SEATTLE, WA — Los Angeles resident Brian Johnson filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft this week, charging that the company violated spyware laws with its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy system.Filed June 26th in U.S. District Court in Seattle,...

WASHINGTON, DC — As if Joseph Francis doesn’t have enough legal battles on his hands, Mantra Films, his Girls Gone Wild built production company, is still not in compliance with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) mandated guidelines.That’s what ConsumerAffairs.com,...

DUBLIN – US financial institution Merrill Lynch has fired 13 staff members at the Dublin branch of its operation, alleging that the employees transmitted pornographic material through the company’s email system.The firings follow the suspension of 20 employees last week,...

CYBERSPACE — In defending itself against a lawsuit that seeks to hold the website liable for discriminatory housing ads that appear in its directory, popular online classified ad site Craigslist now has some potent allies.America Online, Yahoo, Google, and Amazon.com are...

NEW YORK, NY — Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley believes he has a brilliant solution to ending prostitution and pimping. His answer to the age old morality issue is taxes – and more jail time.“This vile crime is under our noses in the United States,” he insists,...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ — The strip clubs in Scottsdale, AZ are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. Sick and tired of harsh new regulations that they believe will ultimately run them out of business, club owners have vowed to do battle with Proposition 401, a September...

CYBERSPACE — Five of the world’s largest Internet service providers have announced a join effort to develop a database of suspected child pornography images and other tools designed to help network operators and law enforcement agencies to prevent distribution of child porn...

CYBERSPACE – According to reports in the Wall Street Journal, Google Inc. will introduce a “test version” of its new GBuy online payment system as early as tomorrow, a move designed to challenge eBay’s PayPal system and to leverage the company’s dominant share of the...

ST. LOUIS, MO — For decades women have insisted and been assured that they are simply “not visual,” like men. But a recent study reveals that erotic images absolutely have an effect on women.According to the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis research,...

SHREVEPORT, LA — Daniel Smart is a 33-year-old now ex-website owner facing up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine – or both — after pleading guilty to federal obscenity charges in a Shreveport U.S. District Court.Smart, who will be sentenced on October 3rd, ran...