CHICAGO, IL – New York-based “adware” company Direct Revenue LLC has settled a class action lawsuit brought by Stephen Sotolo of Lemont, Illinois in March of last year.Under the terms of the deal, which has received preliminary approval from a federal judge, Direct Revenue admits...

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday that two more defendants, Clarence Thomas Gartman and former Houston Police Officer Brent Alan McDowell, have been convicted by a federal jury in Dallas for their part in a business that sold simulated rape...

VAN NUYS, CA — When most people think of porcelain, they think of a hard, white, translucent ceramic created from pure clay that has been fired and glazed and shaped into a pleasing configuration. If Digital Playground has anything to say about it, once people have seen the...

MARINA DEL RAY, CA – Leading adult transaction processor Epoch (aka Paycom) has announced that Joel Hall has been named chief executive officer of the company and that Clay Andrews, another of the company’s founders, has stepped down as the president of the company in order to...

CYBERSPACE – For a short period of time last Friday, an error in the McAfee virus definitions file caused the company’s antivirus products to flag Microsoft’s Excel and other innocuous applications as a virus named W95/CTX. The flaw was confirmed by Joe Telafici, director of...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Child porn charges brought against a former meteorologist for KUTV in Salt Lake City and his business partner may hinge on the definition of “lascivious exhibition,” a term which is not defined in federal law.Matthew John Duhamel, who once worked as...

DEERFIELD BEACH, FL – A huge cache of stolen customer data recently uncovered by a pair of security firms did not come from a breach of iBill’s security, the president of the beleaguered company told Wired.After cross-referencing the 17 million allegedly stolen records against...

Editor’s Note: Since this article was originally published on YNOT last week, Wired News, the source of this story, has issued the following message in relation to their story: “Since publication of this article, iBill has spoken with Wired News. The company now says...

LARGO, FL — As man is to wife, so is AmateurPornDollars.com to RealityWife.com. After waiting for the virtuous RealityWife to put out for them and make an affiliate commitment, webmasters can finally sigh a breath of relief and enjoy the conjugal rights of the site’s new...

TOPEKA, KS – Phil Cosby, an Abilene, Kansas-based activist has taken his anti-pornography efforts to the State House of Representatives, calling for changes to the state’s obscenity statute. Cosby says alterations to the statute’s language are necessary in order to fix flaws...