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‘bareback’ videos that featured actors without condoms. Industry insiders say this market—though still a niche—is growing in popularity.” (39)
    Titan Media, one of the largest producers of gay porn, say they require condoms and believe it is a good policy. More and more younger models are applying to work for Titan with the interview process revealing they have done bareback videos in the past, reported Keith Webb, a Titan vice president.Webb noted “an upsurge of eighteen-, nineteen-, twenty- and twenty-one-year-olds making unprotected-sex movies, which to me is horrifying, absolutely horrifying.” (40)
    Adams believes that despite Kocis’ place as an early producer of “bareback porn,” he likely leaves no lasting legacy on the industry. He cuts through the bareback versus condom use argument in the industry. “People who hate barebacking and think it is unsafe hated Bryan,” he said. “It depends on who you talk to and their feelings on the issue.” (41)
    The same holds true for the typical age of Kocis’ performers. Use of barely-legal performers is a time-honored sub-genre of adult content, whether it’s gay or heterosexual content, Adams said. Reactions from porn customers varies. “It’s about the same as the way people who feel about bareback react—if they don’t care for younger guys, or twinks, then they don’t care for Bryan’s videos,” Adams said. (42) Kocis’ productions “were popular in that genre, that sort of twink sub-genre that he specialized in, but in the broader sense of the industry, he was not well known and was not a ‘player.’ I would say he was virtually unknown in the industry.” (43)
    Adams believes the porn industry is open to “cottage” entrepreneurs such as Kocis because of the ready availability of advanced home-computers, affordable video cameras, desktop video editing systems, and the Internet as a natural distribution network. “This is a dramatic change from the past,” Adams said. “Anyone can set up a company anywhere and be successful and mine their own small sphere of influence. They just want to do their own thing, hire boys they think are attractive, and make the films they want to make. They are not necessarily interested in being part of the porn industry at large, or moving to California or to the San Fernando Valley, which is ground zero for the industry.” (44)
    Revenue streams for Kocis’ operation were varied, Adams stated. Beyond traditional distribution deals such as the one Cobra had in place with Pacific Sun Entertainment, direct distribution to members or visitors to the Cobra website meant more money directly into Kocis pocket. “He likely had very little overhead,” Adams said. (45)

    Remembering Bryan
    In the end, those who had loved and knew Bryan Kocis best of all were heartbroken and dumbfounded by the fate that had become his life. They never knew him as the “pariah” or “predator” described by others, and they never could have imagined the terror that took his life.
    In the days immediately following his death, the Kocis family grew frustrated with increasingly sensational coverage of the case. “I think it tears them apart when they perceive public attention may be focused on things other than bringing the perpetrator to justice,” said Bryan’s former attorney, Al Flora, Jr. (46) Flora issued a statement on behalf of Kocis’ family that said, “Now is not the time for insinuating that his life is worth something less because of his involvement in a lawful adult entertainment business or his lifestyle. Our society demands that justice be achieved. Public attention and media concern should focus on the murder of this young man and the devastating impact that this crime has had on his family. No court has ever determined that Bryan Kocis was a pedophile or sexual predator subject to Megan’s Law restrictions or that he was operating an illegal Internet porn business.” (47)
    In later interviews, Bryan’s