AFTL-FAQ Maintainer
2003-11-20 21:17:47 UTC
As the FAQ Maintainer for this newsgrouop, and the fact
that certain felons are refering the users to an unauthorized,
unapproved document which is nothing more than a plagiarized,
theft of Copyrighted work hosted by Earthlink.net, I am posting
this FACTUAL document.
Traci Lords Adult Videos are Legally manufactured and
sold in Canada, Sweden, France, England, and other countries.
I have agreements with these Distributors, to import
and resell these videos in the United States, according to the
Distributors, there is at least one other person in Texas, who
is doing the same thing.
The Retail Boxed videos sell Wholesale for $40.00 each,
copies of the videos in plain white boxes sell for $25.00 each.
Anyone who has used my web site, which I have updated to include
DVD copies of all these videos, know that I do NOT charge one
cent higher prices than these wholesale prices.
Let me explain a few things about Video Quality to those
who are less knowledgeable about it.
These felons tell you to use P2P sharing and get the VCD
images of these 75-120 minute movies. VCD is MPEG-1 quality which
can fit 60 minutes on a CD. Which means to view these movies you
will have to burn 2 CDs and change them out after one finishes
playing. MPEG-1 quality is described by the Motion Picture
Entertainment Group (MPEG) as VHS quality. Fine, that's why I
only use SVHS myself.
These VCD images are captured using a TV tuner card, or
perhaps if you're lucky, a Dazzle DVC-50, DVC-80, DVC, DVCII,
from VHS video tapes, which are of questionable quality. I have
downloaded several of these videos and they have digital pixelation,
and are very grainy images, probably from a 4th to 9th generation
copy.
MPEG-1 is usually 352x240, or something like that which is
very poor image quality.
MPEG-2 is 720x480 Full Screen Digital encoding which can
fit at Full quality 60 minutes on a DVD, or at 50% reduction in
quality 120 minutes on a single layer DVD. Please note, that
because the quality is HIGHER than CHS to begin with, a 120 minute
DVD will still have SUperior Picture quality than VHS.
All my DVD copies that I make are made from Studio Retail
Tapes, which are probably 1st or 2nd generation tapes, so the image
quality is supurb to begin with. I use Pinnacle Capture Hardware
and Software to capture DV quality AVI files of the VHS/Beta/LaserDisc
Titles. This resultong 18+GB AVI is then converted to MPEG-2 to fit
on the DVD, which takes approximately 7-8 hours.
The resulting DVDs are indistinguishable in quality from the
original Studip Retail Stereo Hi-Fi VHS/Beta/LaserDisc, and have the
superior playback quality of DVD. There is NO digitizing of the image,
no pixelation, the DVD image is flawless.
I have been reselling the Retail VHS and Copies for over 5
years, and have had no complaints as to the quality. For awhile I was
supplying the Traci Lords Club with videos, but they then went to a
guy who had very bad copies, about 6-7 generation tapes if not more
than that, and he never filled the orders, only sent partial orders,
and caused The Traci Lords Club to go out of business.
When I shipped out my viudeos for them, I was required by the
Post Office to use my return address, and as such previous buyers who
bought the inferior tapes started emailing me for replacements. Which
I do NOT do, because they changed suppliers. They sold these tapes for
$50.00 each or higher.
I have had repeat customers because the quality of the videos
I supply are of the highest quality anywhere. Unlike any other place,
I do replace defective Videos and DVDs with the same title.
If you want to listen to these felons and get the grainy, very
poor quality VCD files from the P2P shre networks, be my guest, when
you get the postage stamp sized image on your monitor, click full screen
and then see the grainy image. Or play them on your TV, full screen on
CDs you burned on your computer, notice the grainy picture and the
digitizing pixelated squares?
The problem with this FAKE FAQ, and it's supporters, are that
they believe that Traci's Videos should only be bad 4th-200+th generation
copies, and they REFUSE to tell the users of this group, where they can
BUY the NEW Retail Boxed Videos that are still being manufactured.
