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ICANN Proposes Disputed Domain Auction
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced its plans to settle disputes over new generic top level domains (gTLDs) by auctioning the name to the highest bidder.
Image Search Engine Fights Copyright Infringement
Copyright holders have another tool in their infringement-fighting arsenal, courtesy of a new image search engine called TinEye — but adult content rights holders need not apply.
Your Opinion: Legal Issues
Recently, XBIZ World Magazine asked several industry players "What do you think is the most important legal issue facing the industry this year?" Here's what they had to say:
Facing the Issues
Recently, XBIZ World Magazine asked several industry players "What do you think is the most important legal issue facing the industry this year?" Here's what they had to say:
Producers, The Buck Starts Here
Come awards night, the players and directors troop up to the stage to collect their honors for scenes and titles, but when the big brass is handed out for the two awards that matter most — Best Video and Best-selling Video — it’s the producer who gets the golden handshake, and with good reason.
Chris Streams: Working Class Biker
For a director who has lifted his acting and directing credits well into three digits in pretty short order, Chris Streams hasn’t given many interviews. Once he gets going, though, it is clear that he can talk forever about this business, about filmmaking, about art and commerce and the sweet spot that exists somewhere in there for good porn.
Is the Internet Altering Your Brain?
As humans are relying more on Internet searches and less on their own memories, researchers are documenting a rapid evolution in our thought processes.
Crazy World of Jack the Zipper
There is a mummified French clown in a glass sarcophagus out back at the California Institute of Abnormalarts. His name is Gilles Chatouilleu and he died in 1912, but he still has his makeup on. He is tiny, shrunken. It seems like he would get cold on winter nights in the backyard like that, but Jack the Zipper said he loves Gilles.
Increasing Website Performance
In this article we'll examine the essential steps needed to correct your website structure for proper performance, along with other critical elements that all websites should have in place.
The XBIZ Weekly Retail Round-Up
The weekly collection of articles reporting on local laws and battles that affect today's adult retailers.
The XBIZ Weekly Tech Watch
This week's Tech Watch includes news about crazy new gadgets and handy new ways to get news and keep track of what's going on.
Porn in Your Pocket
The promise of cellphone porn has been a pipedream in the U.S. — until the iPhone came along. Usually behind the times in adopting new technology, American consumers have flocked to Apple’s mobile device like a horny teenager to a brothel offering freebies.
Canadian Government Green Lights Porn Cable Channel
In a move that could be perceived as making the government a de facto partner in the production of adult entertainment, Canada has issued a license to an Alberta-based producer of amateur content to develop a pay-TV porn channel.
Polish Your Site in an Afternoon
One of the most important things you can do as a web developer is to ensure that your site is user friendly.
Survey: Parents More Concerned About Video Games Than Online Porn
A recent survey by What They Say, an online parental guide to video games, found that a majority of respondents were more concerned about their children playing video games such as Grand Theft Auto than they were about them being exposed to online porn.
Your Laptop is an Open Book
WARNING: Persons entering into the U.S. are subject to random searches of the contents of their laptop computers and portable storage devices. Government agents may open and inspect each and every file on your computer if they wish.
Opinionated: Turning Tricks
Not to be outdone by their predecessors, the latest crop of sex-revenue engineers is already off the charts, in terms of advancing the affiliate business model to evolve with the times.
Turning Tricks
Not to be outdone by their porn predecessors, the latest crop of sex-revenue engineers is already off the charts, in terms of advancing the affiliate business model to evolve with the times.
Student Petitions for Canadian National Sex Day
A young Canadian computer science student has started a Facebook campaign to make Aug. 21 National Sex Day in Canada, during which people should skip work and stay home to "practice" the art of love.
ACLU Attacks FCC
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with a variety of other groups, has issued a statement to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lacks the authority to regulate non-obscene speech.