SAN JOSE, CA – A Milpitas, CA, man who once served prison time for transmitting child pornography via a computer bulletin board service was indicted Wednesday on charges he mailed obscene materials across state lines.Robert Alan Thomas, 52, once dubbed “the Marquis de...

TEMPE, AZ – In all likelihood the behind-the-scenes financial activity in the adult entertainment space will experience no glitches after Friday’s closing of one of the largest credit card acquiring banks for so-called “high risk” merchants, but merchants who processed plastic...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Orlando, FL-based attorney Lawrence G. Walters was installed as the president of the First Amendment Lawyers Association July 26 at the organization’s meeting in San Francisco, CA.FALA is an Illionis-based, 40-year-old association. Its membership is composed...

POMPANO BEACH, FL — If Ray Guhn’s prosecution for obscenity did nothing else for the people of the great state of Florida, it exposed the secret lives of their keyboards. Evidently those keyboards (sans human interaction, of course) have wild, warped and wicked minds when...

LAS VEGAS, NV — Swinging, wife-swapping, partying, polyamory or just fooling around — however one refers to the practice of communal sex with partners other than one’s own, catering to the whims of sexually liberated couples has become big business for clubs, retailers and...

WILMINGTON, DE – Holy Acacia, Batman! Channel Intelligence, which owns U.S. patent No. 6,917,941, has begun suing almost everyone it can find for infringing on the company’s rights to license the ubiquitous concept of creating “wish lists.”The interesting thing about wish lists...

WASHINGTON, DC – Add Kansas-based internet service provider Embarq to the list of companies from which Congress wants answers about Web-surfer-tracking practices. The company has been accused of using “deep packet inspection” to monitor the habits of its 1.3 million customers in...

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Note to drivers who play porn vids in their cars: Neither tender age nor arguments about lack of intellectual intervention will liberate you from obscenity charges if you broadcast porn from the back window of a moving vehicle.A 16-year-old Indianapolis...

NEW YORK, NY — Ahead of its annual shareholder meeting schedule for August 1st, Yahoo Inc. is fighting back in a war of words with billionaire financier Carl Icahn. Icahn, who owns about 5-percent of Yahoo’s stock, has submitted a slate of officers for the board of...

NEW YORK, NY – Comcast Corp. appears ready to knuckle under to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s demand that the communications giant’s internet service provider division cease offering access to newsgroups or face a lawsuit. On Tuesday, Comcast said it expects to sign an...