The stunning news of last week's bankruptcy filing by Colt's parent company Prowest Media, as well as that of it's owners, partners John Rutherford and Tom Settle, put into perspective the impossibility of the Colt deal, and the on-going effects of the Great Recession on the gay porn business. Combine that with the other trend-setting events of the week, and the gay porn business has been rocked like the San Francisco earthquake.

Titan's suit against the British tube sites is a welcome event in the online gay porn world. GayForIt.com (itsallgay.com, jerkofftube.com) et al are a fraud.

Titan will be successful because gayforit has a financial interest in the streaming of the content. It is selling access to that content on a subscription basis. It leases/controls the servers @ LeaseWeb, and it is making editorial decisions at minimum about some of its content. It is a financial model built on pirated content plain and simple.

Everyone in the industry bitches about piracy and content theft, and at least a couple of studios will go after theives (and there's always Titan), but these infringers of copyright have been getting away with it for years.

Is there anyone out there that is not aware of the relationship between GayPornBlog, which is owned and operated by NakedSword, a division of AEBN, which in turn, owns Raging Stallion?

Several weeks ago, GayPornTimes linked to an Advocate article since removed and republished at the author's blog, The Unabashed Queer’s Cut: Business Before Pleasure? -- enough links yet? -- that skids a little too close for comfort, apparently.

The acquisition of Raging Stallion/Pistol Media by AEBN is having some unintended consequences. Namely that gay studios are flocking to the competition unlike at any time before.

There's a buzz beginning about TLA's slow pay/no pay of several studios, and the company has missed royalty payments to studios in its VOD program; a no-no in the online world. AEBN and National A-1 have both made prompt payment a standard feature of their programs.

The juggernaut in gay, mainstream and porn DVDs appears to have some significant cash flow issues, may be

Inching towards its inevitable future, Falcon again advertises bareback in its weekly email (Feb. 27 edition). After attempting to claim its pre-condom movies to be bareback last April in a printed mailer, they seemed to quiet down some (and, well, after the departure of Todd Montgomery, said to be the initial driving force behind the studio's foray into raw porn). But, it's a recession, and sales have slowed.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Almost everyone in the industry knows that the so-called "merger" of Raging Stallion and AEBN is in actuality a takeover of the studio.

Director and Legend in his own mind Chris Ward has had a wild ride in the porn biz. His fast dealing ways have finally caught up with him. His outsized ego was always a problem for him, and he made decisions not based on sound business practice, but on extraneous factors such as whether he could screw a competitor. Not to be cruel, but what goes around comes around.

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