Score one for the industry and the Free Speech Coalition! The AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s misguided attempt to require porn performers to wear condoms has hit a major snag. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has dismissed their petition saying that the government knows how to deal with public health issues and that the use
Online piracy had gotten the French government so edgy that they resort to exercising some tough love to its citizens. If individuals are caught downloading and patronizing pirated material, they will have their time in court to be reprimanded, or, worse, sentenced for jail time.
Tom Hymes doesn't outwardly editorialize but he can sneak in his two cents' worth in his article about China's wholesale shuttering of porn sites in Chinese cyberspace. So far, their handiwork had led them to close down 13,000 porn sites and arrested 5,400 suspects related to porn in China.
Sometimes we tend to forget that the porn industry doesn't just operate in the US and Europe. There are also porn producers in far off countries like the Philippines and Vietnam. Though they operate on the same set of rules, they also have to contend with more stringent moralistic anti-porn laws. What happened to its owners would not happen to anyone here in the US.
You know what the problem with legislation in governments? They create laws that sound good in paper but never good in reality. Take this new anti-porn laws in Indonesia, for instance. The law supposedly persecutes any form of pornographic material. In order to put teeth into the law, they have arrested a bunch of exotic dancers and the club manager where they work.
The American Civil Liberties Union, long an ally of the adult industry as far as First Amendment issues are concerned, has filed an amicus ("friend of the court") brief in Free Speech Coalition's bid to overturn 18 U.S.C. §§2257 and 2257A, the federal recordkeeping and labeling laws.
Rhett Pardon writes in his article that the cracks in AVN are showing and without too many words, we all have seen it coming. What's more, the situation will worsen as months pass by. If you may ask why we need to give a fuck about them? Well for starters, AVN gives out one of the biggest and more relevant trade shows in the industry. They have done so for many years.
Okay, you know how some domain people shamelessly exploit celebrity names to use as a marketing ploy (or as a scam to discredit the celebrity)? Well, in this case, the situation is reversed. But instead of a domain company, it's a company that encourages marital infidelity. And the person involved is a D-list Hollywood actress. Juicy enough for you?
Hadopi, the French agency tasked to enforce the country's ludicrous "three-strikes" anti-piracy law, recently received some unwanted attention for using copyrighted typeface due to an "oversight".
Rhett Pardon feels the remorse of RedTube as their woes continue in his article. Detectives have found the IP address where the hacker redirected RedTube traffic last July. The bad news? The owner of the computer wasn't the perp. According to reports, the real culprit downloaded malicious software in the computer and used it to pluck the DNS of RedTube to divert its traffic elsewhere.
