As the industry is weakened significantly by piracy and recession, it took its toll on one former blue chip company. In a time when DVD sales has been the bread and butter of adult entertainment companies, Peach Entertainment was king. It was a high profile, highly solvent and highly regarded company. Now, it is all a thing of the past.
Playboy has announced that it will no longer operate a DVD-producing department, as sales of DVDs are down roughly 15% from last year, and the company must cut down on expenses to return to profitability.
The much anticipated release of Pirates 2 was announced last week at a premier attended by the producers, directors, and of course, sexy pornstars appearing in the high-budget production. For anyone who want to see what their favorite pornstars look like when they appear on the red carpet, here's a slideshow from the event featuring the choicest of the lot.
Voted performer of the year 2008 and hottest girl in porn Eva Angelina is a voluptuous sex goddess. Shane’s World offers you this compilation of Eva Angelina's hottest scenes. In this two discs set, Shane’s World takes to Eva’s first girl scene, an amazing anal showdown and never before seen footage, including her first scene ever!!
The Australian government is being petitioned to dramatically revamp its existing porn laws by the adult industry through its 'Eros Association'. The association feels that the classification system used to define adult and violent related material is too confusing to the general public, and enforcement against obscenity needs to be more uniformly applied to all retailers.
Running a cottage industry of copying porn DVDs in your garage may sound profitable, but will eventually land you in jail, as this 50-year-old grandfather found out in a UK courtroom. The old fella apparently sold nearly 100 porn titles, as well as many mainstream releases, for just $4 a piece before his little operation was shut down by local law enforcement.
While it does not seem that this report resulted in any legal actions against the hotel owner, a man in Selangor (Asia) admitted in an interview that he regularly films hotel guests in specialized rooms fitted with covert surveillance cams, or maybe we should call them sex cams. He claims to make about $200-500 in up front fees and roughly 75 cents in royalties for each copy sold.
A new DVD created by attorney Dan Pepper, a well respected and experienced adult media trial lawyer, spells out all the basics one should understand before starting an adult entertainment business. The instructional DVDs cover topics ranging from corporate formation, to taxes and liabilities, to record keeping, and more.
Police in Wilmington, North Carolina stationed at the Intimate Bliss retail location for the past three days have been ordered to leave the location until a warrant is supplied to justify their presence. They are attempting to collect evidence to show that the vendor is carrying more that the allowed percentage of adult related merchandise permitted under state low.
A man in the UK who was caught in a four month sting operation selling counterfeit porn DVDs out of the back of his car was sentenced with just 200 hours of community service. In America, the RIAA would have nailed his ass to the wall with hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, even with three kids.
