PROVO, UT — Brigham Young University, affiliated with the Mormon Church, has lifted a three-year campus-wide ban on YouTube.According to a university spokeswoman, even though much YouTube content violates the school’s strict guidelines for virtuous living, university and...

VALLETA, MALTA — The Malta Communications Authority has proposed new regulations that will require all companies providing telecommunications services in the country to alert subscribers when abnormal charges are billed to their accounts. If adopted, the service will be...

AKRON, OH — Although some cities and states allow dancers and customers to get up-close-and-personal, if you’re close enough to smell her sweat, chances are you’re too close to the stripper in question if she’s shaking her groove thing in the not-so-sexy state of...

PITTSBURGH, PA – Robert Zicari and his wife, Janet Romano, owners of the now-defunct adult production house Extreme Associates, were sentenced Wednesday to one year plus one day in federal prison after pleading guilty in March to one count each of conspiracy to distribute obscene...

CYBERSPACE — Site visitors have long known that BradsReviews.com is where they go when they want to know what’s good, bad and indifferent in the world of gay porn. Now that the site has been re-designed and re-launched, the path to quality queer smut is only smoother and...

CYBERSPACE — What sane person wants to tweet saucy offers of fame, fortune or flesh to a hot celebrity only to find out some spammer or other pathetic pretender is on the receiving end? Twitter.com feels the pain of its 140 character communicating members and has begun beta...

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — A publicly traded Swedish software company that says it wants to compensate copyright owners for material file traders illegally share via peer-to-peer networks has offered SEK60 million (about U.S. $7.8 million) for BitTorrent index The Pirate...

BEIJING, CHINA — The Chinese government on Tuesday announced an indefinite delay in the requirement that all personal computers sold in the country be equipped with software to filter “inappropriate” Web content.The software, called Green Dam-Youth Escort, would have...

INNER GROVE HEIGHTS, MN — Exotic dancers are used to stripping off their clothes, but the ladies who perform at the King of Diamonds Gentlemen’s Club near Minneapolis, MN are sick of being stripped of something else: their right to be employees. Although the King of...

NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND — A former civil servant has been acquitted of the obscenity charges leveled against him over fictionalized rape, torture and murder fantasies published on the internet.Darryn Walker, author of a 12-page blog posting titled “Girls (Scream) Aloud,” said...