RICHMOND, Va. – A recent copyright ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals underlines several aspects of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which are important to understand for those who operate websites which depend on the...

Vice Industry Token (VIT) — a platform where viewers can watch content, as well as a proprietary cryptocurrency — will soon pay people to watch porn According to VIT, their platform and cryptocurrency represents a profound change in the porn consumption paradigm. In...

VENICE, Calif. – In recent years, few technological developments or new platforms for content delivery have generated as much buzz as the emerging field of virtual reality. Intuitively, long before VR headsets were available on the market, entrepreneurs, technologists and...

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia is the latest state to contemplate passing a version of the legislation known as the Human Trafficking Prevention Act (HTPA), which has been introduced to the General Assembly there as HB 1592. As with iterations of the HTPA under consideration in other...

MaleGeneral (allegedly) takes the non-consensual posting of sexual images — a.k.a. revenge porn — to the next level. In addition to posting sexually explicit images, it asks users to help build collections around specific, sought out individuals. Per a recent write up...

CHICAGO – A federal judge in Illinois has dismissed all but one of the claims brought by Flava Works Inc. against myVidster.com, after finding that the Flava Works complaint “fails to identify even a single infringed work.” U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman also found Flava...

Scheduling tweets and Facebook updates is old news. Instagram, though, has long been holding out. Until now. Instagram made what’s considered a long overdue change earlier this week. It will now allow business account holders to schedule their posts. Unofficial means – like tools...

By Lauren MacEwen Twitter likely had the most significant updates in 2017, affecting its users in both a positive and negative way. Based on recent information from SocialFlow, click through rates on Facebook compared to click through rates on Twitter are down 44 percent. In...

February is Condom Month! Or so a distributor’s email announced earlier this week. Condom Month, which targets all types of condom awareness, is just one of many months and days recognized by myriad organizations — universities everywhere, the American Sexual Health...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – In the latest release of the Chrome browser (first pushed out to Chrome users on January 23), Google expanded the browser’s ad-blocking to incorporate the initial standards recommended by the Coalition for Better Ads (“CBA”), a group comprised of companies...