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May 31st, 10:59 AM
Europe sticks up two fingers at ICANN budget
The proposed 2004-5 budget for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has hit a snag - the rest of the world is refusing to pay its share of the bill. ICANN last week proposed a budget of $15.8m for next year, nearly twice as much as its current annual ...
May 31st, 10:58 AM
Nebraska Retail Owner Pleads Guilty to Obscenity Charge
John Haltom has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor obscenity charge in order to avoid the possibility of a year in jail. Haltom, the owner of the Doctor John’s adult novelty chain, was charged with a misdemeanor count of distributing obscene material. He was fined $1,000, plus court ...
May 31st, 10:58 AM
Larry Flynt, Gardena's Civic Treasure
City Hall is smitten with the smut peddler. In the South Bay suburb of Gardena, Hustler magazine Publisher Larry Flynt has finally found a place where civic leaders embrace him, law enforcement professionals salute him and even the tax collectors cut him some slack. Flynt's trade in Gardena is poker, not porn, and he mostly resists any ...
May 29th, 01:17 PM
Corporate America Is Profiting From Porn — Quietly
Pornography has grown into a $10 billion business — bigger than the NFL, the NBA and Major League Baseball combined — and some of the nation's best-known corporations are quietly sharing the profits. Companies like Time Warner and Marriott earn revenue by piping adult movies into Americans' homes and hotel rooms, but you ...
May 29th, 01:17 PM
Three Men Indicted on Federal Obscenity Charges
A federal grand jury has indicted three men on obscenity charges for allegedly selling rape and sexual torture videos over the Internet. Federal authorities are seeking the extradition of two of the men from Canada, including Tom Gartman, a notorious spammer, who is also ...
May 29th, 01:16 PM
Cardservice Int'l Dropping Adult
Merchant account payment processor Cardservice International has confirmed it will no longer accept adult Internet businesses as clients. After speculation that cropped up earlier this week, CSI confirmed to AVNOnline.com that they will no longer accept Websites that include adult content and will be severing business ties altogether with such sites ...
May 29th, 01:15 PM
Dot-xxx could help to filter porn spam
A new batch of proposed Internet domains could make it easier to fight spam and filter out smut, but the head of the regulatory body that will usher them sees even broader possibilities. "Maybe it's the Klingons, where the Klingon association plays a role in keeping the identity of Klingons," said ICANN President Paul Twomey in ...
May 29th, 01:14 PM
EHarmony.com patents matchmaking formula
Chemistry? Forget it. Psychology and statistics best determine whether two people will have a happy marriage. At least so claims an online dating service that's patented its matchmaking formula.EHarmony.com Inc. this month received U.S. Patent No. 6,735,568, which describes a "method and system for identifying people who are ...
May 29th, 01:14 PM
US Government reads emails
Nearly a year after Congress shut down a programme that would have allowed the Pentagon to data mine to read emails, other spy schemes that do the same thing are alive and well and sniffing. According to a congressional report obtained by Reuters, 36 of the government's 199 "data mining" efforts collect personal information from ...
May 27th, 12:49 PM
Sureflix Launches New Gay VOD Cinema Affiliate Program
Sureflix Digital Distribution, the fastest growing gay video-on-demand provider on the Internet, proudly announced today the launch of their new affiliate program - Build Your Own Cinema accessed through http://sureflix.com. In less than an hour webmasters are able to construct a highly tailored VOD cinema that fits seamlessly into the branding of ...
May 27th, 12:45 PM
FulcrumStudio.com addresses webmaster concerns
After launching last week, FulcrumStudio.com was inundated with emails of congratulations. All of which were greatly appreciated. Although most webmasters were very impressed with what FulcrumStudio.com represents, there were a few that were concerned with the amount of content displayed and available on the ...
May 27th, 12:31 PM
Obscenity Charges Filed Against Louisiana Retailer
The owners of the adult retail store The Bad Kitty have been charged with breaking local obscenity laws, one year after police officers seized 233 DVDs from the store. The only DVDs known to be involved in the charges are Snoop Dogg’s Hustlaz: Diary of a Pimp, the winner of the AVN Award for 2004’s Top Selling Tape of the ...
