http://www.xbiz.com/xml/articles/all.xml XBIZ - Adult Entertainment Industry News & Business Information 60 en-us Copyright 1996-2013 Adnet Media. All Rights Reserved. XBiz is a registered trademark of Adnet Media Group, Inc. Thu, 23 May 2013 17:42:30 -0700 editors@xbiz.com (Adnet Media) http://www.xbiz.com/articles/163001 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/163001 Each month, industry news media organization XBIZ spotlights the career accomplishments and outstanding contributions of Women in Adult. WIA profiles offer an intimate look at the professional lives of the industry's most influential female executives. Thu, 23 May 2013 07:00:00 -0700 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162992 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162992 Before tubes dominated search results for nearly every popular search term, paysites enjoyed top rankings across major search engines. The free targeted traffic this exposure delivered helped paysites to establish traffic diversity while maintaining low ratios, despite the higher ratios affiliates commonly produced. Many niche sites were able to make a business from targeted search traffic alone. The search landscape changed however with the popularization of tubes. Thu, 23 May 2013 06:00:00 -0700 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162879 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162879 With one of the unlikeliest titles ever for a porn feature, AMKingdom’s “Saving Humanity” is shaping up as the potential adult film of the year. Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:00 -0700 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162881 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162881 Could a webcam model also be a paid escort and an active member of a “hookup” dating site? Naturally, the answer is “yes,” but at what costs? Blurring the lines between these adult-themed user categories creates an uncharted hybrid of legal exposure, for both, the individual model/escort and those operating the associated websites. However, more and more frequently, we’re seeing this sort of crossover in the live webcam, escort and casual dating industries. Wed, 22 May 2013 06:00:00 -0700 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162871 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162871 Devil’s Film Director of Sales Steve Volponi has been closing deals for more than 20 years. “It’s not as easy as it used to be, but it beats tarring roofs,” he quips, an example of the shoot-from-the-hip manner that has endeared him to buyers in the industry, many of whom call the wise-cracking former piano salesman a friend. Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:00 -0700 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162828 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162828 There’s a lot of discussion in adult webmastering circles these days about the future of premium porn and the move to free, ad-supported websites as the business model of choice for many operators. Piracy is frequently cited as the culprit driving porn’s market shift and indeed, porn’s piracy problem is mainstream’s problem, too — since “nobody” wants to pay for movies, music or games anymore, they want it all for free... Tue, 21 May 2013 06:00:00 -0700 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162864 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162864 Blame it on mainstream’s newfound love affair with all things adult, or the simple fact that people are living longer and want to extend their sex lives well into the golden years. Whatever the reason, sexual enhancement products are fast becoming the next wave of pleasure products right behind the recent explosion of sex toys. Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:00 -0700 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162796 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162796 It is axiomatic that not all knowledge is obvious; in commerce, just as much as in science, information, know-how, and the means and methods by which results are achieved are often the result of extensive work, creative thought, insightful analysis, and laborious trial and error. There would be little incentive in commerce to drive the progress by which information is expensively acquired if it could not be protected: Knowledge itself is powerfully valuable. As important as copyrights and patents are, they do not and were never intended to protect any and all human discoveries. Where the protection of creative works by public copyright law ends, where the protection of inventions by public patent law ends, what remains is the private right to condition disclosure of confidential information by way of enforceable contracts that limit the further disclosure of the information. You might imagine a hypothetical world without enforceable Nondisclosure agreements — but it would be a world that would so discourage the disclosure of confidential information that progress and growth would be practically impossible, with all the risk of loss on those whose work is creative and valuable, but which falls outside those copyright and patent protections. Mon, 20 May 2013 06:00:00 -0700 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162781 http://www.xbiz.com/articles/162781 Tube sites have a lot of paysite owners unraveling at the seams. Others are eager to jump on the bandwagon as tubes start giving back some of the traffic they control. The controversy surrounding tubes and what to do about them has paralyzed a number of adult entertainment businesses. Sat, 18 May 2013 06:00:00 -0700