http://www.xbiz.com/xml/blogs/brandon.xml XBIZ - Adult Entertainment Industry News & Business Information 60 en-us Copyright 1996-2008 Adnet Media. All Rights Reserved. XBiz is a registered trademark of Adnet Media Group, Inc. Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:52:04 -0700 editors@xbiz.com (FightThePatent | brandon) http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#98444 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#98444 Microsoft announced last week that it was adding a "porn mode" to its Explorer browser. When enabled, this function will delete history and cookies after the browsing session is over. Mozilla's Fi... http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#95803 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#95803 ICANN voted today to open up the domain namespace to allow anyone to submit an application to create their own TLD. For an application fee of around $50k-$100K, plus proof of technical ability to m... http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#92353 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#92353 The subject of 2257 has been beaten around many times from how it doesn't really protect children, to the burdensomeness of compliance, etc, etc. The fact is that 2257 is on the books as a law, but... http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#91041 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#91041 There has been much industry debate and upheaval over *tube sites. Most tube sites have stolen videos that have been uploaded under a "user submitted" model where the uploader is supposedly the owne... http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#89377 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#89377 U2's front man Bono made news as the venture capital firm that he is a partner in, invested $325M for 25% stake in Palm Computers (article) Some have looked at this news with amusement as why would... http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#89075 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#89075 There has been a lot of talk about how DVDs will be completely dead in another year or so, replaced by digital video, etc. While DVD sales are down in general, I think you need to look deeper to se... http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#88596 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#88596 It has long been suspected by domainers that when you do a lookup to see if a domain is registered (ie.whois lookup) at a registrar, that the registrar uses that information to either register the dom... http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#88538 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#88538 I was scanning through xbiz and found the article titled "PA Senator Proposes Study on Adult Biz Tax Plan" and a paragraph stuck out: A Pa. state senator has proposed a study to look at levying a t... http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#87454 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#87454 A follow up thought to the FTC/AFF story. From the FTC website, they wrote: The settlement bars the defendant from displaying sexually explicit ads to consumers unless the consumers are actively... http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#87453 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=brandon#87453 Posted on December 6th on FTC website as well as some media coverage here, AFF targeted by FTC. Headline from FTC.gov home page: Adult-Oriented Online Social Networking Operation Settles FTC Char...