For those who think the Happy Shopper is good, READ their
description of the tapes, subtitles on most all of them. The ONLY video
we carry in a foreign language is Young and Restless II and it has no
subtitles, NONE of our videos have subtitles.
Look at our LIST of Videos, with the exception of a few compilation
tapes, there is ONLY 1 Retail Video Feature Traci made that we do NOT
have.
Dupas, Slavetrainer, and the others REFUSE to list the one place
where you can BUY RETAIL BOXED VIDEOS that are still manufactured and
distributed in Canada, and are made from the Studio Master Tapes (TRUE
First Genberation Copies).
The purpose of this group, READ MY FAQ, the Usenet Admin Approved
FAQ, is to inform the users about Traci Lords. How can anything call
itself a FAQ and REFUSE to tell you where you can still legally obtain
High Quality Videos?
I have never met Dupas, Slavetrainer, or probably anyone else in
this newsgroup. I do NOT have links to Dupas's pages in my FAQ, for the
pure and simple reason, he is infringing my Copyright, by claiming his is
the newsgroup FAQ.
According to usenet admin, the HIGHEST form of ABUSE in the
newsgroups is posting anything claiming to be the FAQ, and that FAQ is
NOT approved by usenet admin.
FACT PEOPLE: What FAQ do you want? One that claims her videos
are ILLEGAL, which means that if you download the VCD files from P2P and
view them on your monitor you are committing a Felony Crime. Or the REAL
One that tells you where you can still purchase her videos Legally in the
United States of America, with the MOST complete collection of her work?
Let me tell you all about myself, I am a disabled American Veteran,
who has a Service-Connected Disability. I am on a very limited income,
and am trying to HELP Traci Lords Fans preserve her work, and help them
get what they are looking for.
In 1995, I fell for a SCAM, one of many run by a person named
William BJ NAsh. He advertised in Boardwatch Magazine, a publication for
professional Computer BBS Operators, this thing called Tel-Pay Clearings.
They would let you charge purchases to a customers phone number, collect
the money from the phone company, claiming you'd never have a bad debt,
as the Phone Company would collect the money for you. I signed up for this
service as did many others, never got a cent.
BJ Nash wrote this eBook called spamming for dollars in which he
wanted us to SPAM BBSes, the Internet etc., with his scams. Tel-Pay being
one of them, for every BBS operator or business that signed up with you as
the referrer would get you $5.00, and a percent of their sales. He also
had a debit card service, before Banks gave these to eveyrone with a checking
account, that would cost the people money for the card, and charge them for
every transaction, again, you would get $5.00 for referring them and a
percentage of any thing they bought. Both these companies were operated out
of BJ Nash's parents basement in Vista, California, and were Incorporated in
Nevada (which requires a Nevada Office and mailing address), so he could
avoid paying taxes on the money he made.
I have owned my own businesses since 1981, they are registered in
Illinois, Dunn & Bradstreet called me and said I am listed with them, and
we have no complaints against us with any Attorney General or BBB.
The ONLY thing that I seem to be doing that Dupas, Slavetrainer,
and the others DESPISE ME FOR, is making available all of Traci Lords
videos to anyone who is looking for them.
Let me explain a few things, these Videos are Copyright by the
manufacturers, I have permission from them to duplicate them and to
distribute them. Capturing a video, making it in Digital Form and then
sending it out over the internet in file form, is a violation of that
Copyright.
Let's summarize this. Dupas is violating my Copyright on the FAQ,
which is a felony crime. Dupas is encouraging infringing the Copyright
of the owners of these movies, by making ILLEGAL copies and distributing
them. He does NOT want you to BUY them from the manufacturers.
The Traci Lords Newsgroup FAQ is (C) Terry Ortman, NO ONE has the
right to duplicate it, use it in any form, without written express permission
from me, the owner of the Copyright. There is NO FEE for reading my FAQ,
it is FREELY distributed and kept on the Faq-Server at MIT for anyone to
read, and unlike the ILLEGAL one, is approved by news-admin.
