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XBIZ Signs On as Media Sponsor for Exxxotica New York
“We’ve forever held our events to a very high standard, and we are happy to work with another organization that obviously does the same," Exxxotica Expo Director J. Handy said.
Third-Party Record Keepers Beware
In addition to '2257, there are two federal statutes of which aspiring third-party record keepers need to be aware.
Tool Tips: DiskDigger
Two of the biggest challenges faced by all computer users are recovering accidentally deleted files, and ensuring that purposefully deleted files actually remain deleted.
Two Websites are Better Than One
A recent experience prompts me to write these words of warning: we who make our living from the adult entertainment industry must be extra vigilant when it comes to securing our Internet assets.
The B Word
Without question, we are in the midst of one of the worst global economic meltdowns of the last hundred years. Few industry sectors have been spared, including the adult entertainment sector, which until now had been considered by many industry experts to be recession-proof.
Rapper Imprisoned for Song Lyrics
In a case with profound First Amendment implications, a Florida rapper is going to jail for two years because of the words he sang in a song.
Jism Schism
The worm has turned. Even companies that dominate their sectors are at pains to maintain the illusion of business as usual.
Sexlets Gum Enters Male Enhancement Arena
The latest entrant in the male sexual enhancement category is Sexlets Gum via Future Lifestyles LLC.
Penile Implants
It's kind of like a horror movie. Invasion of the Implants. Penises in porn are getting noticeably smaller and decidedly more flaccid than they used to be... despite the many enhancers and enlargers now available to the vertically-challenged.
Ask Me No Questions...
It was Austrian logician Kurt Gödel who put his finger on something we all already know: You can't prove a system from within a system.
The State of Adult Content Piracy
Anyone who makes a living creating or selling adult movies understands the impact of piracy. Recently, another gay studio announced it is going out of business. It cannot compete with the massive amount of free available content.
Obscenity Laws Around the World
In an increasingly global economy, many American adult entertainment companies will no doubt intensify their international marketing efforts — and the more they know about obscenity laws around the world, the better off they will be.
Sinner for Life
Every now and again a performer explodes onto the scene fully formed, his star aura gleaming, and sets jaded, seen-it-all industryites on their ear. Ricky Sinz is such a creature. In just about two years, he has become one of gay adult's top draws with a mantel-piece straining under the weight of his trophies - all this with less than 20 films to his credit. In fact, Raging Stallion Studios not only named him their Man of the Year for 2009, but it signed him to a lifetime-exclusive contract as well.
XBIZ.net Releases Version 1.5, Bid-Based Advertising Launching
On the heels of its highly successful May launch, leading news media network XBIZ has unveiled version 1.5 of the industry’s No. 1-visited social network marketplace, XBIZ.net.
3 M's of Materials, Marketing and Masturbation
For our Hot Issue, XBIZ explored three themes that have been lighting a fire under the toy biz this year: materials that are as “green” for the earth as they are for the body; marketing direct-to-consumer without traditional advertising; and masturbation trends inspiring even the most vanilla to explore the extreme.
Twitter Burns Up Social Networking Scene
When Angelina Armani tweets “good morning” to her fans, she gets 300 responses. Almost instantly.
Grasping Copyright Law
Nearly everyone in this business has a stake in protecting and enforcing their own copyrights and in avoiding the costly litigation that can result from infringing another party's copyrights.
Porn Parodies Explode
The parody has been around almost as long as porn, but somewhere along the way it became a mockery of itself — lazy, unfunny and mostly reduced to titles playing on Hollywood without the scripts to match.
Redefining Offshore Banking
Offshore banking has become a hotly debated topic since the Obama Administration called for an end to many traditional tax breaks.
Brave New Frontier
Conventional wisdom says that free content on tube sites takes money out of producers’ pockets — so is live content the answer?