More than ever am I glad I didn’t accept an offer to blog for SuicideGirls back in the day, if this latest example of SG’s business decisions is true. I need to investigate further before I can write a good column on this, but here’s one piece of the story:

altporn.net: Apneatic: Apnea Explains Lithium Picnic Site Closure Due to SuicideGirls Lawsuit NSFW
SG is now making the preposterous claims that they taught [Philip Warner, aka Lithium Picnic] photography and web design and they are going after the profits of my site. His SG contract very specifically defined single girl sites like mine as an exception to the competition rules but now SG claims my single girl site is a competitor to their empire of over one thousand girls, books, DVDs, radio shows, merchandise, a magazine and television syndication. Entering into litigation over this is costly and takes a lot of time, thousands of dollars a month. SG knows they can outspend him 100 times over and this is likely more about breaking him and locking him into a permanent non-compete than any truth about their claims.

If they really want to lock him into non-compete, they need to pay him enough to be theirs exclusively. And if they don’t want to pay for that value, they should leverage Philip’s growing reputation and fame as a photographer, so they can market their sets using his name.

Here’s more information: AltPorn.net Interview with Apnea NSFW

Many thanks to reader Will for bringing this to my attention.