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News Article Friday, December 19th 2003, 12:42pm EST Australia's Spam Act to become law in April. Australia's Spam Act will come into law on April 11, 120 days after receiving Royal Assent, the federal government announced Friday. The Minister for Information Technology and Communications, Daryl Williams, said in a statement the legislated grace period would give businesses "time to adjust their practices where necessary." News Article Friday, December 19th 2003, 12:42pm EST Lesbian couple steam up Buckingham Palace. The Christmas party season is truly upon us, with the nation's workforce drunkenly embarrassing themselves in front of their boss. And according to one tabloid today, it doesn't matter if your boss is Prince Phillip and the annual party is being held at Buckingham Palace. But the girls pleased Prince Phillip at least, who allegedly enjoyed the public show of affection.Prince Philip was laughing his head off but the senior courtiers had very frosty looks," a source told the paper. News Article Friday, December 19th 2003, 12:41pm EST Sun Linux a Good Rival to Windows. Sun releases its Java Desktop System, which is its answer to Windows. It's billed as Linux for the masses. We shall see. News Article Friday, December 19th 2003, 12:40pm EST Open source outfit releases vulnerability for IE vulnerability. An open source and freeware development outfit, Openwares.org, has released a patch for an IE spoofing vulnerability. Unfortunately, it came with its own added buffer overflow vulnerability, together with a mechanism which appears to pass information over to the Openwares' web site. News Bytes Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:39pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Saddam in the Slammer Pix Cause Stir. News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:21pm EST Girls Gone Wild Makers Hit With FTC Complaint. As if they didn’t have enough problems fighting off accusations of filming minors, the makers of popular video and Internet series Girls Gone Wild have been hit with a deceptive practices complaint by the Federal Trade Commission. The Justice Department filed the complaint on behalf of the FTC in federal court Dec. 16, accusing Mantra Films and owner-director Joseph R. Francis with marketing the videos and DVDs of the series deceptively since December 2000, automatically shipping unordered product to consumers and charging those consumers without their consent. News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:20pm EST Al Goldstein Seeking Employment. Al Goldstein is seeking gainful employment, preferably in Los Angeles. Having helmed Screw for thirty-five years he offers prospective employers his managerial experience, plus access to his extensive network of connections in the adult industry. Goldstein is looking a weekly salary, and willing to take on any role in any organization – preferably one involved with the production of adult videos. News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:19pm EST ICANN approves user groups that will participate in its activities. In a first step toward giving individual users a voice in how the Internet is run, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved six community user groups in three regions. The "At-Large" groups aim to engage individual Internet users in ICANN activities at the local or issue level, the Marina del Rey, California, organization says. They also will generally foster a greater understanding of, and participation in, the Net governing process, ICANN says. Certification of the At-Large organizations comes after ICANN's board approved a framework in June for establishing local, regional, and global user groups. Sponsor Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:19pm EST WEG Cash announces upcoming $75 day. WEG Cash is giving webmasters something extra for the holidays. On December 18th, WEG Cash is having a $75 payout day on all paid trials. That's all. No caps. No limits. News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:17pm EST There seem to be two rather different viewpoints about the recent adjustments to the Google algorithms. One (the most vocal camp although not necessarily the majority) is crying foul - all sorts of conspiracy theories about Google trying to steer people towards paid services and such. Some in this camp even talk about a need for government regulation and activism to replace Google by somebody else, anybody else, who will be friendlier to their industry. This camp also complains that their sites have been replaced in the SE listings by sites which aren't even relevant to the search phrases.  