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Articles by Quentin Boyer

Special Report: AICO Hits Down Under

While coordinated and cooperative anti-piracy efforts are a relatively new development for the U.S. sector of the adult entertainment industry, the Australia-based Adult Industry Copyright Association (AICO) has been actively fighting piracy in that country since 2003.

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AICO Gets it Done Down Under

While coordinated, cooperative anti-piracy efforts are a relatively new development for the U.S. sector of the adult entertainment industry, the Australia-based Adult Industry Copyright Association (AICO) has been actively fighting piracy in that country since 2003.

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Special Report: Tucker Targets Piracy

As concern over adult content piracy has grown over the past two years, a variety of strategies to combat the problem have been endorsed, ranging from purely technological solutions to legal actions targeting the pirates and those that support and do business with them.

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Tucker Targets Piracy

As concern over adult content piracy has grown over the past two years, a variety of strategies to combat the problem have been endorsed, ranging from purely technological solutions to legal actions targeting the pirates and those that support and do business with them.

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Special Report: Adult in the Virtual Space

Utherverse Digital CEO Brian Shuster has a vision of adult entertainment's future, and that vision is decidedly three-dimensional.

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A Brave New World of Intimacy

Utherverse Digital CEO Brian Shuster has a vision of adult's future, and that vision is decidedly three-dimensional. Utherverse is the company behind the adult virtual world RedLightCenter, an adult-specific virtual world similar in structure and function to Second Life.

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Under the Same Gun

In recent years, adult entertainment and video gaming have exploded into multi-billion dollar business sectors, largely driven by the rapid technological developments that enable both industries.

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Using PageFlakes

Looking for a simplified personal start page alternative to My Yahoo! or iGoogle? You might consider the Ajax-based PageFlakes.com.

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Adult Innovations

The online adult entertainment industry has long been perceived to be a leader in technological and marketing innovation, but what exactly are these innovations? To help answer this question, XBIZ World Magazine profiled several significant examples of online adult marketing prowess.

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3.5G Drives Mobile

Opinions vary as to how large the mobile market for adult content is, but one thing appears to be clear; the infrastructure backend for mobile content distribution is growing like a weed.

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Vivid vs. PornoTube

When Vivid in mid-December announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Data Conversions Inc., the parent company to PornoTube.com and AEBN, alleging copyright infringement, misappropriation and unfair business practices, the adult industry's initial response to the complaint could be summed up in one word: "wow."

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German ISP Update

A German court recently threw out a petition filed by Huch Medien GmbH, the company that owns and operates AmateurStar.de, asking the court to force the German ISP Arcor to block Google.de and Google.com in order to prevent the display of adult images without age verification.

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German Court: Arcor Does Not Have to Block Google, YouPorn

A German court recently threw out a petition filed by Huch Medien GmbH, the company that owns and operates AmateurStar.de, asking the court to force the German ISP Arcor to Google.de and Google.com in order to prevent the display of adult images without age verification.

What's Good for the Goose is Good For…Google

Under the German Telemedia Act, websites that offer content deemed “harmful to minors” must conform to age verification protocols established by the German government, or risk being blocked by German ISPs by order of the court.

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Here We Go, Again….

Yes, another set of doubtlessly earnest yet entirely misguided souls has demonstrated a complete lack of understanding concerning the “Miller test” for legal obscenity

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Farewell to a Master of Fantasy

When I was a youngster, back in the mid 70s, my older sister read aloud to me JRR Tolkien's <i>The Hobbit</i> and the entire <i>Lord of the Rings</i> series

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I've Heard of Beating a Dead Horse, But....

There are crimes, there are Crimes, and then there’s…

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opinion

Score One for Pointlessness

A recent article on <a href="http://www

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A Little Research Goes A Long Way

<P> <b>Update:</b> AVN has corrected their article since I originally posted this entry

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opinion

Sex and the City Hall

According to one ex-employee of the Redding, Calif

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