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New iPhones are "Porn-Friendly," Says Time Magazine

by Christine Whitney, posted Jun 22nd 2008 at 8:10AM

The other day we wrote about a French study in which porn watchers had their brains scanned and their d's measured. It's been a big week for the adult entertainment world! Today we found out, from none other than Tim Magazine, how psyched the porn industry is for the new iPhone. "It's by far the porn-friendliest phone," says pornographer spokesperson for Sin City Entertainment Devan Cypher, when talking to Time's Jeremy Caplan.

Of course, this story is nothing new. There are already a few hundred iPhone-specific porn sites getting traffic (not associated with Apple, btw), and iPhone 2.0-compatible sites are expected to proliferate after the iPhone 3G's release on July 11. The new iPhone is supposed to be way better than the old one for many things, porn-watching among them. It loads Web pages twice as fast and is even better at processing video, so it's less likely to freeze up at, er, crucial moments.

Until recently -- in the US, anyway -- the extent of most phones' porn capabilities was smutty photos, dirty text messages and "moan tones." This was mainly because many standard phones didn't have robust Web surfing or video capabilities. But now, with iPhones, BlackBerrys, and other 'smart' phones, you can watch video and the whole shebang.

Great, pocket porn. You can take it on the subway with you, into the bathrooms at Starbucks, to boring business meetings....Wait, this sounds like a really bad idea, actually. And the screen is so tiny! Like those dirty playing cards boys used to flash around in the cafeteria. We've seen lurkers get arrested for this sort of thing in public libraries (not the porn looking, but...you know). Can't you just wait until you get home? [Source: Time, via Textually]

Three ISPs, France, Other Countries to Block Child Porn Web Sites

by Will Safer, posted Jun 12th 2008 at 6:23PM

Sprint, Time Warner and Verizon have worked out an agreement with the New York State Attorney General to block access to Web sites and bulletin boards that host images of child pornography. This is a new tactic by law enforcement to stop the dissemination of these images and brings these companies into the effort by making them responsible, to a degree, for the content relayed across their servers and relay points.

Other Internet service providers, or ISPs, are expected to follow the lead of these three companies and are negotiating their approach with the attorney general's office.

Until now, the focus by law enforcement has primarily been on the perpetrators of child porn, those people who create the original images or those who go onto the message boards and Web sites to view or share the illegal content. The responsibility of the ISPs has been somewhat passive, relying on their subscribers to complain about images or other bad content before they would take action.

As the New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo pointed out, the individual ISP subscribers who would most likely come into contact with the illicit images are the very same people who create or intend to share them, so they would be unlikely to report the illegal activity. Still, it was undercover operatives from Cuomo's office who went on to the child porn sites and message boards in a sting operation. These agents then logged complaints with the ISPs, with the expectation that action would be taken to remove the images or block the sites. When the ISPs didn't respond to the complaints, that's when Cuomo's office took action.

ISPs have been reluctant to block Web sites and message boards, saying the nature of the Web makes it difficult to monitor content and determine who is really responsible for illicit content. But part of the agreement to block the sites includes access to an image bank maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. When an image with child porn is found, the Center logs it and creates a "digital identifier." Then, if the same image appears on another Web site it can be quickly identified, and even lead to the discovery of other child porn images. Use of this tool and searching method can aid ISPs and investigators as they seek to root out child pornographers.

This move comes at the same time an international effort is ramping up, with Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Canada and New Zealand already directing their ISPs to create "black lists" of sites that host child porn, and spread terrorist information or racial hatred. The latest country to announce it will join this effort is France, which will have its blacklist in place by September.

Some ISPs, like AOL, have already put major effort into blocking child porn Web sites and message boards on their own. And some social networking sites, like MySpace and Facebook, have already worked with law enforcement to prevent child porn purveyors from making use of their services.

Together, Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner have about 16 million customers. [Source: The New York Times.]

Teacher Fired For Viewing Pornography Sues District

by Peter Mychalcewycz, posted Apr 21st 2008 at 8:05AM

A former Cedarburg, Wisconsin teacher, fired for viewing porn while on the job in 2006, is back, $9 million lawsuit in hand.

