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Firing Ruled Justified After Employer Finds Porn on Laptop
A court has ruled that the use of an employer's laptop to download pornographic material violates the employer's computer-use policy even where those downloads may have taken place off-premises and after working hours.
The Search Is On for Yahoo
The web portal names localized search engine technology as the future gold mine for the Internet.
County Health Calls on Federal Agency During HIV Crisis
XBiz learned Tuesday that the Los Angeles County Health Department has called upon the services of the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health to help with the HIV crisis.
Las Vegas May Be on Porn Radar
A lot of “what ifs” are facing the San Fernando Valley porn industry in light of five adult actors who tested positive for HIV in the last month. But the show must go on, and several Las Vegas porn producers believe they know the answer: Move the productions to Sin City.
Porn Bill on Wrong Track, Attorney Says
On the eve of a legislative panel beginning dialogue on how to regulate sexually transmitted diseases in the porn industry, Free Speech Coalition lawyer Jeffrey Douglas blasted a bill that could crimp the industry. “This bill has nothing good to say,” he said.
Google Founders May Net $8 Billion on Paper
The Google founders are expecting to earn $8 billion on paper with the upcoming initial public offering. By keeping 30 percent of the shares in the company, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin could be worth an estimated $4 billion or more each based on estimates of the value of the IPO.
ASACP’S Joan Irvine To Be Guest On ALYTV
ASACP is an organization helping the adult site industry make a difference in the battle against child pornography. AlyTV is a groundbreaking, weekly, hour-long online video show targeted to an audience of webmasters who work in the online adult entertainment industry.
Steve Sweet Acquitted on All Charges
Steve Sweet, president of Sweet Entertainment Group, was acquitted on all counts of obscenity by a Canadian trail judge last week. Charges stemmed from the distribution of 11 fetish videos that Canadian lawmakers deemed obscene at the time of Sweet's indictment.
Maryland Lawmakers Lean Hard on Spammers
Maryland lawmakers announced a bill right out of the gate Monday morning that outlines some of the toughest punishments for spammers so far to pass through legislator hands in all 50 states.
Adult ‘Lobbying Days’ Begins on Monday
The adult industry travels next week to Sacramento, in part to discuss the recent HIV outbreak in the porn industry and also to hold the Free Speech Coalition’s annual “Celebrate Free Speech Lobbying Days.” It’s the seventh year the organization has held the event at California's state capitol.
Ashcroft Swoops Down on Pirates
Taking a break from his dislike of the porn industry, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has turned his attention to the thriving piracy industry in what the government is calling a so-far successful three month investigation into some of the more sophisticated piracy operations in the U.S. and abroad.
Maryland Lawmakers Take Stand on Spam
Individual states are resorting back to previous anti-spam legislation that existed prior to the federal government's involved in the national spam crisis.
Web Advertising on the Comeback Trail
Internet companies are finding the good times of advertising are coming back, and market research companies say they should stay. The reason: Marketers are spending more money on the web, hoping to reach young men and teenagers who spend more time online than watching television.
Second Acacia Hearing On Friday
The second Markman Hearing will be held tomorrow, April 9, in Santa Ana as the adult industry defense group goes up against Acacia Technology Group over a handful of Digital Media Technologies (DMT) patents that relate to streaming audio and video over the Internet.
Will Los Angeles’ X-Con Go On?
Whether or not the X-Con convention will continue is a big question mark in the adult entertainment community. Originally planned to be a monthly event, X-Con had its first expo on Sunday at downtown Los Angeles’ Entertanium.
Sweet's Obscenity Case Lingers On
Sweet, the president of Sweet Entertainment Group, was arrested in 2002 with three other members of his business and charged with six counts of obscenity based on eleven fetish videos from the SadoSlaves.com Library, according to P.G. Kent Snowsell, head of legal affairs for Sweet Entertainment.
Netsky.Q on the Rise
The warning level for the latest Netsky variant has been raised to a level 3 rating, security experts warned the cyber community, due in part to the rapid proliferation of its two proceeding versions.
Porn Ordinance on Hold
A Mills County ordinance restricting adult entertainment establishments has been put on hold after a local adult business owner filed a petition for a 'declaratory judgment.'
Fraud Viruses On The Loose
Experts are alleging that the authors of some of the Internet's recent killer bugs are part of a strategy to steal credit card information and other valuable personal information from Internet users via "back doors" on infected computers, which act as bogus online stores.
Websites Capitalizing on Porn Star’s Death
The death of porn actress Taylor Summers has brought out a number of old-stock photo and DVD collections of when she was alive. Several websites hawking her images have been activated since her death after authorities confirmed finding her decomposing corpse in a ravine in White Marsh, Penn., on Tuesday.