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Articles by Cory Kincaid

Digital Hollywood: Adult Panel Stresses Opportunity, Responsibility

Last week's adult industry panel at Digital Hollywood spoke directly to the significant opportunities that have and will only continue to be made available to adult and mainstream businesses.

Island Gathering’s 6th Annual Webmaster Event Sold Out

As industry gatherings go, the Island Gathering has always been, and continues to be, one of the more exclusive to attend, due in part to its remote location just off the coast of Venezuela, in the warm waters of the south Caribbean Sea.

FBI Endorses Cyber Crime Effort

The FBI gave Hollywood its official permission to use the FBI name and logo to fight digital piracy. Although some critics of the decision think the blanket endorsement will only confuse consumers

Nords Strive To Define Porn

A court trial against a porn publisher for violating a decency criminal code is being used as a flagship case for the future definition of pornography in the Netherlands

Playboy Unveils Wireless Plan

Playboy revealed its latest multimedia venture this week which includes a major online distribution plan and a wireless content deal

Porn: The Church's Dirty Secret

With Valentine's Day right around the corner, a nonprofit faith-based organization is using this day of love to encourage people to give up Internet porn

PlayStation Porn Scammers Fined

Three Internet scammers get fined for luring PlayStation 2 players to a pay-per-minute porn website

InterCept To Sell iBill

Technology and financial services provider InterCept announced plans this week to enter into a letter of intent for the sale of its merchant services division, which includes iBill

Studio 54 Trademark Violation

The Vegas hotelier is alleging that a website named after the famous 1970s Manhattan discothèque is using its trademark to sell porn

FBI Investigates Naughty Doctors

The FBI is investigating allegations that medical staff at the University of Texas Health Science Center have been viewing child porn in-between shifts

Gay Porn Producer's Home Raided

Santa Barbara police had a busy weekend raiding the home of F. Mark Schaffel, a business associate and friend of pop star Michael Jackson

Dute Faces Second Trial

Jennifer Dute, a producer of homemade porn videos involving multiple sex partners, will face another trial for pandering obscenity after her original case was reversed by an appeals court

Baseball Meets Gay Porn

A young pitcher who was signed by the Indians last March for a mere $67,000 yearly salary has come under close scrutiny for a less-than-perfect past in the porn industry

Clear Channel Fined For Indecency

The nation's largest radio station owner got slammed with a $715,000 fine by the Federal Communications Commission for airing sexually explicit "Bubba the Love Sponge"

Patriot Act Used In Scam

The email scammer uses the Patriot Act, a sizable set of anti-terrorism laws and provisions pushed through Congress immediately after 9/11, to frighten people into surrendering their personally identifying information

Lockyer Peeved Over Can-Spam

A must-attend for professionals in the email sending and receiving industries, a group of Internet industry leaders headlined the "Spam and the Law" conference in San Francisco this week

Penthouse Pulls Out Of Bankruptcy

After filing bankruptcy toward the end of 2003, General Media Inc., the publisher of Penthouse magazine, has tapped Seneca Financial Group for help

P2P Activity Rebounds

Despite heavy-handed intimidation tactics carried out by the Recording Industry Associations of America earlier this year, a study out says that file-sharers are on the rebound after the chilling effect of the RIAA's legal pursuit

FCC To Ban 'Indecent' Words

The FCC is fed up with the amount of profanity and 'indecency' coming over the airwaves and is supporting a bill that will ban certain words from television and radio that relate to excrement, sex, and parts of the body

Kentucky Blocks Hustler Store

The city council threw a wrench in Larry Flynt Publications' plan to build a Hustler retail store along the interstate interchange where current zoning laws allow adult establishments to conduct business

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