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| August 30, 2010 |
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YNOT – A respected Manhattan criminal court jurist whom colleagues described as “professional” and “careful on the law” resigned Thursday amid allegations he viewed pornography on his work computer. ... continue
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| August 30, 2010 |
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YNOT – Warrendale, Pa.-based Right Ascension Inc., parent company of e-tailer AdultDVDEmpire, last week pleaded guilty to a single count of mailing obscene materials after being charged with mailing four sadomasochistic DVDs to undercover FBI agents in 2007. ... continue
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| August 26, 2010 |
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YNOT – San Francisco-based Io Group Inc., parent company of gay adult studio Titan Media, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking damages from and an injunction against 244 anonymous defendants the company accuses of content piracy and civil conspiracy. The action, filed Aug. 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges “[d]efendants reproduced, distributed and publicly displayed, through the [peer-to-peer] network ‘eDonkey2000,’ certain Io Group-owned audiovisual works.” ... continue
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| August 25, 2010 |
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YNOT – Attorneys for adult industry trade association Free Speech Coalition on Tuesday filed a motion asking a federal district court in Philadelphia to reconsider FSC's lawsuit challenging the federal labeling and recordkeeping law, 18 USC §2257 and 2257A. ... continue
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| August 17, 2010 |
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YNOT – New York-based adult studio Lucas Entertainment has filed a second lawsuit alleging a group of John Does made unauthorized copies of one of its gay films and is sharing the files via BitTorrent index Gay-Torrents.net. ... continue
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| August 2, 2010 |
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YNOT – Internet service providers that are reluctant to provide personal information about their users to the FBI and the bureau’s determination to force compliance in cases it considers of vital interest to “national security” are at the center of a small row between the FBI and the U.S. Congress. ... continue
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| July 29, 2010 |
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YNOT – Adam & Eve founder and President Philip K. Harvey is a man of convictions, and he’s not particularly reticent to share those convictions with the public, usually with a large dose of common sense attached. ... continue
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| July 23, 2010 |
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YNOT – A softcore independent film in which gay alien zombies invade Los Angeles has been banned from Australia by the country’s Film Classification Board. According to the censors, Canadian director Bruce LaBruce’s campy horror flick L.A. Zombie violates “local taste standards” by implying sex with corpses. ... continue
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| July 23, 2010 |
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YNOT – Gay adult studio Lucas Entertainment has filed a federal lawsuit against 65 unnamed individuals the company claims used a gay BitTorrent index to share illicit copies of one of its movies. ... continue
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| July 20, 2010 |
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YNOT – The second adult performer indicted for the brutal slaying of a New Port Richey, Fla., tattoo shop owner was arrested July 15 in Chattanooga, Tenn. ... continue
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| July 19, 2010 |
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YNOT – A judge has ordered Florida authorities to return about $63,000 seized from an adult content producer during a February raid of his Tampa Bay, Fla., home. However, the obscenity case against Michael “Dirty D” Storm and two employees will proceed. ... continue
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| July 19, 2010 |
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YNOT – A naked mannequin in a Nebraska shop window is not “obscene,” according to an attorney for the store. ... continue
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| July 16, 2010 |
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YNOT – After dismissing two and one-half counts on Thursday, the federal judge in the Washington, D.C.-based obscenity trial of John Stagliano on Friday dismissed the remaining five and one-half counts against the adult video producer-director and his studio, Evil Angel Productions Inc. ... continue
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| July 15, 2010 |
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YNOT – A federal appeals court in Manhattan on Tuesday tossed out the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s policy governing indecent speech on the public airwaves, ruling the commission’s rules “unconstitutionally vague.” ... continue
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| July 14, 2010 |
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YNOT – A coalition of booksellers, internet content providers and free-speech advocates has sued the State of Massachusetts hoping to enjoin enforcement of a recent revision to the state’s obscenity law. ... continue
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| July 13, 2010 |
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YNOT – Music industry giant Warner Music Group has filed a federal lawsuit against Reality Kings and its parent company, RK Netmedia Inc., alleging the internet pornography producer has infringed the copyright on dozens of recordings owned by Warner labels. ... continue
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| July 12, 2010 |
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YNOT – After a trial that read more like chapters in a Mario Puzo novel than pages from real life, the underboss of a New York crime family stands convicted of racketeering for ordering the shakedown of Penthouse and Hustler strip clubs and a pizzeria in Manhattan. ... continue
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| July 7, 2010 |
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YNOT – A Catholic priest who was adored by his parishioners partly because he lived an exemplary — and Spartan — life has been arrested for embezzling about $1.3 million from his poor Connecticut parish. According to police investigators, the Rev. Kevin J. Gray spent the money over seven years on a lavish secret life that included male escorts, strip clubs, fancy restaurants, posh hotels and expensive clothing. ... continue
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| July 6, 2010 |
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YNOT – The parent company of the eXXXotica adult consumer shows has sued the corporate parent of rival show Adultcon, claiming the latter is holding 19 domain names in violation of federal cybersquatting and trademark laws. ... continue
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| July 5, 2010 |
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YNOT – Health officials in Miami-Dade County, Fla., last week said they will investigate a complaint alleging the adult movie industry’s refusal to require condoms on all sets violates state laws aimed at restricting the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. ... continue
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