News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:17pm EST Paid Search Listings Unrecognizable to Some. U.S. small business owners may not realize the value of paid search listings because nearly half of the 450 respondents to a WebAdvantage.net survey couldn't recognize paid listings from organic results. WebAdvantage attributes this lack of recognition to the way results are displayed, which sometimes doesn't provide clear differentiation between paid and organic listings. The report found that more than two-thirds of the respondents used Google as their search engine of choice, which makes a clear distinction between ads and search results. Yahoo! lagged significantly with just over 15 percent, followed by MSN with nearly 8 percent, AOL/Netscape with more than 4 percent, and AltaVista with less than 2 percent. News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:16pm EST Ron Jeremy Shocks Housemates With Porn Party. Porn legend Ron Jeremy shocked his castmates on upcoming reality show THE Surreal Life 2 when he hosted an impromptu party with a group of fellow adult film stars. Jeremy - who appears in the series alongside former Baywatch beauty Traci Bingham, Chips star Erik Estrada, '80s TV evangelist Tammy Faye Messner and Real World Las Vegas castmember Trishelle - surprised his celebrity housemates with the skin-filled bash in their temporary home. News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:15pm EST Sin city sells sex at trade show. When you hear the words "trade show", the picture that probably first comes to mind is that of enthusiastic entrepreneurs gathered inside a large hall discussing serious business. The mention of a trade show conjures up imagines of manufacturers displaying the latest innovations and the newest, hottest products in their particular field with big-time buyers traipsing wide hallways perusing and perhaps ordering those new, innovative products. I recently attended a trade show in the United States, however, that would unquestionably cause a stir among anyone who walked through the doors, regardless of their line of business. This trade show was held by an organization called SASI, an acronym for Sensual Apparel Show International - sensual apparel meaning lingerie, adult toys and novelties. In other words, the SASI show offered the latest, newest and hottest products in an industry not often associated with trade shows: sex. Sponsor Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:14pm EST Conversion Cash relaunched with new 3.0 version. Conversion Cash, which has been around since 1998, is back with their new 3.0 version featuring $30 per trial signups, powerful referral stats, rewards program and weekly payouts via wire, direct deposit, Paypal, Epassporte, FedEx or by check. Webmasters who were members of this "back when" are still in the new program, however are urged to log in as soon as possible to "update your payment information to ensure that we get your weekly checks to you on time. You must also update your link codes so that you continue to get credit for your referred signups. Any link codes not updated by December 24th at Midnight CST will stop functioning." News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:13pm EST Kanoodle takes a page from rival Google. Commercial search company Kanoodle plans to build a paid-listings business to rival Google's, having hired three former executives from the company's newly acquired Sprinks. On Wednesday, Kanoodle said it opened a New York office and formed a content advertising unit, which will be headed by Lance Podell, Doug Perlson and Mark Josephson, all executives formerly with Sprinks. Google bought the technology assets of Sprinks, a division of Primedia-owned About, earlier this year, and hired several of its employees after closing down the service. News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:12pm EST Canadian Recording Industry Hunts P2P Users. The Canadian equivalent of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has signaled that it might follow the U.S. model of launching lawsuits against individuals accused of illegal music trading, which the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) blames for CAN$425 million in lost sales annually. Although the Canadian Copyright Board last week confirmed the legality of downloading music tracks from peer-to-peer networks for personal use, the board also pointed out that uploading music files is still illegal. News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:11pm EST Loyal readers may remember my passionate enthusiasm a year ago upon the release of a new Web search product called Grokker (Making online searches more useful). This software tool takes the data culled by an online search and organizes it visually into categories that enable you to quickly dig deeply to find the exact site or information you need. Grokker broke new ground, but later ran out of gas when the Northern Lights search engine, on which it was based, went out of business. News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:09pm EST Microsoft teams up with New York in spam fraud case. The Attorney General of New York and the Microsoft Corporation are suing a firm which they claim throws out bushels of spam to unsuspecting inboxes everywhere.The unlikely pair, reports the New York Times, will hold a press conference today to explain why they've started a civil action to sue Scott Richter's OptinRealBig with alleged fraud. News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:08pm EST A Quantum Theory of Internet Value. Although word leaked out early, Google will today press ahead with a launch of what it describes as a "print" version of the Internet. Google Print apes Amazon's "Search Inside The Book" feature, where you can sorta, kinda, give yourself the illusion that you're in a real library. A search term pops up references to the term in a number of books with which Google Inc. has made the pre-requisitite arrangments. This is a narrow selection, naturally governed by commercial