ALL the videotapes, DVDs, etc., of Traci Lords that we resell, all
bear the Copyright Notice and the Name of the Copyright Owner.
Dupas, Slavetrainer and all the others IGNORE the Copyright, and
seem to think that they can freely use and distribute other peoples work
and intellectual property.
FINE, stop reporting Dupas and his felons to ***@earthlink.net,
continue to harass me, steal my Copyright and insult me.
And in return, I will NEVER sell DVDs, VHS, Beta, etc., High Quality
Videos of Traci Lords movies.
There you have it. Why support the ONLY place you can GET very
HIGH QUality copies of her movies and videos, when you can settle for the
poor quality, grainy VCD images that are floating around in the P2P and
binary newsgroups.
I doubt very much that these Felons can afford to upload an 18+GB
FULL QUALITY DV AVI of any of Traci's Movies that were made from Studio
Master tapes.
For those that are interested, these are currently available:
Night Of Loving Dangerously - Very Good Quality, made from the Retail
VHS tape from Canada.
Black Throat - High Quality made from the Dark Brothers VHS Retail Master
tape, contains the New Wave Hooker Preview, then following the complete
Black Throat movie, the trailers for Le Me Tell Ya Bout Black Chicks,
Between the Cheeks, and White Bunbusters.
Suzie Superstar II - High Quality made from the VHS Retail Master tape,
includes the preview of Erotic City.
Jean Genie - High Quality made from the VHS Retail Master Tape.
Deep Inside Traci - Very Good Quality made from the Retail Master Tape,
which was very PINK, using the authoring software I corrected the color
and this DVD, unlike the Retail VHS Tape, is in perfect correct color.
What Gets Me Hot! - Very High Quality made from the Retail MAster Tape,
Traci's first screen appearance.
Swedish Erotica Volume 57 - This is just now finishing the MPEG-2
encoding process and will be completed by the end of the day, High
Quality off the Caballero Retail VHS Tape.
If you want any of these DVDs, which will last anywhere from
100-200 years, compared to the magnetic shelf life of VHS/Beta of 10-15
years, email me.
that certain felons are refering the users to an unauthorized,
unapproved document which is nothing more than a plagiarized,
theft of Copyrighted work hosted by Earthlink.net, I am posting
this FACTUAL document.
Traci Lords Adult Videos are Legally manufactured and
sold in Canada, Sweden, France, England, and other countries.
I have agreements with these Distributors, to import
and resell these videos in the United States, according to the
Distributors, there is at least one other person in Texas, who
is doing the same thing.
The Retail Boxed videos sell Wholesale for $40.00 each,
copies of the videos in plain white boxes sell for $25.00 each.
Anyone who has used my web site, which I have updated to include
DVD copies of all these videos, know that I do NOT charge one
cent higher prices than these wholesale prices.
Let me explain a few things about Video Quality to those
who are less knowledgeable about it.
These felons tell you to use P2P sharing and get the VCD
images of these 75-120 minute movies. VCD is MPEG-1 quality which
can fit 60 minutes on a CD. Which means to view these movies you
will have to burn 2 CDs and change them out after one finishes
playing. MPEG-1 quality is described by the Motion Picture
Entertainment Group (MPEG) as VHS quality. Fine, that's why I
only use SVHS myself.
These VCD images are captured using a TV tuner card, or
perhaps if you're lucky, a Dazzle DVC-50, DVC-80, DVC, DVCII,
from VHS video tapes, which are of questionable quality. I have
downloaded several of these videos and they have digital pixelation,
and are very grainy images, probably from a 4th to 9th generation
copy.
MPEG-1 is usually 352x240, or something like that which is
very poor image quality.
MPEG-2 is 720x480 Full Screen Digital encoding which can
fit at Full quality 60 minutes on a DVD, or at 50% reduction in
quality 120 minutes on a single layer DVD. Please note, that
because the quality is HIGHER than CHS to begin with, a 120 minute
DVD will still have SUperior Picture quality than VHS.
