do you use AEBN?

[GonZo]

Originally Posted by IreneBoss

Run away! LOL

Many years ago before DVD, I gave them a stack of VHS. They signed contracts, the whole 9 yeards, but they never put my stuff up. Then, the very same films began to get pirated in Montana and North Dakota. When I caught the guy through a private detective it turned out that he was associated with an old emplyee of theirs. What an awful mess! HotMovies is chasing me but I won't sign up with them either.
I'm pretty jaded I guess. I survived the CCBill server issues (remember the spying bots on their ports? If you didn't babysit your pennywize you were screwed) and I also survived GloBill. I don't put all my eggs in one basket with Verotel either.

My advise - don't give your money or content to anyone else if you can help it. Make the customers come directly to your site(s) to watch or buy your content. The big companies have so many damn producers anyway. If you are a little guy like me, do they really need you?

Irene

Can you please email gonzo@aebn.net or PM me the name of this employee that you gave your VHS tapes to? I certainly hope you pressed charges against the pirated sites as well as the ex-employee. I know I would have.

What site is it that you run?

I will make sure Bishop sees this latest reply.
I certainly dont agree with your advice of "hoard your content all to yourself". Proper licensing of your content to develop a brand seems to be better advice. You only need to look at Jenna to see how that can be done sucessfully. I am confident she wouldnt be the brand that she is now had she chose to not license her content. The woman is everywhere and possibly the shrewdest person in the business when it comes to marketing.

As an aside...Ive probably been around longer than you have and used CCBill and Pennywise in conjunction as well. I dont recall any CCBill bots watching ports that effected Pennywise. I would be interested in hearing more about this issue though.

The only company you didnt name an issue with was Paycom/Epoch and Im sure there are many of us that can recall they days of..."You'll get paid when I get paid." And to their credit they have survived those problems of the past.

You have your own merchant account now I hope?

This would probably would be good in a different thread as it has nothing to do with AEBN or customer support.