May 27th, 12:31 PM
Acacia Technologies Licenses Digital Media Transmission Technology to Capella Education Company
Acacia Research Corporation announced today that its Acacia Technologies Group has entered into a License Agreement for its Digital Media Transmission ("DMT") technology with Capella Education Company. Capella Education Company is the parent corporation of Capella University, an online academic institution that ...
May 26th, 12:03 PM
Guess What – E-Porn Still "Undermines Decent Society"
This may come as a bit of a shock, of course, but it seems porn Internet and otherwise continues to undermine decent society. Says who? Says a former San Fernando Valley area probation officer and social worker, who believes the HIV crisis that hit the adult industry earlier this year shows adult entertainment is still prolific enough – and thus ...
May 26th, 12:02 PM
Web site founder adjusts to life in Rancho Santa Fe
Web entrepreneur Gary Kremen found out early how difficult it is to make sex click on the Internet. It took nine years, and $4.5 million spent on legal fees, for Kremen to emerge victorious in a long-running battle to re-establish his right to own one of the Web's most easily remembered ...
May 26th, 11:40 AM
FacialCash releases version 2
FacialCash V2 provides New Tools, Cascading Billing, Hosted Galleries, Free Ray Guhn Content, Galleries of the Day, Pictures of the Day. After months of upgrades, FacialCash.com, the only affiliate program dedicated solely to wild gangbangs ending in messy group facials is now providing affiliates with powerful new ...
May 25th, 01:45 PM
FatBro.com officially launched
FatBro.com is a new protection service for adult webmasters. It is a protection solution that cannot be bypassed like many blocking scripts that rely on IP address verification. Fat Bro is a mixture of script scanning and indexing of over 1200 hacker communities and human monitoring of the same. It will protect you against ...
May 25th, 01:44 PM
Guess What – E-Porn Still "Undermines Decent Society"
This may come as a bit of a shock, of course, but it seems porn Internet and otherwise continues to undermine decent society. Says who? Says a former San Fernando Valley area probation officer and social worker, who believes the HIV crisis that hit the adult industry earlier this year shows adult entertainment is ...
May 25th, 01:44 PM
VeriSign buys Germany's Jamba for $273 million
Internet and telecom company VeriSign on Monday said it has agreed to acquire Germany's Jamba, a wireless content provider, for $273 million in cash and VeriSign stock. VeriSign said the deal could have incremental impact to its June-ending second quarter, when the deal is expected to close, and would be neutral to ...
May 24th, 01:35 PM
When is a new idea 'new'?
Critics of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are gathering forces for a campaign against what they say is the agency's tendency to issue patents for obvious ideas. Complaints about how USPTO officials manage patents in new fields such as biotechnology are coming not only from public interest groups. The National Academy of Sciences' recent ...
May 24th, 01:35 PM
ICANN grows up at last
If you wondered what the price would be for a more professionally-run Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), you can see it now in black-and-white figures. The Internet-overseeing organisation has released its proposed budget for 2004-5 and it is almost double taht of last year. Administering the Internet next year will apparently cost ...
May 24th, 01:34 PM
Worldwide gateway to the tawdry spirit of our time
Wherever you may roam on the worldwide web you're never more than a few degrees of separation from pornography. You don't really have to look for it. Just leave it to the mouse; within a few clicks you will have joined the 70 million people who log on to an adult site every ...
May 23rd, 03:41 PM
CyberAge launches new movie paysite
CyberAge is pleased to announce the launch of CyberAgeTV.com. Movie sites convert like mad and new movie sites convert even better. With a 60% payout on new sales and all rebills, CyberAgeTV.com will not just give you a quick burst of sales, but a long-term income as well. CyberAgeTV.com is available to promote through the NastyCash program ...
May 23rd, 03:09 PM
The dot-com revival begins in the Midwest
Some of the Midwest's finest Internet survivors tried their hand at a full-on dot-com revival yesterday during a conference here. The Dot-Com Boomerang event, organized by ePrairie.com, gave close to fifteen companies five minutes each to explain how they made it through the darkest part of the cave and out into the light. While the tales ...
