Hang on a minute....

Someone comes onto a free forum and asks for people to work for nothing, preferably using their own equipment, on an unknown project, on the off-chance that maybe, possibly, if the project's a success, might earn some money out of it. No wonder lots of questions were asked.

Unfortunately there are lots and lots of people out there who haven't thought their projects through and rely on the (unpaid) efforts of others to get it done. I'm not saying that Martin is one of these, but we have to be sure...don't we?

There will be plenty of mugs... I mean wanabees.. I mean "newcomers" who are so desperate to do "glamour" work that they'll work for nothing.
As for the insulting comments about amateurs that they "are more professional than most of the pro's we worked with and certainly not as pretentious". I read that to mean that professionals and semi-professionals can smell a bullsh*tter a mile off and therefore Martin can only find amateurs to work for him. As the regulars know, I work regularly in the adult satellite sector and have always found that genuine producers prefer to use professionals who know what they're doing, that's why we're still in work.

If this were a genuine opportunity then he'd be up-front about the whole deal, giving facts and figures and not hiding behind the phrase "copyright infringements " which, as any experienced producer knows, is another way of saying " I've got an idea but since I'm not sure I can sell it I don't want to let anyone know what it is in case they do it better."

If this in an idea to "audition" actreses for a role in an adult movie, film the auditions and then use the material a la "Pop Idol" as a series. Then that' s a scam older than video, been done loads of times, and in the end neither the hopefulls or the crew make money.

Where he was right is that he has come to a forum where a lot of people have experience, know a lot, don't need to work for free and are very wary of producers looking for people to work for nothing.
What he hasn't realised is that if he were genuine and had a serious, well planned, and commercially viable project, he could find all the experienced crew, editors and prouduction staff he could ever need on this forum. Win some, lose some.