Garion Hall of G Media is in heap ’em big trouble: Director quizzed over production of graphic movies, Keith Moor, Herald Sun, June 16, 2009:
POLICE raided a Melbourne porn business that makes up to $10 million a year from allegedly illegal activities.
Detectives raided five premises as part of Operation Refuge, seizing computers containing footage of women allegedly performing explicit sex acts, which are illegal to produce in Victoria.
They are also investigating allegations that some of the models on the porn company’s website are under age.
Police raided the Fitzroy head office of G Media – which runs a porn website – in the early morning raids, and arrested its director, Garion Hall, at his Heidelberg home.
Two storage facilities and another office were part of the Fitzroy raids.
Computer records and explicit DVDs allegedly containing material too graphic to be legally made in Victoria were among items seized.
It is illegal to profit from making porn films in Victoria.
It is believed Mr Hall denies any wrongdoing…
The Garion Hall Story
At the age of eighteen Ainsley Hall [NSFW] (along with Ainsley Verra) left school. Some years later, denied the opportunity to use his talents in the service of his country under his real name, as Ainsley Garion Hall Verra Abby Winters he began to operate what he called ‘The Operation’. He would masturbate and then promise Internet users access to images of him doing so if they paid him money. Four months later, he started another operation called ‘The Other Operation’. In this racket he employed young women to masturbate on camera, videos he uploaded to the Internet and made available for free. One month later he hit upon ‘The Other Other Operation’. In this Garion hired young women to pose nude and to perform in pornographic videos, to which Internet users were promised access — if they paid. This, for Garion, was the turning point…
I often wondered where all those posters I see on lampposts advertising jobs for alt.chicks led. Now I know. To Fitzroy, G Media, Garion Hall & Abby Winters / GMBill.com.
Debate and disco : Porn king pwned, Bridgit Gread, GrodsCorp (Warning: contains filth) | Our Victorian morals, Jeremy Sear, An Onymous Left (see also : Animalehs) | Australian Girls with Pubic Hair Reclaim Amateur Porn: Why AbbyWinters.com says yes to healthy bodies and no to boob jobs and six-inch heels, Bonnie Ruberg, Village Voice, May 15, 2008.
About abbywinters.com
“I just want to see hot amateur models presented as they really are: hot amateur models.” So thought Abby [sic] to herself back in 2000. But everywhere she looked she saw girls glammed up to look like “porn stars”. So she decided to take matters into her own hands and do it right. Her models are fresh, unspoiled, beautiful and healthy. Her photography is breath-taking, detailed, well-lit and – above all – SEXY.
Nearly seven [sic] years later, abbywinters.com is still true to Abby’s inspiration. It features healthy, joyful Australian girls having fun and being naked. Nothing is faked: real girls, real settings, real sex, real orgasms.
Yes, real orgasms! Finally!
Victorian Bushfire Fundraiser From Leading Australian Adult Web Site, Abbywinters
G Media, owner of Australian erotic Web site abbywinters.com, is proud to announce a donation of $50,000 to the Red Cross Victoria Bushfire Appeal in support of the victims of Black Saturday. Past and current members have also been encouraged to donate to the appeal, with every donation being matched dollar-for-dollar by G Media…
See also : Hard-working, legitimate businessmen under persecution by The Age (June 14, 2009).
For the latest on the Abby Winters debacle see http://indolentdandy.net/fitzroyalty/2009/06/18/the-politics-of-porn-comment-from-inside-the-melbourne-adult-content-industry/
cheerz sir fitz.
I think it is unlikely that this outfit knowingly used any 17-year old, and for the soundest of reasons: it is a totally unnecessary risk, since substantial profits can more easily and safely be accrued by making use of the many adults who will engage in this bit of sex-work (or whatever you want to call it). Since websites such as this have performers almost always performing either solo or with someone they know and choose – and since performers have greater control of their activities than do people in almost all other sex-work economies, within the frame of the site’s marketing strategy – those producing such material have absolutely no trouble finding people to participate in two or three hours of work for a few hundred bucks.
Tabloid-y media may want to mobilize outrage and moralizing law’n’order sentiment against those involved, but the results are unlikely to be to the benefit of any of those performing.
But hey, maybe these sites are secretly part of satanic child-porn sex-slavery rackets run by foreign people.