Adult entertainment, already huge overseas, aims for US cellphones
Reuters Feb 1, 08 12:30 PM CST
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Porn is setting its sights on the small screen—the really small screen. As both mobile phone screens and internet capabilities expand, pornographers see American opportunity in a trend that's already sweeping Europe, Reuters reports. “It will be impossible to stop the adult business exploitation of mobile entertainment,” one industry lawyer predicts.
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Ministry says 'young minds' are being 'perverted'
Associated Press Jan 23, 08 4:00 PM CST
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China took down 44,000 porn websites last year, arrested 868 people, and penalized 2,000 others. The Public Security Ministry said today that Internet pornography has “perverted China’s young minds,” the AP reports. Porn and paid sex are illegal in almost all forms in the country; the crackdown involved the seizure of cash and film equipment.
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Cheaper HD DVD production counters Blu-Ray's victories
DailyTech Jan 17, 08 6:01 PM CST
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The adult film industry cast a deciding vote in the VHS/Betamax tape format wars of the ‘80s, and porn may yet influence the hi-def contest between Blu-Ray and HD DVD, Daily Tech writes. But currently the industry is split between the popular view that the U.S. film industry is shifting toward a Blu-Ray, and the economic advantages they still find in HD DVD.
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Making erotica accessible to all is aim of new production company, Wired finds
Wired Jan 4, 08 8:47 PM CST
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Unlike mainstream movies and TV, there’s no closed-captioning for pornography—not that too many people, notes Wired 's Regina Lynn, pay much attention to porn dialogue anyway. Enter Deaf Bunny, the first deaf-owned, deaf-staffed adult film company, which uses subtitles, sign language, and even cartoonish thought bubbles, in addition to deaf, American Sign Language-fluent actors, to make sure everyone can understand those complex plot lines.
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Effort to harvest addresses means trouble for sex industry
Washington Post Jan 4, 08 4:00 PM CST
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Bad news, porn lovers (you can admit it): Hackers have broken into a service used by hundreds of porn sites, stealing the personal info of potentially tens of thousands of porn enthusiasts, the Washington Post reports. It appears hackers wanted only e-mail addresses for spam use, but the leak could still hurt the industry if surfers become worried about their anonymity.
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Emily Sander, 18, found dead in roadside ditch last month in Kansas
Wichita Eagle Dec 19, 07 3:13 PM CST
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The suspected killer of community-college student and internet porn star Emily Sander, 18, was arrested today in Mexico, the Wichita Eagle reports. Israel Mireles, 24, is being held in Melchor Muzquiz until he is extradited, the AP reports. Sander turned up dead along a Kansas road after reportedly leaving an El Dorado bar with Mireles on Nov. 24.
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Copyrighted raunch showing up on YouTube knockoff
Los Angeles Times Dec 11, 07 6:49 AM CST
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Los Angeles porn producer Vivid Entertainment Group is suing one of the many pornographic knockoffs of YouTube, claiming copyright infringement, reports the Los Angeles Times . The action is similar to Viacom’s suit against YouTube last year, which claimed the video-sharing site isn’t doing enough to prevent users from sharing copyrighted material.
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Bibliothèque Nationale showcases 2 centuries of porn for first time
Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 4, 07 11:15 AM CST
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Turns out the auguste Bibliothèque Nationale has one of the world's biggest official collections of pornographic books and prints, and today it's going on view—to those over 16—for the first time in 170 years. The erotic works, which have been hidden away in a section called l'enfer , or Hell, include works by respected authors like Voltaire and Apollinaire alongside pulp fiction and graphic depictions of sex.
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Police fear foul play
in Kansas teen's disappearance
Associated Press Nov 29, 07 4:42 AM CST
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A missing Kansas college student apparently led a secret life as an internet porn star, according to police who suspect foul play in her disappearance. Emily Sander, 18, disappeared last week after leaving a bar outside Wichita with a man whose motel room was later found trashed and covered in blood. Sander's brother told police that his sister ran a pornographic web site featuring nude pictures of herself under the name Zoey Zane.
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Portfolio Oct 21, 07 11:17 AM CDT
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As with so many other industries, porn is under assault from the changes wrought by the internet. Claire Hoffman chronicles the challenge a free file-sharing porn site, YouPorn, poses to adult industry goliath, Vivid Entertainment, in Portfolio magazine. The ready availability of pornography on the internet has sent DVD sales, the bedrock of the industry, into free-fall.
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Employers block sites
but problem persists
USA Today Oct 18, 07 2:41 PM CDT
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It's been a decade since the advent of online pornography started driving down productivity in offices, but new portable technologies have made it easier than ever to beat firewalls and check out naughty pictures on the job. USA Today writes that while 65% of American companies use porn-blocking software, it's still coming into the workplace—on laptops, cell phones, and other employee-owned machines.
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Cuomo probe uncovers sex solicitation and poor response from company
ComputerWorld Sep 25, 07 3:49 AM CDT
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The online social networking site Facebook is becoming a hangout for sexual predators hunting young victims, according to an undercover investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Investigators pretending to be teenagers on Facebook were repeatedly solicited by adult sexual predators, reports Computerworld . But when complaints were filed with Facebook, the company usually ignored them, probers found.
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FBI focuses on extreme forms of porn, leaves $13B industry intact
Reuters Sep 19, 07 7:28 PM CDT
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Bush's vow to clamp down on porn has hardly dented the $13 billion industry, Reuters reports. Activists grumble that Bush hasn't followed in Reagan's footsteps and put distributors out of business - but pressing problems, like terrorism, have distracted the White House, and the FBI is prosecuting more extreme forms of pornography.
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Retiring Jameson removes world-famous double-D implants
for mental uplift
Us Magazine Aug 24, 07 10:21 AM CDT
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Relieved porn queen Jenna Jameson has had her breast implants removed to mark her retirement from the industry. "When I had implants, I felt uncomfortable," the 33-year-old multimillionare tells Us. "I would be shy at the beach. So I thought, 'Why don't I be who I am and get my real ones back?'"
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DoJ wants records of birthdates to keep minors out of skin flicks
New York Post Aug 20, 07 7:25 AM CDT
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The Justice Department wants to catalog America's porn collection, but not for the reason you might think—the feds say they're making sure minors aren't finding their way onto adult-film sets. The anti-exploitation move would require producers to turn over actors' real names, stage names, and birthdates, the New York Post reports.
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"Benefactors" pay to view naked photos and chat with women wanting implants
Yahoo! Aug 17, 07 2:51 PM CDT
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Web entrepreneur Jason Grunstra says his site is just a service connecting people with similar interests. The interest happens to be breasts, and the site connects those who like to look at them with those who'd like to have theirs enlarged. Women upload pictures of themselves, hoping to attract “benefactors” who will contribute to the cost of their implants, in exchange for a peek at the goods, Yahoo reports.
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