May 23rd, 03:08 PM
Perverts, Voyeurs & Peeping Toms: A short history of the Republican Party
Remember back when the Massa got to sleep with the slaves?" In the modern Republican party, the roots of its members' addiction to hidden sexual perversity stretch far back in time. "But President Clinton had sex with that woman!" the Republicans cried. And then they spent almost a billion dollars trying to get off on ...
May 22nd, 03:39 PM
Fearful strip clubs register voters to oust President Bush
Strip club owners are putting a little bada-bing in the presidential campaign by asking patrons to turn their eyes away from the stage for a moment to fill out a voter registration form -- and then vote against President Bush. ''It's not to say our industry loves John Kerry or anything like that,'' said Dave Manack, associate publisher of ...
May 22nd, 03:39 PM
New Bill Allows Parents to Sue Over Entertainment Their Children Watch
A new bill introduced in Congress last month wants to allow parents to take the law into their own hands every time their children are exposed to material that they feel is objectionable for minors to see, hear or read. The Parent’s Empowerment Act, introduced by Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-California) on April 28, would let minors, or parents on ...
May 22nd, 03:38 PM
Libraries may get filters for kids, cards for adults
Salt Lake City's Library Board may add Internet filters to computers in the children's sections of its six libraries and issue cards to adults so they could decide whether they want filters when they access computers. Responding to concerns of some parents and legislators who fear children could be exposed to pornography at public ...
May 21st, 12:40 PM
TopBucks debuts new anal and gay reality sites
TopBucks has added two new sites to its portfolio of popular reality sites: the anal-themed HerFirstAnalSex.com, and TopBucks' third gay reality site, GayBlindDateSex.com. As with all TopBucks reality sites, the two latest additions feature exclusive content, weekly updates, and access to an enormous selection of plug-in content to supplement the exclusive reality content that is the main focus of the site ...
May 21st, 12:39 PM
Acacia Markman Judge May Decide Class Action Status, Tentative Patent Terms in July
Whether Acacia Research Corp.'s streaming media patent litigation against the adult Internet becomes a class-action suit could be decided by a federal judge in July, at which time the judge may also issue tentative rulings on construction of some of the patent claim terms the sides discussed in court this week. Wrapping a two-day hearing in the ongoing ...
May 21st, 12:38 PM
Human Element Key To Acacia Challenge?
Whether or not a human operator can be considered part of a transmission system could prove a key to whether Acacia Research Corp.'s streaming media patent claims endure a legal challenge by several adult Internet companies. So said attorney John Singer of the challengers' team after court May 18, day one of ...
May 20th, 09:52 AM
Announcing the Launch of FulcrumStudio.com
After weeks of testing FulcrumStudio.com opens its doors to all webmasters looking for a new site to make money with. The owners of Fulcrumstudio.com have spent over a year creating, what they are sure to be, the greatest site of hardcore photography and ...
May 20th, 09:51 AM
UK adult star Cathy Barry launches store
The UK's hottest adult star, Cathy Barry has launched her own adult store, with 1000+ lines of sexy toys and adult lingerie. The website, based at www.cathybarryadultstore.com shows photos of Cathy modelling her lingerie and she's also ...
May 20th, 09:50 AM
Production Companies and Talent Agents Discuss Adult Safety Issues
Just as a talent only meeting held on Tuesday continued the discussion of how the adult industry can operate as safely as possible, representatives of talent agencies and production companies met on Monday to help develop solutions for what is undoubtedly the common good of ...
May 19th, 04:05 PM
Federal Prosecutor Discusses Justice Department's Obscenity Strategy
A federal prosecutor revealed that there are currently 17 federal grand juries considering obscenity indictments across the country, and 50 more cases are being considered. Mary Beth Buchanan, the U.S. Attorney prosecuting the 10-count indictment against Extreme Associates, Rob Zicari, and Janet Romano on ...
May 19th, 04:04 PM
ICANN wins first round against VeriSign
ICANN, the body responsible for the internet’s domain naming system, has won the first round in a legal action filed against it by domain registry VeriSign over alleged interference with the launch of a new VeriSign service, according to media reports. In his ruling, issued yesterday, US District Judge A Howard Matz dismissed ...
