There are several reasons why people steal SF material. The primary reason is "because they can". Let's not BS each other. You screw around with your electric meter to get free electric and when they catch you, you're probably going to jail. Maybe you'll get probabtion from a judge if it's your first offense, but someone is going to screw with your life bigtime. You steal a smoking clip from Fran at Smoking Sweeties (which hundreds and hundreds of people have done) and what's gonna happen to you?

Getting closer to the heart of the matter, one other primary reason people steal rather than buy is that we're talking about people who are so cheap they lack the manhood to step up to the pump and get their wallet out. Fran sells clips for as little as .99 euro and $1.35 (US). Plus, a good part of the time he runs a 3 for 2 deal. That's a 33.3% discount. How cheap does a scumbag have to be to be unwilling to part with a buck thirty-five?

Please. Give us your honest opinion on that one.

Couple other questions.

You said you shot your own footage dating back to '91. Is any of it worth anything to another smoking fetishist. Would you be willing to sell it? Or would it be more appropriate to give it away? How would you look at things if you were a SF producer. Would you think what yourmaterial was "worthless" because most people were only willing to steal it, not buy it.

You see, it's rather troubling for us to read your remarks insinuating that the reason that people are stealing SF material falls on the producers' shoulders. Had you said the reason people aren't "buying" is on the producers, you'd be entitled to that opinion. But to say the producers are responsible for the fact that people have decided to steal rather than buy is pure horse sh-t.

Think about how ridiculous that remark is.