imperatives, and these commercial imperatives are not to be dismissed lightly. Unlike a real library or archive, those relationships are purely commercial. So searching for say, "Kant" or "Usury" in Google Print will give you a very different set of answers to what you'd get from an authoratative archive. News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:06pm EST Outdoors and Legs CDs out from Scarlett Net Erotic Escape 232 - Outdoors 18+, 565 images in 7 sets for $300 http://www.scarlett.net/cd/cd599.html  News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:05pm EST Sex Workers Call For Equal Rights in International Movement. Today people in at least twenty cities across the world will be calling attention to crimes against sex workers, namely prostitutes, in the wake of serial killer Gary Ridgeway’s dozens of murder victims. From San Francisco to Taiwan to Brussels, activists across the globe are calling attention to the need to decriminalize prostitution and afford sex workers the basic rights given to everyone. News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:04pm EST German TV breaks final taboo - porn. Breaking a taboo, hard-core pornography will take to the digital airwaves nationwide in Germany by the end of the year in a move keenly watched by the more than 20 networks which compete fiercely in Europe's toughest television market. While full-frontal nudity is a staple of prime-time TV, and soft-porn sexual situations abound on late-night television in Germany, no broadcaster has ever dared to air hard-core sex. News Article Thursday, December 18th 2003, 12:03pm EST Police have set up a fake child porn Web site in a bid to identify and catch paedophiles scouring the Net for illegal images. Officers from the UK, US, Canada and Australia are taking part in the international sting operation. At the heart of Operation Pin is a Web site which purports to contain images of child abuse. Anyone who continues to use the site in search of illegal images despite repeated warnings will be nicked. News Bytes Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 1:36pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Call him prisoner of woe. News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 1:05pm EST Playboy auction: Will sex sell? Cartoons, manuscripts, photos and even Hefner's 'little black books' will be sold at Christie's. Auction house Christie's International is looking to mine some gold from the auction of cartoons, manuscripts and photographs from Playboy magazine's archives. News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 1:03pm EST Windows XP 64-bit Edition delayed again? We hear that the 64-bit version of Windows XP for AMD x86-64 processors is now scheduled for release at the beginning of Q2 2004, so all being well that should be sometime in April next year, with, we presume, the hype happening at CeBIT in March. News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 1:02pm EST Spammers switch pills for porn. Porn spam is down, while email pushing healthcare products has risen substantially, according to an anti-spam firm. Healthcare-related email messages, primarily those marketing diet pills and Viagra, were the leading category of spam delivered to inboxes in November. News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:58pm EST Bush would back constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. While calling for tolerance, President Bush said Tuesday he would support a constitutional amendment, if one is needed, that defines marriage as being between a man and woman. News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:57pm EST Server vendors unite for the common good. In a rare showing of unity, all of the major server players have come together to support the creation of a new interface standard for managing hardware. News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:57pm EST Commission agrees US access to EU citizen personal data. The European Commission has struck a deal with the US Department of Homeland Security allowing the handing over of data on EU citizens travelling to the US by airlines. The US currently requires access to airlines' Passenger Name Record (PNR) data, while EU privacy law forbids its transfer to the US. After some amendments which the Commission describes as concessions, however, the US' proposed treatment of this data has been deemed sufficient to rate an "adequacy" finding, and thus passes muster in the Commission's view.  News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:55pm EST Wife Cuffs Hubby Then Murders Him. A woman ''executed'' her kinky ex-husband with a kitchen knife as he lay handcuffed on a bed. Mum-of-two Denise Lawrence plunged the blade into helpless Adrian Anson's heart, then turned up the stereo to drown his screams as she dressed and left.Lawrence, 47, murdered Mr Anson after he was accused of sex offences against two young girls. He was cleared by a jury but she refused to accept the verdict. Processing Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:54pm EST iBill hikes charges for over-the-line merchants. iBill wrote its customers yesterday: "Due to the increasing cost of effectively managing chargebacks, InterCept Payment Solutions will initiate a fee change related to chargebacks on Visa and MasterCard transactions effective February 1, 2004. The fee change