What kind of content constitutes bad taste for the
Internet's emperor of adult entertainment? Ken
Tipton found out last summer with Our First Time,
a web site purporting to detail the romantic life of
virginal "Mike" and "Diane," who decide they will
deflower each other live on the Internet via
streaming video. Tipton masqueraded as "Oscar
Wells," their erstwhile friend and helpful partner,
for what turned out to be a hoax. While Tipton
fooled the world (or least the wire services), he
now says he had an 18-day script written all along
that would culminate with the pair of actors
choosing abstinence.
But while Tipton hoped traffic would build over
time, he vastly underestimated the online press,
which was all too eager to crack open the hoax it
guessed was there. Traffic skyrocketed, and
Tipton's server collapsed. Enter IEG.
The Internet Entertainment Group is the largest
adult content company on the Web. Compared to
the flood of data that poured from its servers, Our
First Time was a trickle. Tipton decided to cut a
deal with IEG. That's where the lawsuit begins.
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