"legal" tag (sorted by SiNergy)

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

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.

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.

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".

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?

Anti-porn sentiment in the government continues to stand firm despite rallying efforts from the Free Speech Coalition and choice members of the porn industry. The US General Attorney's office has asked a federal judge to dismiss the group's challenge of the revised regulations.

Counterfeiters are the scum of the earth! They steal and make money from the blood, sweat and spunk of the performers, the producers and the marketers. It's high time these bozos get what they deserve!