Tag archive: porn

If you have been trying to visit an Apple iPhone website, but keep getting sent to porn sites Apple has good news for you. Apple is now the proud owner of seven domain names that make use of the term “iPhone” and various porn references. The eight domains in questions redirect mobile users to a porn website. Here is the full list of the domains in question: iphonecamforce.com iphonecam4s.com iphoneporn4s.com iphonesex4s.com iphonexxxforce.com… Read More

Google TV now has its first porn channel – adult film studio Vivid Entertainment launched Vivid for Google TV on Monday. The channel can be accessed by those with a set-top box running Google TV and a subscription to Vivid Entertainment’s website. A statement put out by LA-based Vivid Entertainment on Monday confirmed it was launching “the first TV app designed to make sexually explicit content available through the new Google TV set-top… Read More

It’s been quite a wait for interested parties, but the .xxx porn Internet domain is finally here. For 50 days from Wednesday, established companies from the adult entertainment world will be able to register with the domain. Once that time period is up, registration will be open to all. The company behind the .xxx domain, Florida-based ICM Registry, has fought for ten years to get the green light for the controversial .xxx domain. The go-ahead… Read More

It's no secret: One of the primary things people do online is look for pornography. Heck, you probably landed on this article entirely by accident, while trying to find pictures of things that are illegal in six states. Well, thanks to the newly established “.xxx” top level domain, you will soon be able to search for whatever your loins desire, without any pesky SFW content muddling the mix: According to The Register, ICM… Read More

In their ongoing quest for laughs at the expense of everyone else, hacker group Lulz Security has hit a new type of target: Porn. The group announced on Friday that it had infiltrated 56 porn sites, stolen and posted administrative emails and published an additional 26,000 emails and passwords from users of Pron.com. “Hi! We like porn (sometimes), so these are email/password combinations [sic] from pron.com which we plundered for the… Read More

No phone and no internet might make Jack a dull boy, but Osama found a way around the disconnect–through pornography and couriers. In an Associated Press report, government officials learned how Osama bin Laden conveyed email messages to his followers worldwide, despite having no internet access. He would type up email messages and save them to USB thumb drives. Then his trusted courier would copy the message and send it out at an… Read More

After years of debate, ICANN has finally given .xxx the go ahead. It will now be recognized as a top level domain and pornographic sites will retain their own customized URL signifier. According to the Washington Post, the vote was split and the final ruling actually contradicted the board’s Government Advisory Committee, which fought the action. “We are disappointed that ICANN ignored the clear advice of governments worldwide, including the… Read More

It's been a long time coming. But the fight over an adult-oriented domain suffix may be nearing an end. Politico has reported that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization in charge of approving and assigning the .com and .net suffixes, may approve the .xxx domain as early as Friday. ICANN is currently in the midst of a week-long meeting in San Francisco. The idea for the porn-friendly domain suffix… Read More

Actually, it took longer than we thought it would. Penthouse Magazine announced it would launch the first 3D porn channel on March 1. According to its press release, consumers will have access to 30 hours of content that runs from 11pm until 5am and to be refreshed on a monthly basis. “We are very excited about the launch of the Penthouse 3D channel. Our goal is always to deliver the latest technology on the world’s best platform,” says CEO of… Read More

We're not sure who is tweeting for Hugh Hefner lately, but he's coming off as a bit confused. Though he never stated that it will be available on the App Store, the 84-year-old magazine founder made the following tweet: “Big news! Playboy–both old & new–will be available on iPad beginning in March,” about 21 hours ago. He then clarified, tweeting: “Yes, all the back issues of Playboy will be… Read More

Sophisticates across the world, you may rejoice. One of America's classiest magazines, Playboy, will soon bare it all on the iPad, says Hugh Hefner, founder of the magazine. Every issue of the magazine, from 1953 to 2011, will be available and uncensored on the iPad in March, Hefner said in a series of tweets yesterday. The news is an interesting reversal for Apple, which has previously sought to keep pornographic material off of its App… Read More

Earlier this year, attorney Evan Stone filed three lawsuits on behalf of porn distributor Larry Flynt Publishing in response to the thousands of users accused of illegally sharing the company’s adult film This Ain’t Avatar XXX. However, Internet service provider Time Warner Cable is making things difficult. Attorney Evan Stone, who filed the suit, told CNET, “If you’re a pirate in these times, TWC is the ISP to have.” In order for Larry Flynt… Read More

It's a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in. So when Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn't take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist. With more than 3 million of the phones already sold, the adult industry stands to make big money on this new way to… Read More

Watching porn is good for your computer! That may not be entirely true, but a new study from anti-virus maker Avast claims that porn sites are far safer for your computer than conventional wisdom might expect, and far safer than websites from big businesses. By a lot. “We are not recommending people to start searching for erotic content, not at all,” Avast CTO Ondrej Vlcek said, “but the statistics are clear – for… Read More

It is a sad day for that cross section of both Apple and porn fans who have been hoping for ways around Apple’s ban on porn. In an e-mail to a customer, Jobs confirms that he believes Apple has a “moral responsibility” to keep porn off the iPhone. He does offer an alternative though: Buy an Android phone. In a copy of an email sent to TechCrunch, the Apple CEO responded to a customer named Matthew Browning, who was concerned with Apple’s… Read More