SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge in California has ordered X-art parent company Malibu Media to prove the accuracy of the geolocation technology it uses to identify copyright infringers. If the company cannot or will not, the judge indicated he will dismiss current cases and bar...

On April 27, the U.K. Parliament quietly passed the Digital Economy Act 2017 before scurrying off for vacation. The act received Royal Assent the same day. What used to be reviled as the Digital Economy Bill is now law — and its effects stand to reach much farther than the Grand...

As news of former New England Patriots tight end and murderer Aaron Hernandez’s apparent cellblock suicide spread last week, Twitter lit up with chatter. The hashtag #AaronHernandez rocketed to the top of Twitter’s trending list. As usual, overzealous and under-thinking marketers...

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives earlier this month could gut the “safe harbor” provisions in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and stifle free speech online. Introduced by Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.), H.R. 1865 — titled...

CANOGA PARK, Calif. – Adult industry trade group Free Speech Coalition has called for a temporary production moratorium after a performer tested positive for HIV. As always, the precautionary work stoppage is voluntary. According to an FSC alert notice, the performer, who is...

Your website’s out of date. You need to modernize its look and feel, add better navigation, spiff up the video content, add more images and interactive features… The list is long and you’ll get to it all, eventually, but in the meantime you need to increase traffic and...

PHOENIX – When he and eight women he employed as models were arrested in 2013, William James Hartwell told police and the FBI he expected the law would bust him eventually. He probably did not expect the case to stick. On Friday, a jury convicted Hartwell, 56, of 10 charges...

A new meta-analysis of decades’ worth of research about porn and relationships concluded porn-watching is related to less-happy relationships, at least where men are concerned. Among women, however, there seems to be no correlation between porn and relationship...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A national group ostensibly devoted to ending sexual exploitation of women and children last week presented a list of demands to Congress and the White House. At the top of the list: The executive and judicial branches of the federal government must “vigorously...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google employees no longer are prohibited from suing if they encounter porn on the job. The search giant reversed a longstanding policy after a group of current and former employees quietly filed a lawsuit in December, alleging — among other things — the...