Well, I've held off in responding to this thread in order to see just how bizarre the comments might become ! But now that we're at the verge of debating the difference between capitalism and communist remnants it's time to pipe in.
#1 - If you must know, my mother has had chronic health problems for the past year or two. She has been admitted and released from the hospital several times in the past few months. As she is now an invalid, and because she depends on me for daily care (my Respiratory Therapist training certainly came in handy administering daily IV antibiotic injections into the Arterial Port her doctors installed), I have not been able to make any major travel or schedule commitments since last September when her relapse occurred. In fact I do have several new photo layouts in the 'can', but have not had the time to sit down, tweak the images, and post them to my website. Members of my website are aware of the situation with my mother's medical condition, and have been very understanding in this regard (which I greatly appreciate). In the interest of these members, perhaps I'll impose on my web guru SteveF to take the time which I don't have to tweak the new pics and post them on my behalf.
#2 - The subject of "fresh pics", i.e. pics shot in the chronologically recent past versus pics shot en masse in one session but then posted gradually over a period of several months, is one which I have previously voiced my opinion about. In fact this was one of the reasons I chose to sever my relationship with Photoclubs, as they routinely pay their models a one time fee, shoot hundreds of pics during a single photo session, and then post a portion of these pics bi-weekly over a period of the next several months. As also pointed out, magazines such as SCORE often shoot several photo sets during a model's visit to their studio, which may not actually be published in the magazine until months or even years later. As nobody seems to complain about these practices where other big bust models are involved, I felt that it was safe to resort to the same procedure temporarily due to the time demands my mother's condition now places upon me.
#3 - as far as the enforcement of copyrights in former Communist Block countries, my only "real world" response to this issue is the well known New York expression "fuggedaboudit". Yes, websites and other media in these countries routinely pirate material, profit from its redistribution, and don't even bother informing the original model let alone paying her anything. Actually, pirated pics from my website is nowhere near the top of the list in this regard - I actually discovered that I am apparently considered somewhat of a cult figure on Yugoslavian TV, as European fans have informed me that one of my videos has made the rounds in a 3am timeslot or something. It is true that eastern European media and websites apparently do not feel they are obligated to provide any further payment to a model if SOMEONE has originally paid for the material, but country-wide rebroadcast of a video which one person paid me $29 for does seem to be taking the "sharing with your comrades" principle a bit far for a capitalist mind to absorb. As far as legal recourse, again, "fuggedaboudit". You can imagine the costs and risks involved in attempting to ascertain exactly which person in exactly which eastern european country was responsible for the republication of copyrighted material, let alone attempting to get eastern european law enforcement agencies to take action against a "comrade" based on the word of a "capitalist" - particularly when adult material is involved.
#4 - In regard to retirement plans, the thought occasionally crosses my mind. These occasions often co-incide with incidents where my hard work as a big bust model results in enduring insults and/or financial loss. As a matter of fact, it just so happens that the $750 annual renewal fee for my website's ability to process MasterCard and Visa charges in 2004 is about to rear its ugly head. Given the actual profit margin of my website after hosting fees and bandwidth charges, plus this $750 fee coming due in the very near future, plus the time demands placed upon me by my mother's condition, the thought has briefly crossed my mind to shut down my website, save the $750 fee, and concentrate my efforts on my IFriends WebCam site and modeling for large multi-girl big boob websites in exchange for a fixed modeling fee. Of course if I were to do this, it would be extremely bad for the profitability of eastern european pirate sites such as the one Shadow patronizes (or maybe not, they'd just pirate the images from the multi-girl big boob websites, but at least it would then be their financial loss and not mine) !
.... and guys actually wonder why there are so few new big bust models entering the business !!!!!