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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.

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The 'After Hours Obscenity Trial' came to a magnanimous conclusion with a paltry $1000 fine levied against the store owner, and an additional $1500 fine for the store. All charges were dropped against store employees, and after all is said and done, appeals are immanent.

A trading house in the UK was raided by police last week in an effort to stamp out piracy and illegal porn distribution. Police contend that pirated DVDs and illegally traded porn content are dangers not only to the established legitimate production industry, but also fuel other crime related activities funded by the proceeds of selling the illegal materials.

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. He claims to make about $200-500 in up front fees and roughly 75 cents in royalties for each copy sold.

In porn, a slumping economy seems to bring all the rats out of the woodwork to either get back into adult webmastering or to expand their current businesses into unfamiliar territories.

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.

John Stagliano, owner of Evil Empire, was charged with several accounts of obscenity due to a few porn DVDs sold through his Evil Empire and John Stagliano Inc. In order to raise awareness and money for his cause, he solicited contributions from all his producers and actors to create a 3-DVD compilation of previously released scenes to be released July 3rd, dubbed the "Defend our Porn DVD".

Two months ago, reports of a Jimi Hendrix sex tape emerged but were quickly subverted by the Hendrix Estate’s claim that the tapes were phony. Vivid Entertainment, who bought the rights to the tape, gave the estate 60 days to produce evidence to support their claims, but no proof was submitted. Vivid has gone ahead and released the DVD for $39.99 and is available now.

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