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"I have reached the conclusion, which I think is confirmed at least by negative implication in the Court's decisions since Roth and Alberts, that under the First and Fourteenth Amendments criminal laws in this area are constitutionally limited to hard-core pornography. I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." - Justice Potter Stewart in JACOBELLIS v. OHIO

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October 2007
- Federal Court Gives Porn Biz a Break
  
  Wired | Oct 25, 07 12:53 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A federal appeals court threw a wrench today into the government’s efforts to stop child porn. The Cincinnati-based court struck down a 1998 law requiring porn producers to keep records of people depicted in their materials. The Justice Department argued the law helped authorities clamp down on kiddie porn, but the appeals judges ruled 2-1 that it trampled on first amendment rights. More »
- YouPorn Is Killing the Porn Biz
  
  Portfolio | Oct 21, 07 11:17 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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. More »
- Porn Seeps Into Workplace Via Laptops and Phones
  
  USA Today | Oct 18, 07 2:41 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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. More »
- Porn Hacking Keeps CA Gov Site Down
  
  ComputerWorld | Oct 12, 07 3:26 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Transportation Authority of Marin's website, ground zero for last week's porn-related California civic website disruption, remains offline after administrators proved unable to quell the dirty bits prankery. Hidden redirections to porn sites reappeared after TAM officials persuaded US admins to stop shutting down all California websites using the ".gov" domain suffix, Computerworld reports. More »
- Hackers Add Smut to Govt. Sites
  
  PC World | Oct 7, 07 5:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hackers are wreaking havoc on government websites, and the problem isn't going away anytime soon, PC World reports. Last week, people who visited government sites in California and elsewhere were redirected to porn. The feds began pulling the plug on all of California's sites but reversed course when state officials complained of the drastic measure. No easy long-term fixes are in sight. More »
September 2007
- Porno Biz Unfazed by Neocons
  
  Reuters | Sep 19, 07 7:28 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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. More »
August 2007
- Porn Queen Downsizes
  
  Us Magazine | Aug 24, 07 10:21 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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?'" More »
- Feds to Porn Stars: What's Your Sign?
  
  New York Post | Aug 20, 07 7:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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. More »
July 2007
- Five Priciest Web Domains
  
  Forbes | Jul 8, 07 12:40 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sex.com - $12 million (2005) Porn.com - $9.5 million (2007) Business.com - $7.5 million (1999) Diamond.com - $7.5 million (2006) Beer.com - $7.0 million (1999) More »
June 2007
- Swedish Court: Let Them Have Porn
  
  Der Spiegel | Jun 29, 07 11:21 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sex offenders in Sweden can now have porn in their cells, after a ruling by Stockholm's highest administrative court. The judges told a prison in the northern part of the country that a rapist's rehabilitation was not a good enough reason to screen his reading material any more than that of other inmates. But some critics are calling the ruling downright dirty. More »
- Australia Bans Alcohol, Porn in Aboriginal Areas
  
  BBC | Jun 21, 07 9:59 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Australia will ban alcohol and pornography in some Aboriginal areas in an attempt to tackle widespread child sex abuse. A report last week blamed booze and poverty for the high levels of abuse in Aboriginal communities throughout the Northern Territory. "Exceptional measures are required to deal with an exceptionally tragic situation," says PM John Howard. More »
- Larry Flynt Hustles for Scandal
  
  Guardian (UK) | Jun 4, 07 9:34 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The porn king is trolling for scandal again: In an ad in yesterday's Washington Post , Larry Flynt asked: "Have you had a sexual encounter with a current member of the United States Congress or a high-ranking government official?" If so—and you can prove it —a million dollars awaits. More »
April 2007
- US Attorneys Fired for Being Soft on Porn
  
  Salon | Apr 19, 07 11:40 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Several of the U.S. attorneys axed by Alberto Gonzales may have been forced out because they failed to crack down on pornography, Salon reveals. Gonzales and his staff pressured attorneys to pursue adult obscenity cases, even if it meant yanking prosecutors away from, say, terrorism. Some who resisted got a pink slip. More »

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pornography
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