Web-Based Business Charged with Distributing Obscenity
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Two people operating the Internet business Movies by Mail have been charged with one count of selling obscene material.
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A developer of peer-to-peer file-sharing software is taking record-company giants to court, charging them with unfair business practices including collusion and monopoly-building.
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Avnish Bajaj, country manager of Baazee.com, was arrested for the sale of a sex video charged under the Indian Information Technology Act.
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Blog: As company battles accusations that it aids copyright violators, TorrentSpy founder launches filtering system.
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(InfoWorld) - A well-known director and producer of adult films has been indicted on obscenity charges for distributing his movies online and through the mail, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. The U.S. Attorneyâs Office for the Middle District of Florida, in Tampa, handed down a 10-count obscenity indictment against Paul F. Little, age 50, of Altadena, California, and MaxWorld Entertainment on May 17. The charges against Little, known as Max Hardcore, were unsealed Wednesday. Little and the company face five counts of transporting obscene matter by use of an interactive computer service and five counts of mailing obscene matter. Little is director, producer, and star of films featuring acts such as urination, vomiting, and "severe violence" against actresses, the DOJ said in a press release. The indictment alleges that Little, through MaxWorld Entertainment, distributed films that met the U.S. Supreme Courtâs definition of obscenity through the U.S. mail to an address Florida. The defendants are also charged with transmitting through their Web site five obscene video clips that were promotional trailers of the full-length feature films available through MaxWorld Entertainment Little turned himself in to authorities in California Wednesday. His arraignment is scheduled for July 12 at U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The DOJ is seeking forfeiture of the films charged in the indictment, all profits from the distribution of the films, and all property used to facilitate the obscenity, including Littleâs residence and the Internet domain names Maxhardcore.com and Catalinaxxx.com. The Maxhardcore site, in a warning on the front page, defends its films by saying the performers "are intended to be portrayed and understood as fully consenting adults." "Please note that these fictional accounts do not always exhibit safe sex, or the full range of real life relationships," the Web site says.
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Unwanted e-mail from affiliates of an adult-entertainment company have garnered a $465,000 penalty in a settlement with the FTC, the latest in the agency's successful crackdown on sexually explicit junk e-mail.
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Piracy Deterrence and Education Act would aid prosecution of Internet users who illegally distribute copyrighted works.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 3--RALEIGH -- An N.C. State University student has been charged with downloading child pornography to his computer, N.C. State police officials said Friday.
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The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic.
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An adult publishing company sued Google last week, alleging a dozen counts of copyright infringement. Perfect 10, a Beverly Hills, CA-based publisher of an adult-oriented magazine and Web sites, asserts that
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At least 22 people, including a minor, have been charged in what police said on Tuesday was one of Central Canada's biggest investigations of Internet child pornography.
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After a recent legal setback, a California company that claims its patents cover the streaming video technology used by adult Web sites is boosting efforts to collect money from a very different group of streaming video users: colleges and universities.    Newport Beach, Calif.-based Acacia Media Technologies Corp...
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A man who allegedly uploaded a copy of the film "Flushed Away" onto the Internet after getting a copy from an Oscar voter faces a felony charge.
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The men behind one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world are charged copyright offences.
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Gum shoes case porno peddler that sent smut through the US Mail At a time when phishing, malware and other cyber crime is hitting unprecedented levels, a federal grand jury has indicted two Ohio men who ran a website that used the US mail to distribute DVDs prosecutors claim are obscene.â¦
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Company beefs up online service for shipping business information between firms over the Net.
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Said the accused violated the &quot;CAN-SPAM&quot; federal law requiring e-mail containing sexually explicit images to be clearly identified.