STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — The four men who own and operate notorious BitTorrent tracking website The Pirate Bay are guilty of contributory copyright infringement, a Swedish court ruled Friday morning.Peter Sunde, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundström each...

SAN JOSE, CA — The San Jose, CA, City Council last considered installing internet filters on public library computers in 1997. At the time council members rejected the idea after concluding the technology was too primitive to be effective.The council will revisit its...

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Los Angeles County Coroner’s initial autopsy results indicated no foul play was involved in the death of legendary porn star Marilyn Chambers, but investigation continues into what natural causes may have taken her life.Chambers, 56, was found dead in...

WASHINGTON, DC — A freshman congressman from New York plans to introduce federal legislation that would prohibit broadband internet service providers from instituting metered billing based on gigabyte usage.Calling proposed usage caps by Time Warner Cable, Comcast and other...

PITTSBURGH, PA — City zoning standards can be bizarre. Although a wild array of largely fictional “secondary effects” are frequently conjured up to keep adult businesses in the worst parts of town, other vice industries do not suffer the same zoning restrictions. A federal...

PIQUA, OH — What blood-pumping human being hasn’t fantasized about showing some richly deserving so-and-so who’s boss by signing them up for a batch of porn mags they don’t want? After all, isn’t sex the gift that keeps on giving? Alas for one vengeful neighbor, that spirit...

SWEDEN — Economic times are tough all over, even in infamously tax happy Sweden. In the search for more funds to fuel the engines of government, the country’s tax authorities are checking out the domestic web cam talent; not for prurient enjoyment, of course, but in hopes...

MONTPELIER, VT — Legislation passed by the Vermont Senate and pending in the state’s House would exempt from child pornography charges teens who engage in “sexting.”Sexting is the practice of sharing risqué photos via cell phone. The pastime has reached fad status among...

VASSALBORO, ME — While the coffee may or may not be worth a visit, the view has definitely made the trip worthwhile for caffeine-driven visitors to the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop. Now the shop’s owner wants to emphasize the view and downplay the beverages by opening his...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Sara Sazzman may not have launched a thousand ships, but she sure has roiled the seas under the biggest freighters in the adult industry trade magazine publishing biz.AVN Media Network, publisher of the 27-year-old “adult industry Bible” Adult Video News,...