Robert Zellner was fired after school officials concluded that he had viewed porn, at his computer, on a Sunday, for 67 seconds. In the lawsuit, Zellner's attorney claims that the disgraced teacher was making sure that access to adult material wasn't available to students. The complaint goes on to allege that the school district violated Zellner's free speech.

The whole free speech thing probably isn't going to carry much weight, what with buzzwords flying around like porn, "blonde" and children(read the full article and you'll get the blonde reference). However, the elapsed time that Zellner spent viewing the page/s does raise some eyebrows, at least from a comedic standpoint. What pleasure could he have derived from 67seconds of porn?

Zellner may be lying, he may be a pervert and it may be a blessing that he can no longer find work as a teacher in Wisconsin. Anywhere.

On the other hand, an uptight school system may have ruined an honest man's life and, more importantly, his reputation. [Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, via Fark]

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Adult Film Stars Reveal Their Gadget Faves

by Alon Avdi, posted Apr 20th 2008 at 12:03PM

Earlier this year in Las Vegas, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was forced to share the stage with another major exhibition of consumer products, bigwigs and dealmakers. At the Sands Expo convention center, the annual Adult Video News (AVN) Adult Entertainment Expo -- a trade show in its tenth year showcasing adult talent and exhibitors -- was also in full swing. Since the event attracts over 30,000 international buyers and fans of adult entertainment, it seemed like the perfect place for at least some of the Switched team to interview the top female stars in adult entertainment about -- what else -- the role of gadgets, gizmos and technology in their busy off-set lives.

We had seven different stars answer our Switched Questionnaire and you'll want to know what they had to say. We also sent out a separate videographer to film gadget-related interviews with 22 other adult stars, the results of which are highlighted in the above exclusive Switched video. To find out more, watch the video. Then, for even more saucy gadget talk, take a look at the interviews we've got lined up in ing pages.

And if words or video simply aren't doing the trick, we've also got a stunning gallery waiting for you at the end.

(Video and posts are safe for work, but some content may not be appropriate for younger viewers.)

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Proposed Law Requires Age Verification on Public Wi-Fi Networks

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Feb 7th 2008 at 3:27PM

Utah Wants Age Verification on Public Wi-Fi Networks

We all know there's a lot of questionable content online, most notably pornography, and keeping kids from that content is a big priority for parents and social conservative groups everywhere. The question is how to do it. A Utah-based non-profit teamed up with a member of the State's House of Representatives to introduce a bill that would make pornography inaccessible at public Wi-Fi hot-spots with out age verification.

The bill would place responsibility on the wireless providers to verify age or face stiff fines -- even private citizens who have open access in their homes are susceptible to these fines. In other words, if a child next door leeches off your Wi-Fi network and accesses pornography through it, you could be fined $1,000.

XMission, a Salt Lake City based Wi-Fi provider has estimated that it would cost $5,000 per month to implement the verification process. Placing the burden of the verification process on the provider is considered unfair by many. If kids are dedicated enough, they'll always find a way around these road-blocks, and in this case it would be very easy since the specifics of the blockage would only affect sites hosted in the U.S. In our opinion, the best solution is for parents to actually parent and teach their children what is appropriate and apply the right amount of supervision to keep their kids out of trouble.

From ArsTechnica

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High-Def Adult Movies Coming to Blu-ray

by Tim Stevens, posted Jan 11th 2008 at 12:36PM

If we've learned anything in the past week it's that pollsters get it wrong sometimes -- way wrong. So, despite most people calling the high-definition format war for Blu-ray (including ourselves) some still had hope for the underdog format thanks to one thing: porn. Now that advantage seems to be going away, with a few major adult studios pledging to support both formats equally.

It's long been held that Sony didn't want adult filth polluting its pristine Blu-ray format, and for that reason the adult film industry embraced the HD-DVD format early on. This reminded many of the VHS vs. Betamax format wars in the 80's, where Sony didn't want porn on its format then either, leaving many nudie aficionados with nowhere to turn but VHS. The rest is history.

However, Sony seems to be easing its moral misgivings this time, with Digital Playground and Hustler announcing they will be releasing films in both formats. Yes, the majority of high-def porn is still on HD-DVD (or direct for download online), but surely more will be coming to Sony's format in the very near future, leaving HD-DVD's future looking that much more bleak.