will only affect clients with chargeback ratios in excess of 2% on greater than 25 transactions and will result in a $25 fee per chargeback. Clients with chargeback ratios below 2% will continue to pay the current fee of $15 per chargeback. We are happy to report that most of our clients are currently well under the chargeback thresholds (Visa - 1% domestic, 2% international; MasterCard - 1% overall). However, InterCept Payment Solutions will continue to offer assistance to clients that are experiencing higher chargeback ratios." News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:52pm EST Regulation of Internet phones. Politicians have worked hard to keep access to Internet connections and many forms of Internet communication free from regulation and taxation. But the debate over how government treats the Internet is likely to reach a new level of intensity now that Internet technology is colliding with one of the nation's most lucrative businesses -- telephone service. News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:51pm EST Windows XP Service Pack 2 Goes Beta with Default Firewall. It may have been a long time coming, but Microsoft's newest Service Pack 2 for Windows XP -- soon to be released for beta testing -- represents several significant changes to the software. Content Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:50pm EST ZipContent platinum amateur pack released. Just out is "ZIP Platinum #3" Super Package, "by far the largest and hottest special we have ever offered on ZIPContent" over 2025 pics of over 26 sets for $89. Images are 600x900. Special Packages contain brand new pictures that are only available exclusively through ZIPContent. News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:49pm EST Did Google do something bad to our great placements? No I don't think so and here's why. While people are screaming for help and wondering what went wrong, I've noticed a MASSIVE shift in page ranking. If you look at top placements at the moment, according to Scroogle, most of the ecommerce search terms got hit really hard. A lot of the top 100 placements were vanishing and quickly. News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:45pm EST Deck the net with wreaths of spam. With every year Christmas seeming to arrive earlier, I suspect someone has again miscalculated the calendar cycle. This year the discrepancy became even more obvious when spammers, imbued with Christmas spirit in November, doubled the number of emails they sent. In keeping with Yuletide traditions, about half the 350-odd spams I now receive daily are decorated with sparkling red and green. This is thoughtful, because it makes disposing of junk quick and easy — and at least half of the others display stars like V*I*A*G*R*A in the subject line, which also makes them easy to identify. Content Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:44pm EST Softcore, hardcore & Xmas sets at Paul Markham. Among the fifteen new sets added include: Teenage set #1528, 99 images, $35; Amateur set #0745, 123 images, $40; Amateur set #0746, 80 images, $35; Teenage set #1429, 115 images. $25. Additionally, sales on multiple set purchases: 10 sets of your choice, $300; 20 sets of your choice for $500 or 50 sets of your choice for $1,000. News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:43pm EST George W Bush has signed an anti-spam act that could increase the growing tide of junk mail flooding into the UK. Just days after EU anti-spam legislation came into effect in the UK, the US President put the seal on a piece of US legislation to make unsolicited email illegal in the US. However, a fundamental difference between the respective countries' implementation could leave crucial loopholes for spammers. News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:42pm EST Blaster and the great blackout. It's impossible to prove that a malicious worm caused last summer's power outage, but one thing's clear: Ordinary computers are the weakest link.  Resource Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:40pm EST Brittany Andrews joins WIA board. WomenInAdult expanded its industry coverage this month by appointing porn star and producer Brittany Andrews to its board of directors as Talent Liaison. The appointment falls in line with the organizations goals of ensuring that all aspects of the adult Internet business are covered. Andrews, is an adult film star and owner of Britco Pictures in Los Angeles. News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:38pm EST VeriSign Reportedly Buying Guardent. VeriSign Inc. is buying managed-security-services firm Guardent Inc., sources close to VeriSign say. Neither Guardent or VeriSign have confirmed the deal, but sources say the acquisition would be valued at about $140 million. Managed-security services has been a big push of VeriSign's this year. News Article Wednesday, December 17th 2003, 12:37pm EST Gov.UK touts Net access for all by 2008. Trade and Industry Secretary, E-Minister and all-round cyberbabe Patricia Hewitt is pleased to report today that the UK is one of the "best connected economies" in the world. This will come as a great surprise as those living out in the elephant grass and still surviving on Third-World dial-up connections and the promise of broadband by 2010-ish, but it's apparently the case that "96% of Britain's population are aware of a place where they can readily access the Internet whether at home, at work, through mobile technology, or at a public access point". News Bytes Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:20pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Cardinal Says U.S. Treated Saddam 'Like a Cow'. