Controversy
On October 14, 2004, Miami New Times published an investigation of the site based primarily on interviews with a woman who performed for the site to pay for an abortion. She claimed that her ex-boyfriend, the father of the child, kept all of the payment.
On November 18, 2004, the South Florida news station and website WPLG ran a video segment and article revealing the staged nature of the videos, as admitted by a Bang Bus videographer. They also ran a follow-up in which they asked police whether the activities depicted on the Bang Bus site are illegal. The police responded that they were not, because the van's windows are tinted to avoid violation of indecent exposure laws and because the women consented.
In June 2005, BangBros., Inc., was sued by the Federal Trade Commission for violations of the CAN-SPAM Act, under which e-mailers must include the warning "SEXUALLY EXPLICIT" in the subject lines of all pornographic solicitations. It was reported that BangBros. settled the lawsuit for $650,000, having been found liable despite having hired third parties to perform such promotional activities. The company allowed its operations to be monitored to ensure compliance with this provision; four other companies were similarly fined in the action for a total of $1.6 million.
As of summer 2007, Entner no longer appears in the Bangbus updates.
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