From www.t3.com

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Teacher Uses Cell Phone to Show Porn to High School Students

by Tim Stevens, posted Dec 7th 2007 at 5:35PM

Substitute Teaches Birds and Bees with Cell Phone Porn

Alright, so we don't have much info on this one yet, but we couldn't resist bringing this story to your attention. A substitute teacher in Bixby, OK is accused of using a very unusual teaching aid when subbing in for a class of 14- and 15-year-olds. According to a number of the students, the unnamed teacher took out his cell phone and showed them pornography on it.

It's unknown just what sort of porn it was, or where it came from -- these are the sorts of details you can't really expect a local news channel to pursue, apparently. There's no word from the substitute teacher himself, who is no longer working for the school and has directed all contact to his lawyer. A smart move that, much smarter than bringing porn to school and showing it to minors!

Well, at least he didn't serve it up at a news conference.

From KOTV.com

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Viewing Porn at Work Even Easier With New Tech

by Ryan Rayhill, posted Oct 22nd 2007 at 2:02PM

Despite the ever increasing Web surfing limits placed on employees at work, it looks like porn in the office is still an ongoing issue for many companies, according to a recent USA Today article. About 65% of U.S. employers use monitoring software, but the advent of wireless Internet and gadgets such as BlackBerrys and iPods have made continuous monitoring almost impossible, according to the CEO of PR firm RLM, Richard Laermer.

"There is nothing you can do," Laermer tells USA Today. "Liability is the thing that keeps me up at night, because we are liable for things people do on your premises. It's serious. I'll see somebody doing it, and I'll peek over their shoulder, and they'll say, 'I don't know how that happened.' It's like 10-year-olds. And it's always on company time."

Though many employees claim that ending up on such sites is often accidental, others troll the naughty sites at work for the thrill of it and some even claim to have a medical reason for doing so, like James Pacenza, a former IBM employee and Vietnam vet who said that his at-work porn-viewing helped him to get over post-traumatic stress disorder.

Pacenza was fired from IBM in 2003 for his porn habit, but he's currently suing the company because he found it unfair that those with drug or alcohol problems were allowed to continue at the company with treatment while he was not, citing his age as the real reason he was let go (though he has since dropped the age-discrimination claim). IBM is trying to get the case dismissed.

So what's next, a cell-phone and Wi-Fi network blocker for the workplace like they have at Apple announcements every time Steve Jobs unveils a new product?

From USA Today

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Porn Spammers Get Prison Time

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Oct 16th 2007 at 11:10AM

Pornographic Spammers Get 5 Years in Jail

About the only creature lower on the totem pole than the nefarious telemarketer is the spammer. With these creeps, you can't even take solace in the fact that they're only doing their job, which is why it fills us with a sick sense of giddiness every time one of these obnoxious mass-e-mailers gets tossed in the clink.

The latest bozos to get nailed for filling our In-boxes with junk e-mail are Jeffrey A. Kilbride, 41, of Venice, California, and James R. Schaffer, 41, of Paradise Valley, Arizona, who should be spending roughly the next five years for e-mailing graphic porn images advertising hard-core sex sites. Anyone who received the e-mail was able to view them.

Kilbride was sentenced to 72 months behind bars, while Schaffer will be spending the next 63 alongside him. The difference in sentences is due to Kilbride being charged with obstruction of justice for trying to prevent a witness from testifying against the duo. Otherwise both men were charged with sending spam messages with forged headers and domain names, conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, and obscenity -- all under the Can-Spam Act.

In addition to their jail sentences, Kilbride and Schaffer were fined $100,000 and ordered to pay $77,500 to AOL (Switched.com's parent company). They also had to cough up $1.1 million in illegal proceeds.

Anything that prevents more spam from coming to our In-box is a-okay with us.

How about you? Do you think these guys got what they deserved, or is the sentence too harsh? Let us know.

From Information Week

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Politician Blames Porny PowerPoint on Son

by Tim Stevens, posted Oct 5th 2007 at 3:17PM

Political Powerpoint Shows Kids More than Anticipated

Some stories are just too good to make up. Such is the story of Ohio State Representative Matt Barrett. He was giving a Powerpoint presentation to a group of high schoolers when something unexpected showed up on the screen: porn. Yes, a whole directory of the naughty stuff was on the same thumb drive from which Barrett was showing the presentation. Somehow it was displayed on screen as he spoke to the students.