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:16pm EST Germany regulates dialler market. From today, all PC dialler programs in Germany must dial only through 09009 numbers. All other numbers (including 0190 and 0900 numbers) are deemed illegal, according to a new decree by the German Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts. With these measures the watchdog aims to end the growing abuse of call numbers. Internet users can now simply block access to 09009 numbers. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:15pm EST Jules Jordan Video Files Lawsuit Against AdultBouncer.com. Jules Jordan Video, Inc. has a filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against AdultBouncer.com, an adult access verification service, alleging copyright infringement and other violations. Jordan said numerous affiliates of the Toronto-based company contained unlicensed picture galleries and downloadable movie clips. The lawsuit also is seeking relief and damages for "vicarious liability and contributory infringement, violation of unfair business practices, false and misleading advertising, violation of right of publicity and tortious interference with prospective economic advantage." News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:14pm EST Defense Lawyer Will File Motion to Dismiss Tomorrow in Texas Dildo Case. Tomorrow Fort Worth attorney BeAnn Sisemore will motion to dismiss obscenity charges against Joann Webb, the woman who was arrested last month for selling an undercover officers two dildos, on grounds that the laws defining dildos as obscene are unconstitutional. Today was the first court hearing, where a pre-trial was granted. Webb, a distributor for adult home party company Passion Parties, was arrested last month after selling dildos to two undercover officers posing as a married couple. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:13pm EST Dutch web host aided porno typosquatter. Dutch web hosting company PGW Internet Solutions aided cyber scammer John Zuccarini in directing children looking for Disneyland, Harry Potter or Bob the Builder to explicit porn sites instead. The Register discovered that thousands of Zuccarini’s websites - including adaptac.com, gorgewbush.com and Bobthebiulder.com - were hosted from the Netherlands by PGW and its adult hosting company XXXextreme.nl. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:13pm EST Pop-up purveyor D Squared wins reprieve. Pop-up advertising purveyor D Squared Solutions won a temporary reprieve Monday, when a federal judge refused to extend a preliminary injunction against the tiny company that barred it from advertising its service through a security flaw in Microsoft's Windows operating system. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:12pm EST Soon, Marketing Will Follow You. Ads that follow people around and morph themselves based on computerized demographic profiles aren't the stuff of science fiction anymore. A few researchers work to bring the era of omnipresent marketing closer to reality.  Content Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:11pm EST 10 new broadband sets at UltraXGirls. Ten new sets of spunky college coed Madlynn added to the lineup of broadband sets. Images are 1200x900 and go for a buck a pop. Sets vary in number of pics but usually contain about forty. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:10pm EST Jackson charges to be filed this week. Despite a string of revelations that appear to contradict their case, Santa Barbara County prosecutors have said that they plan to make public their child molestation charges against Michael Jackson in the next few days. The expected announcement will be the celebrity scandal's most significant development since the entertainer was arrested and released on $3 million bail Nov. 20 in connection with allegations he molested a boy at his Neverland Ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:09pm EST Bush signing 'can spam' legislation. President Bush is clearing his desk before the holidays, signing seven bills that will stem the flood of unwanted e-mail pitches, help needy families buy their first homes and give flight attendants lessons in self-defense. In the Oval Office this morning, Bush was to sign the so-called "can spam" legislation. Passed by Congress earlier this month, the measure outlaws the persistent techniques used by e-mailers who send tens of millions of messages each day to peddle their products and services. