Internext, Miami, 2005… I made it back and consider this year to be, once again, another great show. There were the usual complaints you get from any show. Lower attendance, too expensive, blah blah blah. My opinion is: until you put together a large event such as this, don’t...

I am the President of Independent ISPs for America, Inc., based in Tampa, FL. We are asking for help in fighting what we see as decisions that will mean the end to open access to information on the internet.Recently the FCC made a decision that may have gone unnoticed by the...

The fight for Free Speech and privacy, presently under attack by the Department of Justice’s extremely intrusive revised regulations implementing 18 U.S.C. 2257, continues. The esteemed team of attorneys defending America against this latest onslaught is similar to a roster of...

As most of you know, I have the honor of being a Plaintiff in Federal Court as the Free Speech Coalition seeks adult industry relief from newly published Department of Justice regulations concerning 18 U.S.C. § 2257. The recently fabricated DOJ rules might appease the...

Unless you have been vacationing in the Amazon, by now you know that Attorney General Gonzales has approved and published revised regulations implementing 18 U.S.C. Section 2257. It would be an understatement to say that the new regulations have created an uproar in the industry....

If it’s not one thing in this business then it’s another. This week webmasters learned that ICANN is expected to approve ICM Registry’s application for a “sponsored” dot-xxx top-level domain (TLD). At first glance that might seem like a good thing. New domain names, the ability...

It goes without saying that I’m a bit of a rebel. You have to have something of an independent spirit to get into the online adult entertainment industry. I have enjoyed more than eight years working as an adult webmaster and as an industry journalist. I love the culture of this...

A little less than two years ago I embarked upon one of the most challenging and least rewarding experiments of my adult life: helping to raise a troubled teen. He and his father recently emigrated from Darklady Estates, but I will long remember their stay due to the various burn...

The new 2257 regulations are out and, naturally, the lawyers are circling the wagons looking for ways to assist their clients through the morass of sometimes confusing, sometimes overburdensome, sometimes inconsistent, but always intimidating, language of 28 CFR 75.1 et seq. One...

Since George W. Bush was elected, hundreds of thousands of American jobs have flowed overseas – where labor costs are lower. On Tuesday, May 24, 2005, the federal government took a stand to help stop cheap foreign labor from competing on an uneven playing field with our local...