XBIZ.com | Tom Hymes | tom http://www.xbiz.com/xml/blogs/tom.xml XBIZ - Adult Entertainment Industry News & Business Information 60 en-us Copyright 1996-2009 Adnet Media. All Rights Reserved. XBiz is a registered trademark of Adnet Media Group, Inc. Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:27:06 -0700 editors@xbiz.com (Tom Hymes | tom) The Quietness That Kills http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#105320 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#105320 There is a silence within the industry, like a black hole in the middle of it. Offices are quiet. Production sets are quiet. Boards are quiet. Trade events are quiet. Not completely silent, but quiet.... Sitting Out the Recession in Jail http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#104292 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#104292 Dear Max Hardcore, I just wanted to send a few thoughts your way as you begin a 46-month stint in federal prison for an obscenity conviction that should never have happened in the first place. Firs... Just Passing Through? http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#104186 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#104186 I haven't posted up anything since late last year. Okay, it's only been a month, but it feels like 2009's been here for a while, like it's already kind of dragging. I mean, I've already got 2009 fatig... MC Bans Certain Cross Sales http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#103115 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#103115 Ron Cadwell of CCBill posted up the long-anticipated news late last night. "Effective Immediately MasterCard is going to enforce rule 5.10.1 "Pre-Checked Cross sells are now officially DEAD!!!!... "New" 2257 Regs in a Nutshell http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#102982 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#102982 As most of you have probably heard, the DoJ is publishing the "new" 2257 regulations in the Federal Register today, which means they will go into effect in ninety days. I am sure industry attorneys wi... Mary Beth Buchanan: The Gift That Wants to Keep Giving http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#102807 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#102807 Mary Beth Buchanan is the gift that wants to keep giving... and giving... and giving... and giving. The lady doesn't ever want to go home! And why should she? A tough female U.S. Attorney who isn't af... Boning Up on the Hybrid Economy *Updated* http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#102195 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#102195 Last week, the Free Speech Coalition organized a day-long summit that focused on the issue of digital piracy. It was a more significant occasion than it sounds. In convincing a day's worth of motion p... Marching With Aly Against Prop 8 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#101837 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#101837 So, in the face of floating embers and rolling blackouts that actually darkened our Valley apartment, Saturday I dragged my sorry butt to downtown Los Angeles to join a massive gathering of Prop 8 opp... Microsoft Gets Timely Patent for Filtering Swear Words http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#101283 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#101283 Talk about good timing. The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday heard oral arguments in the Fox TV v. FCC indecency case, and all but simultaneously Microsoft has been awarded a patent for an automatic c... No on 8 and Yes on McCain? (UPDATED) http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#101262 http://www.xbiz.com/blogs/blog.php?b=tom#101262 I wonder if many Californians will vote no on 8 but yes for McCain. I'd like to see those numbers afterward. Seems like it would be an odd thing to do, but I have a funny feeling more than a few peopl...