Once an online star on tianyaclub.com, the biggest online community in China, Zhang Keke, a female singer who showed her photos and songs on the website before rising to stardom, recently took the BBS portal to court, reported the Beijing Times Wednesday.
Zhang claims the website failed to conduct proper censorship on a post which indicated Zhang slept her way to an endorsement, trading her body for a deal, which, she says, damaged her reputation and caused her enormous emotional pain.
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Apparently some Brazilian prostitutes are starting to use technology to increase the number of clients they receive. As Folha de Sao Paulo, the leading Brazilian newspaper, announced “the profession might be the oldest of the world, but the marketing being used is pretty new”!
The mentioned women work for an online site called M.Class, which recently started offering video on the MP4 format that can be played on the iPod.
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A modest community television show with a suggestive title has proven irresistible to Web trawlers.
"Let's talk about sex," a half-hour segment that aired on Nevada County TeleVision on Oct. 18, has shot up in the Google video rankings since it was posted to the Web site, attracting more than 111,000 views and 4,600 downloads. The top video on Google last week attracted 470,000 views.
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There may be a lot of porn on the web but most access it the same old way, via web pages. A new service may change that with their adult porn RSS feeds.
100's of adult movie and picture galleries across the web have been aggregated and users may download a browser RSS tool or subscribe to the feeds or they may use their own preferred RSS reader.
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Talk about working blue: A local venture-capital firm recently fell prey to a hacker who took over the company's Web site and directed viewers to several porn sites instead.
Blueprint Ventures' home page said Thursday that the site is under construction and invited visitors in the meantime to enjoy "top quality" adult images through several links.
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WASHINGTON - Tucked away in a spending bill pending in Congress is language the porn industry finds offensive.
Along with billions of dollars in funding for the Justice Department and the State Department is a little-noticed provision that would require Web sites that feature "sexually explicit" content to contain special labels to make it easier to keep kids away from them.
Posted by Super Sub in: Porn & Sex Industry, Legal Issues, Internet, USA at 5:29 AM GMT
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In yet another twist in the extraordinary tale of Sex.com, the con-man who stole the world's most valuable domain has been released from jail - in order to locate the millions of dollars he owes the original owner.
Stephen Michael Cohen has been ordered to hand Gary Kremen $65m by a US court but despite years of intense fighting has yet to hand over one cent.
Posted by Super Sub in: Legal Issues, Internet at 12:20 PM GMT
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Yahoo today released its Top 10 Searches for 2006 and once again pop singer Britney Spears reigns supreme.
"Britney Spears" has been the leading query for the past five years, having only been dethroned briefly in 2004 by Paris Hilton.
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A Chinese court sentenced the founder of the country’s largest pornography web site, which has 600,000 users, to life in prison.
Taiyuan Intermediate People’s Court handed down the sentence to Chen Hui, 28, for profiting from pornographic dissemination, New China News Agency said.
Chen’s other eight accomplices of the website were jailed for terms ranging from 13 months to 10 years.
Chen and his accomplices started the website in 2004 and opened three other porn websites, attracting more than 600,000 users.
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A confidential analysis of Internet search queries and a random sample of Web pages taken from Google and Micrsoft's giant Internet indexes showed that only about 1 percent of all Web pages contain sexually explicit material.
The analysis was presented in a federal court hearing last week in Philadelphia in a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and obtained Monday by the Mercury News.
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has brought a case against the spyware operation Media Motor, with the company and its affiliates ordered to cease their disreputable business and account for their ill-gotten funds.
Media Motor's spyware software often posed as a media viewing application, and was made available from various sites including Joysticksavers.com, a fake screensaver site, and Privateinpublic.com, which posed as a provider of voyeur pornography.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Award-winning sex blogger turned successful author Abby Lee has just about had her fill of dating introverted British men -- so much so she is considering moving to New York to take a sabbatical from them.
Her book "Girl With a One-Track Mind: Confessions of the Seductress Next Door" has sold over 40,000 copies in Britain, and has been in the UK's top 20 non-fiction paperback chart for the last 12 weeks.
Posted by Super Sub in: UK, Society & Culture, Media, Internet at 8:43 AM GMT
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In light of what can only be viewed as a pretty outstanding victory for our industry in yesterday’s mid-term elections, I feel it absolutely necessary to make something of a public service announcement.
Basically, I just want to let you guys know that this election result is not a license to start acting like a bunch of fuckin’ idiots, okay?
Posted by Super Sub in: Politics, Porn & Sex Industry, Internet, USA at 5:30 AM GMT
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SCOTTSDALE - The mysterious group that launched Scottsdale's latest porn controversy has no known members and likely does not exist, those following the story said.
The Northeast Valley Coalition Against Pornography raised eyebrows in north Scottsdale last week by distributing a flier warning of an Oregon couple's plans to move their hard-core Web site to a Scottsdale neighborhood.
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Google on Tuesday inadvertently sent the Kama Sutra email worm to the 50,000 subscribers of a Google Video email group.
Three postings were made on Tuesday evening to an email list that sends out postings to the Google Video blog.
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Council workers abusing the Internet and spending their days "porn surfing" is not just a Johannesburg problem, but a national one.
This was the response from opposition leaders on Monday after The Star's expose on City of Joburg employees downloading, watching and distributing pornography during office hours.
Posted by Super Sub in: Internet, Africa at 10:48 AM GMT
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People have been making amateur porn and uploading it to YouTube since its inception; after all, it's human nature to sexualize any new technology.
Smart online sites like Second Life, while not a sex site, take this need to sexualize as a grown-up given.
Posted by Super Sub in: Society & Culture, Porn & Sex Industry, Internet at 6:46 AM GMT
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The DVLA this week dismissed 14 staff and disciplined a further 101 staff in Swansea on grounds of gross misconduct, for downloading and distributing pornographic images.
The staff concerned were found to have used the agency's electronic systems to send pornographic email attachments out of the agency, in direct contravention of DVLA's code of conduct.
Posted by Super Sub in: UK, Legal Issues, Internet at 8:47 AM GMT
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A group representing sado-masochists who have consensual violent sex expressed disappointment at yesterday's moves to ban violent porn.
The Spanner Trust - named after the infamous 1990 "Spanner" trial of a number of gay men who engaging in beatings, genital abrasions and lacerations - said the move risked criminalising innocent people.
Posted by Super Sub in: Europe, UK, Legal Issues, Internet, Censorship at 6:21 AM GMT
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BEIJING -- The trial involving China's largest pornographic website, which boasts more than 600,000 registered members, began on Wednesday.
Nine creators and organizers of the website "Qingseliuyuetian", meaning pornographic summer, are being sued at the Taiyuan Intermediate People's Court in north China's Shanxi Province.
Posted by Super Sub in: Asia, Legal Issues, Internet at 6:18 AM GMT
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