WASHINGTON – The internet no longer is overseen by the U.S. government. On Oct. 1, the Department of Commerce handed the reins to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, the global nonprofit that has managed the web’s root zone since cyberspace went...

HOUSTON – The European shows have come to a close for the year, and so have two of YNOT’s biggest events: the YNOT Grand Prix kart-racing circuit and the YNOT Awards. We still have one more major event to host — YNOT Party Austin Nov. 14-17 — but we can take a week or two...

PRAGUE – Thirty-five adult industry companies and individuals were toasted Wednesday evening inside a venerated Czech Republic landmark when the sixth-annual YNOT Awards crowned 2016’s best of the best in the business-to-business sector of online adult entertainment. The opulent...

MINNEAPOLIS – The Minnesota Supreme Court on Monday stripped Paul Robert Hansmeier, 35, of his license to practice law in the state. Hansmeier — one of the principal partners in notorious copyright-troll legal firms Steele Hansmeier PLLP, Prenda Law, and Anti-Piracy Law Group...

CANBERRA, Australia – A little more than a year after a massive data breach exposed the sordid details about 37 million members of infidelity dating site Ashley Madison, government officials in Canada and Australia have released a scathing report following a joint investigation...

AUSTIN, Texas – When was last time an unbalanced individual committed an act of mass violence with a vibrator? Never. That’s the message students at the University of Texas tried to get across to lawmakers on Wednesday with the “Cocks Not Glocks: Open (Dildo) Carry” on-campus...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Jeffrey Hurant, former chief executive of Rentboy.com’s parent company and the sole remaining human defendant in a criminal case that angered gay rights and sex worker activists, is finalizing a plea agreement, according to documents filed by his attorneys....

RICHMOND, Va. – A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday ruled the U.S. government may seize about $75 million from accused internet piracy kingpin Kim Dotcom. The money currently is under seizure in Hong Kong and New Zealand. Since 2012, Dotcom has been fighting extradition from...

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. – A federal appeals court this week declined to overturn a district court’s decision that there is no constitutional right to sell sex toys, at least in one affluent Atlanta suburb. For now. In rendering its decision, a three-judge panel sitting for the 11th...

WASHINGTON – On the day after the New York Post ran a full-page image of his nude wife on its cover, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump signed a pledge to crack down on internet porn. The Children’s Internet Safety Presidential Pledge, put forward by internet...