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As Sweet as Moire (*) Candy
This might seem like an odd time to enter the DVD competition with high-end product, but everyone knows that true artists don’t do things just because the market says it’s a good time. And with Moiré(*)Candy, there are two artists at work, so anything is possible.
Frederick Lane Releases 'The Court and the Cross'
Author, long-time adult industry analyst and free speech advocate Frederick Lane has released his fourth book, "The Court and the Cross: The Religious Right's Crusade to Reshape the Supreme Court."
Daring to be Great
Some companies just make it look easy. Daring Media Group entered the market in October 2006, and the Barcelona-based company was purchased almost immediately by European adult retailing giant Beate Uhse.
The XBIZ Events
For someone who rarely goes out at night, the first week of February was quite the party week for me. Two nights in a row I was invited to events put on by XBIZ.
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 looks at new online applications and a physical plugin appliance from Google designed to make searching local files easier and safer.
XBIZ Summer ’08 to Feature Former Google Employees at Wildline! Traffic Session
Search Engine traffic provider Wildline! will conduct a workshop during the upcoming XBIZ Summer Forum ’08 that focuses on ways webmasters can better maximize advertising results from Google’s search engine.
The Mistique is no Mystery
Most Americans get their news and information from a few shallow reservoirs of knowledge, primarily newspapers, tabloids, television and movies. About other countries and cultures — even ones as putatively close as America’s largest trading partner, Japan — the American public knows precious little.
U.K. Lawmakers Push for Online Age Verification
Internet retailers may soon face hefty fines or prison sentences if they fail to implement age verification procedures that will ensure their customers are of a legal age to purchase a wide variety of products and services.
Chef Jeff Makes Lemonade
If luck is when preparation meets opportunity, Geoff Mena of iBangPornstars is a lucky man.
New York Lawmakers Target Online Violence
New York lawmakers are now targeting what they erroneously refer to as online "violence porn" — which is material that graphically depicts criminal assaults, such as the popular high-school "cat fight" videos seen on YouTube.
Asian Invasion: 154 Years and Counting
On March 31, 1854, Commodore Perry negotiated the first treaty between Japan and the United States. Within 90 years, Japan had industrialized sufficiently to win the Russo-Japanese War, invade mainland China, march through the Far East and then, in 1941, bomb Pearl Harbor. Then World War II commenced.
Marketing Alt-Porn
As the adult Internet becomes increasingly competitive, some adult webmasters will inevitably broaden their focus in the hope of attracting new customers. For some, diversifying might mean getting into alternative porn.
The Sound and Fury
The debate pitting social responsibility against commercial viability vis-à-vis sexually explicit content seems never louder than when someone tosses a mention of so-called "extreme" content into the middle of it.
Tube Life
This time it was Twistys turn to publicize their position with regard to Tube sites. Shap did the dirty work and expressed his company's stance very articulately on GFY. Still, as expected, he was immediately set upon by the mob as if he'd just announced the opening of a child porn brokerage. Others leaped to his defense.
Is Bootleg Porn Threatening National Security?
Of all the headlines coming from the "war on terror," one that hasn't had much media play is the security threat posed by illegal file traders and bootleg-porn DVD collectors within the U.S. armed forces.
L.A. Times Covers Calif. Bid to Tax Porn
A May 8 Los Angeles Times article suggests that because of the state's expected $20 billion budget shortfall several normally far fetched California tax proposals introduced this year actually have a chance of being approved by the divided legislature.
Combating Piracy
Recently, XBIZ World Magazine asked several industry players "Which do you think will be most effective in combating content piracy — taking legal action against pirates, a technological solution, or some combination of both?"
The XBIZ Weekly Retail Round-Up
The weekly collection of articles reporting on local laws and battles that affect today's adult retailers.
ATM Virtual Offers MILF Sex Harem
ATM Virtual has announced its release of adult mature niche website MILFSexHarem.com.