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:08pm EST America Online is expected to release an upgrade for its free Winamp multimedia software as early as Tuesday, with a fee-based "pro" version that does MP3 encoding to follow, according to sources familiar with the plans. The Winamp5 update highlights a return to simpler times for Nullsoft, the original developer of Winamp, which AOL acquired in 1999 to jumpstart its online music strategy. The previous version, Winamp3, was an ambitious attempt by Nullsoft to create its own programming language, called "Wasabi," and to develop applications for the player. However, Winamp3 was dogged by criticisms that it was bloated and slow. It was scrapped earlier this year for the slimmer 2.x version. Content Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:07pm EST 25% off holiday sale at XPhotography. Pick up some high-quality photo sets from now through Dec 28th with 25% on all types of content, including softcore or hardcore holiday pics. Discounted prices are already shown throughout, so no calculating is necessary. When you purchase at sale prices, you can still take advantage News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:05pm EST The Dangers Of Publishing Your Website In Another Language. Publishing your website in another language is like managing a brand new website. It demands people who are expert in writing and editing in that language. The standard of English on the Web, for example, is often poor, even for those whose native language it is. It can be embarrassingly bad for websites publishing English as a foreign language. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:04pm EST Google Tweaks AdWords, Froogle. Google has made changes to improve its advertiser experience and brought Froogle into the Google.com search mix. It also lined up some new high-profile distributors, with Newsweek, Forbes.com and The Economist now displaying AdWords. The AdWords interface update offers new reporting on keyword performance, a cleaner and more user-friendly design of the billing summary, and auto-optimization, so that better-performing ads are shown more often. The changes were implemented in response to advertiser feedback, according to the company. Upsells Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 1:01pm EST Gay star Jason Adonis on Flirt4Free Thursday. Video Secrets announces yet another super-star feature show on the gay side of its live adult video chat service; Flirt4Free. Earlier this month Chip Noll performed live. Thursday, December 18th, Jason Adonis will entertain his fans in a fully-nude chat show between 5 and 8pm PST. Webmasters can make up to 35% on upsells. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 12:59pm EST Yahoo To Challenge PayPal in Global Arena. In a bid to break into the market for alternative online payments, in which several companies already have failed, Yahoo said it will launch an international version of its PayDirect service, using disposable ATM cards as the method of transferring payments. Billed as a lower-cost alternative to money transfers, especially for international transactions, PayDirect International will allow payments to people who do not have accounts with PayDirect, as well as those who do not have Internet access or even bank accounts of their own. Sponsor Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 12:58pm EST Spooky Cash picks up XXX Spacegirls. XXX Spacegirls is the newest site in the Spooky Cash program. The long time site joins the Blue Blood family with tons of new cutting edge content from the original creator. We've already got out-of-this-world updates scheduled for every week for months to come. Here's a site that wher sci-fi, horror, fantasy, superheroine, girls with guns/weapons, goth, bizarre, weird, and hentai traffic are all amazing for converting this site. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 12:57pm EST Lesbian "divorce" sparks outrage. An Iowa county judge is under fire after granting a divorce between two lesbians who were joined in a civil union in Vermont. On Friday, the Associated Press reported Judge Jeffrey Neary of Woodbury County approved the split for Kimberly Brown, 31, and Jennifer S. Perez, 26, last month, claiming he didn't realise the two were a same-sex couple. But when he figured out what happened, he decided not to reverse the divorce decision. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 12:56pm EST CD-burning software prompts patent suit. A small California storage company filed a patent suit late Friday against software maker Roxio and said the dispute will likely expand to cover other hardware and software companies involved with CD-ROMs. Optima Technology filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, claiming that several Roxio products infringe on Optima's patent for a "recordable CD-ROM accessing system." News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 12:56pm EST Warning to parents on internet dangers. Parents should think about the dangers of the internet if they give their children computers as presents this Christmas. Highly-publicised cases have revealed that paedophiles log into chat rooms posing as children to groom youngsters for sex assaults. Announcement Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 12:55pm EST Teri Weigel on tonight's SmutDrs broadcast. SmutDrs.com announces that tonight's radio show will have as their special guestt Teri Weigel, the only Playboy Playmate to become a XXX porn star, will Co-Host the Smut Drs live broadcast on December 16th. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 12:54pm EST Copyright Doesn't Cover This Site. As debate over the legality of online file trading rages on, a University of Maine department takes a contrarian approach to copyright protection, creating a network where content is open to all. