WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017” (FOSTA), a controversial bill which its supporters say is designed to clarify that section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) “does not...

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...

WASHINGTON – With the publication of its final rule rescinding net neutrality rules (or “Restoring Internet Freedom” as the FCC titled its order) established in 2015, the Federal Communications Commission has begun a 60-day countdown to the official removal of the regulations....

HONG KONG – For many years now, there has been a close, but sometimes complicated, relationship between dating sites and the online adult entertainment industry. No shortage of traffic has been sent back and forth between the two business sectors, with millions in advertising...

LISBON – The YNOT Grand Prix is revving up for its ninth exciting season, which kicks off at The European Summit in Lisbon on March 2. For the first time, the YNOT GP will run at Lisboa Kart, the only indoor Go-Kart track in the Lisbon area. The race begins at 3:30pm local and...

NEW YORK – In a ruling issued late last week which has drawn a strong negative response from some attorneys and other commentators observing the case, U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest found that an embedded tweet in a news story can be construed as violating a...

SALT LAKE CITY – Twenty-five years ago, it was rare to see anything porn-related in the news, outside of the occasional headline about an obscenity prosecution, or the occasional pearl-clutching opinion piece in a local newspaper about adult stores (allegedly) ruining property...

LOS ANGELES – A court has dismissed a lawsuit filed in November by Playboy against Boing Boing which alleged direct, vicarious and/or contributory copyright infringement. In dismissing Playboy’s complaint, however, the judge left room for Playboy to file a second amended...

NEW YORK – The statement released by Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen explaining (and for the first time, admitting to) a payment made to Stormy Daniels raises far more questions than it answers. One of those questions: Why is so much of the reporting on Cohen’s...

PASADENA, Calif. – Back in the summer of 2015, Teofil Brank (better known as “Jarec Wentworth,” the name under which he performed in gay porn) was convicted on six counts in connection with a scheme to extort Florida billionaire Donald Burns, the former chairman of the Board of...