HOLLYWOOD, CA – Approximately a month after Representative Mike Pence (R-IN) first proposed adding Bill H.R. 3726 to the Child’s Safety Act of 2005, the legislation finally seems to have registered on mainstream Hollywood’s legal radar.Referring to Pence’s provision as...

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – Acacia Research Corporation announced today that its Acacia Media Technologies subsidiary had reached an agreement with attorneys representing “the university community” on licensing terms for the use of Acacia’s DMT® technology. University attorneys, however,...

POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA – With $151,000 worth of bail bond obscenity charges lodged against him by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, NowThatsFuckedUp.com website owner Chris Wilson probably never thought he’d see the light of pre-trial day. Yet, thanks to the fact that his...

CYBERSPACE – The owner of three BDSM websites, known in the BDSM community as GrandPa DeSade, announced today that he would be removing his websites from the internet out of fear of a possible obscenity crackdown by the federal government. The move comes after other BDSM...

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – Acacia Research Corporation has announced that it will release its third quarter financial results on Thursday, October 20th, and conduct a conference call for shareholders on the same day.While there has been little news of late concerning the ongoing...

CYBERSPACE – Obscenity busts are becoming all the rage, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching a new site dedicated to letting people know what the federal government considers naughty and what it considers nice when it comes to publicly engaging in...

LAKELAND, FL – Chris Wilson’s websites have raised eyebrows and attracted law enforcement attention in the past, but he never expected it to lead to jail time – especially before a conviction. Yet today he sits in the Polk County jail, accused of 300 misdemeanor obscenity counts...

CHICAGO, IL – Playboy Enterprises Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will cut its flagship magazine’s bate rate to 3 million, which represents a reduction of 4.7%. A magazine’s base rate is the estimated circulation that publishers use as a basis for advertising prices – generally...

The good news is that Americans are getting laid and enjoying it. The bad news is that they’re not necessarily making sure that their sex is safe.During September of this year, MSNBC.com and Zogby International polled more than 56,000 adult American men and women between the ages...

CYBERSPACE – Months before hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, federal auditors warned that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did not have effective procedures for sending equipment or human resources into disaster areas, an assessment that appears to have been...