All my DVD copies that I make are made from Studio Retail
Tapes, which are probably 1st or 2nd generation tapes, so the image
quality is supurb to begin with. I use Pinnacle Capture Hardware
and Software to capture DV quality AVI files of the VHS/Beta/LaserDisc
Titles. This resultong 18+GB AVI is then converted to MPEG-2 to fit
on the DVD, which takes approximately 7-8 hours.
The resulting DVDs are indistinguishable in quality from the
original Studip Retail Stereo Hi-Fi VHS/Beta/LaserDisc, and have the
superior playback quality of DVD. There is NO digitizing of the image,
no pixelation, the DVD image is flawless.
I have been reselling the Retail VHS and Copies for over 5
years, and have had no complaints as to the quality. For awhile I was
supplying the Traci Lords Club with videos, but they then went to a
guy who had very bad copies, about 6-7 generation tapes if not more
than that, and he never filled the orders, only sent partial orders,
and caused The Traci Lords Club to go out of business.
When I shipped out my viudeos for them, I was required by the
Post Office to use my return address, and as such previous buyers who
bought the inferior tapes started emailing me for replacements. Which
I do NOT do, because they changed suppliers. They sold these tapes for
$50.00 each or higher.
I have had repeat customers because the quality of the videos
I supply are of the highest quality anywhere. Unlike any other place,
I do replace defective Videos and DVDs with the same title.
If you want to listen to these felons and get the grainy, very
poor quality VCD files from the P2P shre networks, be my guest, when
you get the postage stamp sized image on your monitor, click full screen
and then see the grainy image. Or play them on your TV, full screen on
CDs you burned on your computer, notice the grainy picture and the
digitizing pixelated squares?
The problem with this FAKE FAQ, and it's supporters, are that
they believe that Traci's Videos should only be bad 4th-200+th generation
copies, and they REFUSE to tell the users of this group, where they can
BUY the NEW Retail Boxed Videos that are still being manufactured.
For those who think the Happy Shopper is good, READ their
description of the tapes, subtitles on most all of them. The ONLY video
we carry in a foreign language is Young and Restless II and it has no
subtitles, NONE of our videos have subtitles.
Look at our LIST of Videos, with the exception of a few compilation
tapes, there is ONLY 1 Retail Video Feature Traci made that we do NOT
have.
Dupas, Slavetrainer, and the others REFUSE to list the one place
where you can BUY RETAIL BOXED VIDEOS that are still manufactured and
distributed in Canada, and are made from the Studio Master Tapes (TRUE
First Genberation Copies).
The purpose of this group, READ MY FAQ, the Usenet Admin Approved
FAQ, is to inform the users about Traci Lords. How can anything call
itself a FAQ and REFUSE to tell you where you can still legally obtain
High Quality Videos?
I have never met Dupas, Slavetrainer, or probably anyone else in
this newsgroup. I do NOT have links to Dupas's pages in my FAQ, for the
pure and simple reason, he is infringing my Copyright, by claiming his is
the newsgroup FAQ.
According to usenet admin, the HIGHEST form of ABUSE in the
newsgroups is posting anything claiming to be the FAQ, and that FAQ is
NOT approved by usenet admin.
FACT PEOPLE: What FAQ do you want? One that claims her videos
are ILLEGAL, which means that if you download the VCD files from P2P and
view them on your monitor you are committing a Felony Crime. Or the REAL
One that tells you where you can still purchase her videos Legally in the
United States of America, with the MOST complete collection of her work?
Let me tell you all about myself, I am a disabled American Veteran,
who has a Service-Connected Disability. I am on a very limited income,
and am trying to HELP Traci Lords Fans preserve her work, and help them
get what they are looking for.
In 1995, I fell for a SCAM, one of many run by a person named
William BJ NAsh. He advertised in Boardwatch Magazine, a publication for
professional Computer BBS Operators, this thing called Tel-Pay Clearings.
They would let you charge purchases to a customers phone number, collect
the money from the phone company, claiming you'd never have a bad debt,
as the Phone Company would collect the money for you. I signed up for this
service as did many others, never got a cent.
