YNOT – A U.S. District Court in Chicago has awarded gay adult studio Flava Works more than $350,000 in a pair of default judgments against two former social networks the studio accused of encouraging users to engage in unauthorized sharing of copyrighted content.The court ordered...

YNOT – “Lack of revenue and circumstances beyond our control” have forced the permanent closure of online payment processor ePassporte, according to a statement the company posted in the protected account-management part of its website.The statement also indicates representatives...

YNOT – Ventura Content AVV, parent company of Pink Visual Productions, and Manwin group of companies, parent of Brazzers, on Monday settled the copyright infringement suit Ventura filed in February. Co-defendants Mansef Inc. and Interhub also are parties to the...

YNOT – AdultCentro has upgraded the functionality of its content-leasing platform. In addition to multiple bug fixes and system optimizations, new features have been added in an effort to facilitate customers’ management of pay sites, tube sites, free sites and live-cam and...

YNOT – The Joanna Angel Blow Up Doll has issued an invitation to those she considers minions: Create a quirky, irreverent, safe-for-work video documenting her quest to become more than a doppleganger. The doll will peruse the entries, incorporate the ones with merit into her plan...

YNOT – A customized video-on-demand player based on Microsoft’s Silverlight platform is now available on SugarVOD.com and SugarDVD.com. The new player is Mac-compatible and allows visitors to stream the more than 50,000 movies in the Sugar network’s collection without downloading...

YNOT – Darren “D-Money” Blatt has joined Universal City, Calif.-based affiliate program BuiltToConvert to lead the company’s branding and affiliate-development efforts. Blatt’s extensive background in the adult entertainment industry will help to strengthen the company’s...

YNOT – Philadelphia-based National A-1 Internet, parent company of video-on-demand website GayMovies.com, has inked a deal to stream the films produced by award-winning online studio Cockyboys.com.Between signing exclusive deals with some of the gay adult industry’s most...

YNOT – Internext, AVN Media Network’s annual adult webmaster trade show, will return to Las Vegas Jan. 9-11, according to a midday Friday tweet on the company’s Twitter stream.AVN’s spokespeople were out of the office and unable to return calls for comment Friday afternoon,...

YNOT – Vietnamese police arrested three officers of a Hanoi company that ran pornographic websites hosted on U.S. servers. In addition to porn, police accused Tran Ngo Quy and Pham Ba Nhan, both 25, and Dang Bui Phi Hung, 33, of distributing “reactionary” videos produced by...