Benson Media Partnerships

[Benson_Media]

Hi

We're moving our company Benson Media back to the UK in the Autumn of 2008.

We produce mainly fetish content for DVD and web:

Yellowhore
HumanDoll
Petgirls
TigerrJuggs
Bukkakeslave

We're looking for partners/associates/co-producers freelance photographers, videographers, locations and shoot managers..and generally anyone who wants to do business.

Fresh new models welcome.

SEO's always interest us. Webmasters should check out our affiliate programs at:

http://www.bensoncash.com/

We've spent the last 3 years in The Netherlands and so have European connections with distribution, streaming and hosting - willing to share.

More about us at:

http://www.benson-media.com/about.html

[one eyed jack]

Hi Bensonmedia...why the hell would you be moving back to the UK when some producers are thinking about high tailing it off these shores with the rollout of the new BBFC Online scheme??? Uh...Oh you didnt know?

[Androm]

The new BBFC Online scheme - been reading about this.

?The BBFC is very concerned about the increasingly widespread availability of unregulated, harmful audiovisual material on the internet?
?The BBFC have therefore been pressing for a statutory solution which requires the effective regulation of harmful audiovisual material distributed by means of download or streaming on the internet.?

A very worthy cause... or as the cynical person in me thinks really a case for making more money.

?Although the BBFC online Certificates would have no statutory force, membership of the Scheme would carry an obligation to display the classification clearly at online point of sale? the scheme appears to be attractive to the mainstream industry but also very attractive to the adult industry.?

????? ? I believe most of my customers would not really care if they were a BBFC graphic on the front of a website. I certainly do not go around sex shops thinking I?ll buy this DVD because it has an R18 logo on it.
Most adult websites have ccbill, verotel, ECT, that only accept visa or Mastercard of which you have to be 18 legally own one. If a minor is going to nick a credit card to log onto a porn site they are going to do it whatever the case.

Plus I?m not sure how it would work because most porn sites will up their site or relocate to foreign lands where there are no restrictions. Of-course, I?m not party to any discussions and maybe the BBFC are bring something in worldwide (however, I do think the B stands for British). So seems rather unworkable to me, only if they are going to force in law every adult site in the UK to join.

[Benson_Media]

I published in the UK for export for a decade.

Two publishers who decide to re-import my stuf ended up before the beak.

I come back with my eyes open.

NL is not an easy place to work. You've been there a bit longer than me but even Stebe at Demask wants to high tail to France.

France!!??

That's pretty desperate.

Im just innit for the beer. English beer.

[Benson_Media]

I have to agree:

"I believe most of my customers would not really care if they were a BBFC graphic on the front of a website.."

'BBFC'..is that an island thing?

Most of the stuff coming out of the UK doesn't even have USC2257.

[Androm]

I forgot to say in my mutterings above, that minors (and certain other people around the world) really don?t have the need for credit cards to access adult material because they are much more intelligent (?) and download via bit torrents. Of-course, I know the government are worried about this! There again the government are worried about anything they can?t control.

I now have work out the reason they want us all to drink tap water instead of bottled!

"Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkes" - Karl Marks No Religion what controls the masses?

[one eyed jack]

Unworkable you say Androm? Well consider this.

They dont want you to be intimidated. Hey its not mandatory to join but when the press release gets out and the headlines scream: Porn outlawed in England because you know the media is not going to be compromising in the headlines unless you read the small print.

The only people it will put off is the public at large who will be confused and scared about looking at a site they think might get them nicked. It will become law in 2009 that anyone in possession of an extreme image or even just asking for it can go down for 3 years for it.

A bit far fetched you might think, then throw in the new bill passed on the criminal justice and imigration bill paragraph 6 (man I sound like Robocop) which will be cited and you might have a panic of brit folk never looking at your site inless...Cue harmonious strings and fluffy white clouds and bright rays of light...The BBFC Online logo is plastered over your site stating, there is no need to worry because it has been endorsed by the government who are behind the BBFC so you are "excluded from prosecution"

You aint heard the half of it. Join UKAP and get the full inside scoop.

Oh and I suppose those anarchic webmasters think...Yeah whatever but it doesnt end with the BBFC Online. Legislation reforms are expected to sweep europe on the internet issue to "tone down" things going on the net in line with the new televison without frontiers and this will include the internet and streaming.

They dont need a whole task force to do this. Just a couple of juicy test cases so any of you webmasters with corpse fucking on your site better run for the hills. The others please rember that harm to the breasts, anus and genitalia can be open to interpretation from the various courts across the land.

Not trying to scare anybody mind. I'm a pornographer too you know but given what I've heard from certain people of influence lately it seems the various authorities are saying we've had a bit of a good run with it and now its time to clean up before it gets out of control.

And the internet has been out of control for a long time. Dont get me wrong, its not set up to hound us all out of it, well not yet anyway, thats probably phase 2 but to give them more powers to go after the big bad boys. So all the folk that think they are untouchable should think just how untouchable you will be if you leave the country thinking you are safe in doing so.

And no, before the rumours start, its not been put in place by UKAP, Strictly broadband or AITA who make it their business to know what is going on in this industry whereas many would rather be in ignorance...

And now everyone is going to say, I never heard of this or any legislation sweeping europe etc.

Its out there on the internet folks. Google it.

[Benson_Media]

I was living in the US when Ashcroft was on a mission to clean up the industry there. Everyone was shitting their pants. The government never showed their teeth though...

They didn't need to. They had us all shitting our pants. Job done.

The UK is always plodding after the US. No big deal. Nothing really new. Do you not remember Spanner?

[Dave Wells]

Simon you have mail ????????????

[one eyed jack]

The BBFC thing is definitely coming. I know this for a fact. How it will take off with the adult market is anyones guess but it seems the more commercial, mainstream companies are happy to kow tow ie warner bros, twentieth century Fox and Disney...not as some would believe David Sullivan trying to keep a strangle hold on the market.

On the DS issue i dont really share everyones view that he is the bad guy everyone percieves him to be. not that thats the issue right now.

However it would be ok if you are right Benson but too much has taken place to make sure this is definitely here to stay and we'd better get used to it.