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<p>One of my hobbies is writing short stories. I usually write them in French and my English is relatively poor, but I thought I could try to write one for you. It's obviously a fiction and all the characters and situations depicted are purely imaginary. It takes place into a bigger and more complicated fantasy world with lots of characters and other stories, this is just a secondary plot but I think it's an interesting one.<br /><br />The story is :<br /><br />- John is making amateur videos of himself and he's selling them. He uses to post some free previews of those vids on a free gay site which is also a social network. Lots of private companies are doing so: you can find for free a 2 minutes clip, but if you want to see more you must go to the site and buy the registration, this is fair enough. The only difference is that John is not a big company with money, cameramen and lawyers, but just a little guy standing alone in his bathroom.<br /><br />- Jake is a very beautiful, strong, wise, rich and powerful man owning millions; his body is magnificent and he's just a genius, supporting human rights, helping gay youth ; he's got some private sex sites, makes professional porn and works with dangerous hackers. Maybe that's just into his imagination, but who knows?<br /><br />- Jake saw some John's clips and thought the boy was cute, but that the video quality was poor. He proposed John to work for him into some of Jake's professional websites and promised him lots of money. But John was not interested and didn't give a shit to this offer, and IMHO he was right.<br /><br />- "What?!" thought Jake, "this kid refuses to work for me? I will force him to!", and so he started harassing the boy. Saying "No!" to Jack is not an option, you see. Jake get obsessed by John and even with all the work he has to do to manage his business, his websites and his money, he spends now a lot of time harassing a 20yo boy playing with a webcam. Jake's hackers are seeking where John is; Jake thinks it's his mission to find him and force him to get into Jake's business, against John's will. Jake doesn't care about consent. <br /><br />- Jake claims he believes John is under 16 yo. But he anyway wants him to work for him into professional porn.<br /><br />- Some friends of Jake are helping him into this harassment campaign. Some are sharing some connection with Jake, others are just jerks who enjoy to make people suffer and are happy to find a victim, some are fighting against John for some doubtful ethical reasons (like: selling your own vids is BAD) or because they don't like the amateur quality of John's videos. Some are participating to the harassment because they believe the rumors created by the bullies (John CAN'T be a real person). This becomes a passion for some people, who are spending lots of time insulting John or faking to be him while they just could watch something else.<br /><br />So what's the point? The point is that Jake is just acting as a pimp harassing an independent boy to force him to work for him. The others are supporting stupidly this action, and they will certainly continue, as they are hearthless and don't care about the real people who are on the videos. They just see the product, not the person.<br /><br />This situation is a threat to all people who are making and sharing their own videos. It means that some day Jake or some other pimp could come and say them "You must work for me!" and harass them if they say no.<br /><br />Maybe a solution to this issue could be allowing members to remove comments from their videos and to block unfriendly users. Would not remove the problem, but it would help.<br /><br />I just hope the story has a happy ending, but I didn't find it right now.</p>