STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Ever defiant, The Pirate Bay has launched beta-testing of an encrypted virtual private network its founders hope will make more difficult the enforcement of copyright complaints against both the service and its users.Freedom from hassles comes at a...

SHERMAN OAKS, CA — Amid growing uproar within and without the San Fernando Valley’s adult entertainment industry, Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation on Monday released new recommendations for health-status interactions between content producers and performers.“It...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Online registration for Cybernet Expo 2009 ends this week, on Friday, June 19th. That means “Advance Registration” rates also will be ending on Friday, giving attendees one final chance to purchase show badges at discounted rates. After Friday, online...

MELBOURNE — Not for the first time, G Media, parent company for AbbyWinters.com, has been accused of producing sexually explicit content that violates the country’s increasingly stringent decency laws – and taking advantage of impressionable and even under age models....

SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Passengers on Utah’s commuter rail systems may face steep fines for viewing “inappropriate” Web-based content over the systems’ free Wi-Fi service, under regulations recently adopted by the Utah Transit Authority.The UTA Board of Trustees approved a new...

NEW YORK, NY — Disney-owned ESPN The Magazine plans to give readers more than they might have expected of their favorite athletes in the publication’s first “Body Issue,” slated to hit newsstands October 19th.According to editor in chief Gary Belsky, the issue will expose...

MASON CITY, IA — Alan Slater was probably at least a little bit excited while customers crowded his Marina Bar in order to enjoy the bawdy view and companionship to be found at the wet t-shirt contest being held there last June. He’s much calmer now that he’s been cleared...

LOS ANGELES, CA — AIDS Healthcare Foundation will host a press conference and rally Monday at 9:00 pm in front of Larry Flynt’s Hustler Hollywood Store on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. The group plans to employ three-foot-wide, colorful condoms to emphasize its call...

CYBERSPACE — College curriculums have changed a lot over the centuries, with some universities adding sometimes strange, sometimes wonderful, sometimes baffling offerings. The advent of the internet has expanded the communication options available to educators and students...

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Pornography may be illegal in the Philippines, but that hasn’t stopped the country’s underground adult studios from raking in an estimated U.S. $1 billion annually to become the world’s eighth largest production market for adult products.China, South...