week, sleeping in a back room of their studio, all for the love of the craft.

$2.00 an hour? I can pay myself $2.00 an hour? Wow! That would be a nice bonus.

Peter, you're not far off the mark. Without a day job, I would simply have to close up shop, because there's no money in this business. It's the enjoyment of the art form that keeps me going, and the tipping point is when it's no longer any fun... and the pirates can suck all of the enjoyment out of this business for producers. When I spend an entire night taking down pirated videos instead of editing a Suzi or Petra video that I have wanted to edit for months, I think that maybe it's time to simply forget about it all and stop all future productions. It would be an easy decision to make, because it wouldn't cost me anything to give up, plus I could keep more of the paycheques that I've been using to fund the shortfall. No, I'm not working 100 hours a week at this business alone, but I am working at least 100 hours a week... although I do sleep in the Bluestone mansion.

Blue

[uncle_buck]

http://www.femmefatalities.com/phpBB3/u ... ew&p=15385

While on the subject of "Invitations To Trade" ...

This is a link emailed to me from this site as a "Private Message" ...

Perhaps the site administrator can track this down?

You will find my response to his second query if you do.
It was rather polite, I think - all things considered ...

(I am not a "producer" but depend upon being in the good graces of those who do - principally Olaf Winter of Amazon-Warriors)

~Uncle Buck~

[uncle_buck]

I posted the message above to the wrong message-string!
Sorry!
~UB~