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 | Planet Extras! | | Industry News ... Oops! ... Reverse Pornstar on Skate Magazine's DVD Turns Out to Be the Real Thing Mix-up Leads to Lawsuits, Demise of Rejects Magazine By Robert "Just the Factoids" Burnson The now-defunct But the real hard-core stuff was in the DVD that accompanied its spring 2003 issue: video clips from an X-rated gay porno film. A rash of lawsuits followed that contributed to the demise of the Nashville-based magazine. But so far, it's unclear how the porn made it onto the DVD. The magazine claims that it was the fault of the California company that made the DVDs. But the company, Acufit, denies making the DVDs altogether. The parents of a 12-year-old Utah boy who saw the DVD have sued Barnes and Noble, which sold the magazine. In that fine American tradition of jurisprudence, the family is seeking unspecified damages as compensation for emotional pain and suffering, the cost of therapy, the loss of earnings and earning capacity, and the loss of enjoyment of life. The lawsuit is "the only way a little guy can make a corporation comment on anything in America," the family told the Deseret News of Salt Lake City. Too bad the family didn't read the sales blurb on Skates Dot Com before allowing the kid to buy the magazine: It would have been forewarned. "Reject magazine and DVD is a great buy ... the hottest in a long time!!!" the online merchant gushed. You, betcha! (Postscript: Pornstar is the name of an aggressive stunt in which, ESPN says, skaters grinds a rail with their feet on the outside of the grind plate and their toes pointing in. ... So a reserve pornstar, I guess, is just the opposite.) (posted on April 27, 2005) | Related reading: • WKRN's story about the accidental porn DVD • Planet Industry News (not usually this silly ... unfortunately!) | |||||||||
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