WASHINGTON — Members of the adult entertainment industry should pay attention to a proposal to amend current DMCA policies. Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the SMART Copyright Act in March to further reform copyright laws in the United States. Major...

BATON ROUGE — A state legislator in Louisiana has proposed legislation that would permit residents to sue websites that provide pornographic content if they feel the site doesn’t have sufficient age verification measures in place. Rep. Laurie Schlegel, R-Metairie,...

UKRAINE — Amid a war instigated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the fighting is claiming innocent lives at an alarming rate. In my reporting on the invasion of Ukraine and its impact on the adult industry, I’ve spoken with adult performers based in both Russia and...

WASHINGTON — The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) released its latest round of data from its CyberTipline program that detects cases of CSAM on popular web platforms. Private web platforms, or electronic service providers (ESP) per NCMEC, and public...

WASHINGTON — The ongoing conflict initiated by Russia against Ukraine and its people has become a costly war in only a few short weeks. While much of the world continues to condemn the Russian government and President Vladimir Putin, the fighting is leaving innocent civilian...

WASHINGTON — The SAFE SEX Workers Study Act has been reintroduced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) as a proposal for elements of the federal government’s executive branch to study the impacts of SESTA/FOSTA. “Thanks to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office,...

WASHINGTON — The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from a Texas woman who claims that Facebook and its parent company, Meta, are liable for facilitating child sex trafficking. The filing, Jane Doe v. Facebook Inc., was denied a writ of certiorari (a...

WASHINGTON — President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation has initiated one of the most controversial military actions in recent European and global history, invading Ukraine under false pretenses. Now, members of the adult entertainment and camming community in both...

WASHINGTON — The controversial EARN IT Act of 2022 has advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 10. Following a hearing on the bill, a favorable voice vote adopted S. 3538 (the act’s numerical identifier) and ordered the bill’s advancement to further deliberation in...

WASHINGTON — A prominent player in the anti-porn lobby has announced its support for the controversial EARN IT Act. As previously reported by YNOT, Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., reintroduced the “Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of...