Back in '02 I started a project to create automated digital doubles of anyone. I was a developer working in feature film VFX, and had been doing actor replaceme

Back in '02 I started a project to create automated digital doubles of anyone. I was a developer working in feature film VFX, and had been doing actor replacements as a specialty. Long story short, by '08 I had an MBA, a global patent on automated actor replacement in filmed media, a team with Academy Awards for VFX, and working feature film quality technology. However, '08 was the financial meltdown, and at this time nobody had ever heard of automated digital doubles or automated actor replacements, so my efforts to raise financing were met with dismay, disbelief, and ridicule. Demonstrating by creating digital doubles of VCs on the spot, I get accused of fraud. So bizarre. Slowly I manage to get traction with angels, only to have one of them "realize what this could do with porn" and they'd fixate on porn. No amount of debate would convince them that such a company would be a lawsuit engine, be hated by half the human population, and yet have no stable revenue because porn is extremely unstable, as well as filled with flat out criminal personalities. I end up disbanding that angel group and try again. Two more times I manage to get an angel investor team formed, only to have one of them fixate on porn and then all of them follow. The debates I was in felt like arguing with Lucifer. While traveling through this arena, I met others pursuing actual porn startups. There is investment money there, if one want to have partners like Flint Publications, or Penthouse. They have tech groups, believe it or not. I was trying to create traditional video and print advertising, but personalized, with you and your family/friends in the ads delivered to you. It is still a viable concept, and I still have working feature film quality technology to create them. However, every time I dip my toes back into this area I encounter irrational pornographic business fantasies, and I just do not want to play that game.