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