NEW YORK – It’s a good thing I don’t like popcorn, because if I were the kind of guy who likes to have a container of the stuff handy when watching drama play out, I’d need a bucket the size of swimming pool just to cover me through the end of the month in tracking the ongoing...

BENEATH THE FALLING SKY, NY – To me, the best part of any new or emerging entertainment-related technology isn’t the wondrous things we can do with it. It’s the guaranteed freak-out over the perils of the same technology we get to hear from people who are reflexively afraid of...

LOS ANGELES – I’ll be the first to admit that I’m easily confused at times – a function, perhaps, of my many years of dedicated pursuit of chemically-induced happiness. Still, there are times when my befuddlement stems not from my own eroding mental capacity, but from the fact...

SAN BRUNO, Calif. – If you’ve ever worked for an adult affiliate program, chances are you’re acutely aware of the problems individual affiliates can cause, often without meaning to do so. Whether it’s spamming the known universe with hardcore images which link to your sites, or...

PHOENIX – Often lost in the debate surrounding the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (“FOSTA”) and Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (“SESTA”) is a question which seems like it should have been central to the conversation: Is a change in law really needed for prosecutors to target...

LONDON — As talk of “age verification” heats up, now might be a good time to remember that “disruptive” technologies can sometimes benefit only the disruptor. The idea of disrupting the status quo through technical innovation can sound very attractive when explained by any...

WASHINGTON – Even if the Kansas City Royals don’t think so, porn is American as mom MILFs, baseball, apple pie and ineffective federal regulations. Just ask some of the federal employees who are subject to a prohibition on porn in the workplace – a prohibition to which some of...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – We’ve all heard it said that “politics makes strange bedfellows” – but it’s worth noting that sometimes one of the bedfellows is considerably stranger than the others. Let’s say you’re an earnest, well-meaning, hardworking state representative toiling away...

LONDON – I remember sitting down with a software developer in early 2005 to look at a 2257-compliance software solution he had written. I was running a sizeable affiliate program at the time and was looking for a compliance solution sufficiently robust and feature-packed to...

TALLAHASSEE – In the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the liberal media has been all over the good folks of the Florida legislature for declining to debate the possibility of restrictions on “assault rifles” and instead...