My friend works in a Studio in St. Petersburg, Russia. According to her, there are over 100 models that work there, so we can assume it is a big and successful studio.
She works 4 days a week, for seven hours a day, and not a minute more. She has another year left on her contract.
As per her contract, she streams simultaneously on 5 sites. I know three of them are Stripchat, Chaturbate, and Live Jasmin. I do not know what the other two are.
I visit her on SC, which is her favorite. I actually met her on CB, and she asked me to switch to SC. (
@Charlie_SC 
)
Her studio exercises a huge amount of control.
I asked her once, about a different topic, if she talked to the SC admins. She told me she never deals with them directly. The studio deals with the SC admins for her.
If SC were to try and contact her about the pirate videos, they would get her studio instead.
She has no control over the Spy feature, it is written into her contract that it will stay on.
She rarely allows recordings, but if the member pays enough tokens, and she is comfortable with them, the studio will turn on the record feature. For a price.
She is NEVER nude in public chat. She does not use toys, although the studio has pressured her to do so.
She has her own "rules" for private shows. She demands that members PM her first before they go PVT so they can be informed of her rules.
She turns down a lot of requests for PVT. She still does very well.
She hates spies. I confessed to her that I spied on her once, and she was NOT impressed.
She says she always knows who is spying. A few weeks ago, I was in Pvt with her and asked her to do something a bit explicit that she had done for me before. She refused. She said she was being spied on and didn't want him to see it. Apparently, she turned him down for a Pvt show right before mine, and he started spying on mine. She told me that happens a lot, and that members she turns down often spy on her. (More on that later!)
The studio also handles a lot of her public chat. She does not have time to say hello to everyone and being that her responses look automated, they are probably employing bots.
As an example of how much control they have, I asked her two days ago if she could have knights in her room. She looked puzzled and started typing. Her eventual answer was ... "Have to ask admins".
Speaking of her answers, her English is very poor, and she uses a translator to communicate. I think the translator is a program and not a person. (I hope it is).
One reason I do not wish to tell her about the pirate videos is that I am not sure if the studio will try and punish her in some way. I realize that this is an unfounded fear, but I have a gut feeling that the repercussions for her could be negative. Part of me wants HER to know, but I am not sure if I want the studio to know, and there is no way to inform her without informing them.
The other, and more important reason, is that as
@Brit has duly pointed out, she stands a good chance of being doxxed by Camwhores.
This is difficult to explain. Russian society has less tolerant views on camming than we have in the west. Camming is viewed as being on the same level as prostitution. It is also illegal.
I don't think that
@Jaelka will mind if I quote her from another thread.
"In fact, studios get shut down quite often in Russia. Every few months (if not more often) there is news of the police breaking into the studio and taking everyone away.
As for models who work from home, without a studio, it doesn't happen very often. But there is news (e.g. one model was selling her photos/videos on the OF, and somehow the police came to her house and arrested her).
+ because of the new laws, it's getting scarier to work:
1. Inability to pay taxes to the state as it is impossible to register correctly at the tax office to file income tax returns
2. Webcam is banned in Russia. Fear that the police may come home
Attitude of citizens towards models. 3. Many people think it's something on the level of prostitution
Thank you for caring about us) I hope all will be well!"
Not only would there be a social stigma to deal with ifs she were doxxed, but the studio could also get shut down and she would have to deal with that. She could be fined, or even jailed. And then there would be the studio admins to deal with who might not think kindly of her involvement.
She has a son that she is always talking about, and a two-year-old grandson that she adores. None of her friends and family know what she does.
She considers it her secret shame. She even called herself a prostitute once in PM. This broke my heart. I am forever telling her what a good, kind, and courageous person she is. I constantly remind her of her worth, and I will not stop. She is my friend.
Needless today, the consequences of her being doxxed would be devastating. I cannot risk it.
Sorry for the essay, but I thought might be relevant to the conversation.
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