Barrett initially claimed the stick was given to him as a gift and had no idea where the stuff came from. As of today, however, he is blaming his son for the transgression.

Barrett has issued a statement calling this an "internal family matter" and asking that the media "respect for our privacy as we deal with this situation."

We're all dying to hear what sort of father son talk this will create.

From WKYC-TV and TechCrunch

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Best Buy Employee Caught Perving Out

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Jul 6th 2007 at 1:36PM

Perhaps Best Buy should have named its computer diagnostic and repair division Perv Squad. Following April's incident in which one of its Geek Squad technicians was caught videotaping a customer while she showered, a second employee has now been videoed copying porn files from a customer's computer onto his own drive.

The video was captured as part of a sting operation run by the Web site, The Consumerist. The Consumerist set up a PC with software to capture a video log of all on-screen activities. It then dropped off the PC at several different Geek Squad locations and asked for help with simple tasks like installing iTunes. Most technicians performed their duties without any snooping, sometimes even doing it for free at the counter. But one unnamed 'Agent' (as they call themselves) helped himself to personal folders sitting on the desktop. When he discovered they were full of pornographic images and video, he copied the folders onto a USB thumb drive.

The Consumerist ran the sting after an anonymous Geek Squad employee admitted that hunting for nudie pics on the hard drives of customers is a regular practice amongst technicians. When asked to comment on the video, a Best Buy official called it an isolated incident and asked for the name of the Agent in question so he could be fired. The Consumerist refused to name names, claiming that this was not an isolated incident, but proof of a systemic problem.

Either way, it's hilarious, and proof that it's always wise to remove anything you don't want discovered on your PC before taking it in for service -- with Geek Squad or anyone else.

From Boing Boing and The Consumerist

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Surprise, Surprise: Internet Porn Is Popular

by Evan Shamoon, posted May 15th 2007 at 12:03PM

DISCLAIMER: This video straddles the line between what is and what isn't safe at work. Watch at your own risk.

If you can't watch, let us tell you about it. Courtesy of Good Magazine, the video lists some amazing statistics concerning porn's total dominance of the Internet. But instead of using boring pie charts, Good has gone and written the statistics in magic marker on the skin of a very attractive young lady. And, actually, there is a pie chart in there!

Though it's far from breaking news that Internet porn is so popular, these numbers are pretty amazing:

12 percent of all Web sites are porn
25 percent of all search engine requests are for porn
35 percent of all Internet downloads are pornographic
Every second, 28,258 Internet users are viewing porn
89 percent of porn is created in the U.S.
$2.84 billion in revenue was generated from U.S. porn sites in 2006
70 percent of the Internet porn traffic occurs during the nine to five workday
260 new porn sites go online daily

Well, we don't want to spoil the whole thing for you...

From TechCrunch

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Rising Online Child Abuse Complaints

by Tom Conlon, posted Apr 18th 2007 at 8:30AM

According to its 2006 numbers, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is reporting a 34-percent increase in online child abuse complaints since 2005. Though some of the increase is due in part to greater awareness of the IWF itself, the report also points to newer methods being employed by illegal sites for avoiding detection or legal action. One such method involves cutting up pornographic images into several smaller, seemingly innocuous images, and hosting them on various servers all over the world, only to piece them back together on a Web page. Another method is to frequently relocate servers to foreign countries -- a tact that has helped one scofflaw site stay online despite 224 complaints since 2002.

The report also identifies the United States as the country of origin for a majority of the Web sites the IWF received complaints about: nearly 55 percent. Russia was number two with more than 28 percent.

From BBC News

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New iPhones are "Porn-Friendly," Says Time Magazine

Three ISPs, France, Other Countries to Block Child Porn Web Sites

Teacher Fired For Viewing Pornography Sues District

Adult Film Stars Reveal Their Gadget Faves

Proposed Law Requires Age Verification on Public Wi-Fi Networks

High-Def Adult Movies Coming to Blu-ray

Teacher Uses Cell Phone to Show Porn to High School Students

Viewing Porn at Work Even Easier With New Tech

Porn Spammers Get Prison Time

Politician Blames Porny PowerPoint on Son

Best Buy Employee Caught Perving Out

Surprise, Surprise: Internet Porn Is Popular

Rising Online Child Abuse Complaints

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