BJ Nash wrote this eBook called spamming for dollars in which he
wanted us to SPAM BBSes, the Internet etc., with his scams. Tel-Pay being
one of them, for every BBS operator or business that signed up with you as
the referrer would get you $5.00, and a percent of their sales. He also
had a debit card service, before Banks gave these to eveyrone with a checking
account, that would cost the people money for the card, and charge them for
every transaction, again, you would get $5.00 for referring them and a
percentage of any thing they bought. Both these companies were operated out
of BJ Nash's parents basement in Vista, California, and were Incorporated in
Nevada (which requires a Nevada Office and mailing address), so he could
avoid paying taxes on the money he made.
I have owned my own businesses since 1981, they are registered in
Illinois, Dunn & Bradstreet called me and said I am listed with them, and
we have no complaints against us with any Attorney General or BBB.
The ONLY thing that I seem to be doing that Dupas, Slavetrainer,
and the others DESPISE ME FOR, is making available all of Traci Lords
videos to anyone who is looking for them.
Let me explain a few things, these Videos are Copyright by the
manufacturers, I have permission from them to duplicate them and to
distribute them. Capturing a video, making it in Digital Form and then
sending it out over the internet in file form, is a violation of that
Copyright.
Let's summarize this. Dupas is violating my Copyright on the FAQ,
which is a felony crime. Dupas is encouraging infringing the Copyright
of the owners of these movies, by making ILLEGAL copies and distributing
them. He does NOT want you to BUY them from the manufacturers.
The Traci Lords Newsgroup FAQ is (C) Terry Ortman, NO ONE has the
right to duplicate it, use it in any form, without written express permission
from me, the owner of the Copyright. There is NO FEE for reading my FAQ,
it is FREELY distributed and kept on the Faq-Server at MIT for anyone to
read, and unlike the ILLEGAL one, is approved by news-admin.
ALL the videotapes, DVDs, etc., of Traci Lords that we resell, all
bear the Copyright Notice and the Name of the Copyright Owner.
Dupas, Slavetrainer and all the others IGNORE the Copyright, and
seem to think that they can freely use and distribute other peoples work
and intellectual property.
FINE, stop reporting Dupas and his felons to ***@earthlink.net,
continue to harass me, steal my Copyright and insult me.
And in return, I will NEVER sell DVDs, VHS, Beta, etc., High Quality
Videos of Traci Lords movies.
There you have it. Why support the ONLY place you can GET very
HIGH QUality copies of her movies and videos, when you can settle for the
poor quality, grainy VCD images that are floating around in the P2P and
binary newsgroups.
I doubt very much that these Felons can afford to upload an 18+GB
FULL QUALITY DV AVI of any of Traci's Movies that were made from Studio
Master tapes.
For those that are interested, these are currently available:
Night Of Loving Dangerously - Very Good Quality, made from the Retail
VHS tape from Canada.
Black Throat - High Quality made from the Dark Brothers VHS Retail Master
tape, contains the New Wave Hooker Preview, then following the complete
Black Throat movie, the trailers for Le Me Tell Ya Bout Black Chicks,
Between the Cheeks, and White Bunbusters.
Suzie Superstar II - High Quality made from the VHS Retail Master tape,
includes the preview of Erotic City.
Jean Genie - High Quality made from the VHS Retail Master Tape.
Deep Inside Traci - Very Good Quality made from the Retail Master Tape,
which was very PINK, using the authoring software I corrected the color
and this DVD, unlike the Retail VHS Tape, is in perfect correct color.
What Gets Me Hot! - Very High Quality made from the Retail MAster Tape,
Traci's first screen appearance.
Swedish Erotica Volume 57 - This is just now finishing the MPEG-2
encoding process and will be completed by the end of the day, High
Quality off the Caballero Retail VHS Tape.
If you want any of these DVDs, which will last anywhere from
100-200 years, compared to the magnetic shelf life of VHS/Beta of 10-15
years, email me.