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Mobile porn cash to hit $3.3bn
News Europe is the biggest spender on porn, due to both its appetite for smut and the relatively high-priced nature of adult content. However, highly dedicated smut watchers are unlikely to be getting their content on their mobiles, said Juniper. [28 Nov 2006]
Web smut labelling plan still on cards
News The US Department of Justice has stepped up its defence of a proposal to imprison website operators who don't label pages containing sexually explicit material. The idea, outlined in an April speech by attorney general Alberto Gonzales, is... [19 Sep 2006]
Sex sites facing law to clean up their act
News The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would make it a federal felony for webmasters to use innocent words such as 'Barbie' or 'Furby' but actually feature sexual content on their sites. [26 Jul 2006]
Porn scandal shames DVLA
News The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has dismissed 14 members of staff at the licensing centre in Swansea for distributing pornographic email attachments to people outside the centre. An employee at the centre told the South Wales Evening... [22 Jun 2006]
Websites told: Label smut or face prison
News Operators of commercial websites with sexually explicit content would have to post warning labels on each offending page or face imprisonment under a new proposal in the US Senate. Caving in to earlier demands from the US Department of Justice, the... [15 Jun 2006]
Icann vetoes sex suffix
News Internet regulator Icann has voted down a proposal to create a domain for adult websites. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' board on Wednesday voted nine to five against the proposal, which would have led to the creation of a... [11 May 2006]
Porn deluge ends as Google fixes smut glitch
News A technology glitch temporarily turned Google's new personal listings service, Google Base, into a vast, virtual red-light district earlier this week. Launched last week, Google Base is the search company's foray into free classified listings and... [24 Nov 2005]
Gay-porn hackers strike Italian politics
News The Italian Senate has been the subject of a hack attack by cybercriminals who uploaded images of gay porn onto screens all around the senate building. The hack was made possible due to an infection by a variant of the Rbot worm, a backdoor Trojan... [24 Nov 2004]
Official: Work email is being used for work, shocker
News The amount of pornography, jokes and other non-work related emails being sent via office email systems is actually showing signs of decline - dropping over the past six months to levels well below the comparable period last year. [08 Sep 2004]
Playboy 'hacker' just a shelf-stacker slacker
News While it might seem Hugh Hefner's smut empire got off lightly with just a $100 bill to keep the hacker at bay, the true financial cost of the fake security breach ran into thousands as the bunny business was forced to review its security... [29 Jun 2004]
XXX spammer hit with record fine
News And those users duped weren't just those who were tempted by the chance to look at some smut. A spammer who bombarded users with pornographic emails that launched a premium rate dialler has been handed a record fine. [18 Feb 2004]
5 years ago: Playboy gets legal with browsers
News A story last month on silicon.com shows that Hugh Hefner won't have his trademarks linked with just any old smut. 15.02.1999: US men's magazine Playboy has filed a lawsuit against Netscape and Excite, claiming the internet search engines are making... [13 Feb 2004]
Virus warning: 'Look at these smutty snaps of Julia Roberts'
News Curious smut-seekers are in danger of infecting their machines with the mass-mailing worm MyLife.M, which purports to be a screensaver featuring the Notting Hill star. Users hoping for a sneaky peek at some candid shots of Hollywood star Julia... [07 Jul 2003]
Smut and scams infest kids’ inboxes
News The findings of a new study will disturb but probably not surprise parents of young Net users: Spam is miring kids' online experience with smut and scams. According to research conducted by Applied Research and commissioned by Internet security... [10 Jun 2003]
KaZaA involved in child porn investigation
News The two reports will be released at a hearing titled "Stumbling Onto Smut" that will be convened before the Government Reform Committee. Peer to peer networks are once again under the legal spotlight - though this time it is the exchange of... [13 Mar 2003]