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 12:53pm EST 16,000 punters sign up for 1Mbps ADSL. More than 16,000 punters have signed up to BT's faster 1Mbps ADSL service since the product was launched a month ago. News of the growing appetite for faster broadband services came as the telco announced it is to cut the wholesale cost of some of its broadband products in the New Year. News Article Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 12:52pm EST European RIAA-style anti-file swap lawsuits 'inevitable'. The European music industry plans to take the fight against Internet piracy right to the doors of file sharers with individually targeted lawsuits, the head of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has said. And the subpoenas could start flying next year. News Bytes Monday, December 15th 2003, 11:40am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Official: Saddam Could Face Execution. News Article Monday, December 15th 2003, 11:05am EST Royals face further scandal over gay porn star. After a year of rumours, lawsuits and tabloid intrusions, the Royal Family is set to face further embarrassment with a Sunday newspaper revealing a key servant has starred in a gay porn film. According to The People, as well as appearing in the film, which was never released, Steve Kaye is keen to sell his stories of orgies and drug taking at the palace to the highest bidder. He claims that security is slack at Buckingham Palace, and that poorly paid servants often organise parties involving drugs and sex despite senior Royals being in attendance. News Article Monday, December 15th 2003, 11:02am EST Sex and TV: How it's changed since Lucy had a baby. Fifty years ago, Lucy Ricardo, a ditzy but endearing redhead with showbiz ambitions, gave birth to a son on prime-time television. Forty-four million viewers, a whopping 72 per cent of U.S. homes with TV, tuned in. And CBS heaved a sigh of relief. Half a century later, as a result of that breakthrough, nubile pop singer Britney Spears can don fetish gear and simulate copulation on an ABC broadcast of the American Music Awards without raising an eyebrow. Arnaz had breached the dam of network reserve, precipitating a trickle of sexuality that eventually became a flood. News Article Monday, December 15th 2003, 11:01am EST Marketers Prepare for Federal E-Mail Law. When Congress officially passed the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 on Dec. 8, marketers switched from girding for California's draconian anti-spam measure to preparing for the kinder, gentler federal law. Unlike many state spam laws, the federal bill regulates all commercial e-mail, solicited and unsolicited. Many of its requirements are standard best practices, but e-mail marketers look to make some tweaks to comply with the law when it takes effect Jan. 1. The federal law requires commercial e-mailers to include truthful header information; provide an opt-out tool, either through an e-mail address or Internet-based form that works for 30 days after the mailing; process opt-out requests within 10 business days of receiving them; use accurate subject lines; put a physical postal address in all messages; and give "clear and conspicuous" notice that messages are ads. News Article Monday, December 15th 2003, 10:59am EST India says 'Porn not freedom of expression'. "Freedom of expression is necessary but this cannot be confused with the exploitative licence, for commercial purposes, of playing upon the basic instincts of sensitive millions and feeding them with sadistic and masochistic pieces or large chunks of sex or violence in the garb of entertainment," she says. News Article Monday, December 15th 2003, 10:58am EST People in the anti-spam community keep raving about how good California’s spam law would have been and asking how could Congress override it with the CAN-SPAM Act, or as It’s the Law columnist Andrew Lustigman calls it, the California Anti-Spam Disaster Relief Act. The only people who would have been happy with California’s spam law would have been bounty-hunting lawyers going after legitimate businesses not intending on breaking any law instead of the fly-by-night spam operators that clog most of our inboxes. Anti-spammers say CAN-SPAM overrules three dozen state laws that are more restrictive. OK, if they’re all that effective, how come the problem is getting worse, not better? News Article Monday, December 15th 2003, 10:57am EST Lindows.com Ordered to Change Name. Judges in Finland and Sweden have given Microsoft what it has twice been denied in the U.S.: preliminary injunctions barring Linux vendor Lindows.com from using the Lindows name. Microsoft sued Lindows.com in the U.S. in December 2001, accusing the company of infringing its Windows trademark and asking the court to bar Lindows.com from using the Lindows name. The company lost two requests for an injunction and the matter is now for a jury to decide in a trial set to start March 1, 2004. News Article Monday, December 15th 2003, 10:57am EST Copyright Board freezes music-media levies. Canadian buyers of CDs and many other recordable media have been given a year-long reprieve on the prices they have to pay. In a surprise move, the Copyright Board of Canada froze levies at their current level until the end of 2004. The music industry had put intense pressure on the board to raise the levies dramatically. |
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