May 19th, 04:03 PM
Shock-radio jock Howard Stern remains 'King of All Fines'
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed $4.5 million in fines for broadcast indecency since 1990, with more than half the total assessed to stations that aired shock-radio pioneer Howard Stern. Yesterday, the FCC proposed a $495,000 fine against six Clear Channel Communications Corp. stations that aired ...
May 18th, 04:51 PM
'Claim Terms' To Highlight Next Acacia Hearing
Ten element claim terms – individual functions and devices believed pertinent to Acacia Research Corp.'s streaming media patent claims – will highlight the next round of the so-called Markman pre-trial determination process in the litigation between Acacia and several adult ...
May 18th, 04:50 PM
Top Adult Movie Maker Resumes Production
The nation's top adult movie maker has resumed production nearly a month after five performers were infected with HIV, shutting down much of the multibillion-dollar porn industry. Vivid Entertainment Group started filming again Saturday, said the company's ...
May 18th, 04:46 PM
Bosses 'liable for Web porn'
Workers misusing office computers could get their bosses jailed for up to ten years, legal experts warned yesterday. Many firms do not realise that the onus is on them to ensure staff use their computers responsibly. If they do not, bosses face being charged with neglect in allowing the storage or making of illegal ...
May 17th, 03:14 PM
Up-skirt law to destroy mobile phone biz?
How can you sell a 3G phone without mentioning its video-phone capabilities? And can you sell a 3G phone without a video camera? Well, if you sell phones, you may have to. It's always been something of an in joke with those who know the Japanese market for miniature cameras. You know that they are described as ...
May 17th, 03:13 PM
Search Engine Optimization Vs Search Engine Submission
Search engine optimization and search engine submission have been a vital part of doing business online for several years now, but they are still shrouded in myth and confusion. It's our goal here at eTrafficJams.com to clear the fog and help you get higher rankings, more traffic and better sales figures for your ...
May 17th, 03:13 PM
EU software patent debate continues
The European Council of Ministers will meet tomorrow afternoon to decide the fate of the EU Directive on software patentability, but instead of merely waving the directive through, there is to be a more thorough discussion of the issue. The directive is the penultimate item on the agenda, which means that at least one ...
May 16th, 01:02 PM
Is Net porn the key?
Easy and unrestricted access to violent pornography on the Internet may be linked to the rise in attempted child abductions, behavioural scientists say. The warning follows revelations by The Sunday Mail that more than 20 predators have abducted or attempted to abduct ...
May 16th, 12:55 PM
Feds Announce P2P Child Porn Crackdown
One week after a U.S. House subcommittee held hearings on the ties, actual or alleged, between peer-to-peer file-swapping networks and porn on the Internet, the federal government announced a crackdown aimed at fighting child porn passing through the P2P networks. “No one should be able to avoid prosecution for contributing to the ...
May 16th, 12:53 PM
Utah part of national child porn crackdown
Known primarily as sites to download a song or even a movie, file sharing programs have become havens for sex criminals searching for child pornography. A consortium of federal and state law enforcement agencies -- including Utah's Internet Crimes Against Children task force (ICAC) -- are attempting to curtail this ...
May 16th, 12:41 PM
Canada eyes world treaty to deal with spammers
Countries may need international treaties to deal with large-scale computer spam, because individual governments cannot deal with the problem by themselves, Canada said on Tuesday. Canada heads the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development's working party on information security and ...
May 16th, 12:40 PM
Porn site takes over local Web address
The normally mild-mannered owner of Vic's Aircraft Sales and ballroom dance instructor just learned his Web site, www.vicsaircraft.com, was pirated by a purveyor of porn. Gelking said he "slipped up" and forgot to reregister the site. Someone took notice, reregistered the site and placed adult ...
May 16th, 12:40 PM
Are you ready for Bendable Computing?
Thin, bendable computers are coming - and they present a unique challenge for human interface designers. Flexible components have already been demonstrated, such as OLED displays that could be produced as thin as 0.2 mm. But the tricky part is finding a new interaction model that makes the most of the ...
May 14th, 11:47 AM
Ron Jeremy Gets Saucy
Long-time adult film and television star, Ron Jeremy, along with TripleXhotsauce have developed there first line of specialty hot sauce available to the general public. Manufactured and distributed by TripleXhotsauce, the six-ounce bottle with Jeremy's likeness will be available nationally at ...
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