Adult Industry News

My prediction: Flash will die within 5 years.

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:15:05 +0000

I believe the new HTML 5 elements + Javascript could entirely replace Flash in a near future.
Here are some amazing JS experiments that really convinced me:

http://gyu.que.jp/jscloth/
http://editor.pixastic.com/
There is even some experimental OpenGL plugins for JS to handle 3d graphics.
What do you think?
Read more at: gfy.com

Some big page about AFF

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:30:17 +0000

Here is some great big thing I found about AFF. It has a lot of data if anybody is curious about or is interested in looking at numbers.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da…186/i10505.htm

EXAMPLE: (These sites are huge, look at the monster that is AFF, thats like half the people in the United States?!)
Website
Description
Registrants Since Inception

AdultFriendFinder.com
Our most popular adult social networking and dating websites
157,286,041

Amigos.com
Spanish version of FriendFinder.com, translated into Spanish, Portuguese and English.
39,538,454

AsiaFriendFinder.com

Chinese version of FriendFinder.com, features traditional and simplified Chinese character sets as well as an English interface.
39,027,179

Cams.com

Adult content live interactive video website where members pay per minute to chat with models who broadcast on the website via their webcams.
32,134,412

FriendFinder.com

Website targeted toward singles looking for love, romance and marriage. Also includes many social networking aspects.
15,193,757

ALT.com

Alternative lifestyle personals website, catering to users with fetish, role-playing and other alternative sexuality interests.
12,972,032

OutPersonals.com
Adult-oriented dating website for gay men.
6,450,968

GradFinder.com
Alumni directory where members can contact friends from elementary school through college.
3,405,783 *

IndianFriendFinder.com
Indian version of FriendFinder.com, where users can narrow their searches by specific criteria, including language, religion, diet, and caste.
2,649,215

Penthouse.com
Content-based website with varying levels of access to Penthouse pictorials, articles, videos and live webcams shows with Penthouse Pets.
2,151,796

BigChurch.com
Christian dating website with searchable bible passages and daily bible chapter e-mails.
2,107,133

SeniorFriendFinder.com
Website targeted toward people over 40 years of age.
1,966,467

FilipinoFriendFinder.com
Filipino version of FriendFinder.com, translated into Tagalog and English.
1,814,132

FrenchFriendFinder.com
French version of FriendFinder.com, translated into French and English.
1,702,431
Read more at: greenguyandjim.com

Sponsors using content providers as 3rd party 2257 custodians?!

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:30:15 +0000

IMHO The whole 3rd party custodian was a very progressive move by Big Brother. The beauty is that it makes it easier for freesite owners to comply with 2257… Even if it does take a little work on the part of us smalltime webmasters, it is a good thing because it actually makes it possible for freesite owners to specify their sponsors’ custodians as their 3rd party custodians. Hell… It should even make sponsors breath a sigh of relief due to not having to release to model ids to 1000’s of webmasters… Some who may not actually be real webmasters.
This system would work, as long as the sponsors have an actual custodian and are not trying to use the regs to their own advantage and passing the buck onto their content providers or the primary producers as their own 3rd party custodians… and I’ve noticed that alot of them are doing this.
This is where I get pissed off. Why would a sponsor not have his own custodian of records? I can understand having a 3rd party custodian who knows your sites, content used on each site, your affiliate ids and websites, but passing the buck to content providers or primary producers is rediculous. The content provider has already given up the the required docs when the content was purchased. If he didn’t then you shouldn’t use the content.
This practice leaves affiliates bare assed when it comes to compliance and any sponsors who have compliance pages that pass the buck to primary producers and content providers need their asses kicked. What happens when a content provider or primary producer refuses to provide inspectors document for images on a site owned by someone he never sold content to and has no idea who owns? Simple answer… A small-time webmaster gets a knock on the door from pissed off inspectors and ends up going to prison.

I don’t know how many sponsors I have dropped recently due to this idiotic policy and anyone who doesn’t do the same is gonna get caught with their drawers down when an inspector visits their sites.
Read more at: sponsorchat.com

Do people even bother signing up for new sponsors?

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:30:12 +0000

I don’t even remember the last time I signed up for a new sponsor. PPS sign ups are almost non existent, recurring also…. Cams & Video onDemand are ok,,,, Dating starting to suck ass big time. The summer is here, this does not help also. No need to mention the others that are killing the industry…
nuff said
Let me go work for FREE now.
Read more at: gfy.com

YNOT Reports: Exclusive quotes from attorney Lou Sirkin regarding Extreme assoc.

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:15:15 +0000

PITTSBURGH, PA – Robert Zicari and his wife, Janet Romano, owners of the now-defunct adult production house Extreme Associates, were sentenced Wednesday to one year plus one day in federal prison after pleading guilty in March to one count each of conspiracy to distribute obscene materials.
Continue at:
http://www.ynot.com/modules.php?op=m…icle&sid=50357
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We have some exclusive quotes from attorney Lou Sirkin in our original coverage at YNOT. Check it out and let us know what you think of this…
Big thanks to Tom and Kathee for getting this coverage…
Read more at: gfy.com

Credit Card Processing Company Authorize.net Knocked Offline

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:15:11 +0000

Illustrating the continued fragility of the modern Internet, threads in both the Zen Cart and Web Hosting Talk forums indicate that one of the country’s largest credit card authorization networks has gone completely offline. According to several posters, a "perfect storm" was created by the combination of a data center fire and the July 4 weekend holiday, resulting the company going completely dark for more than five hours and counting. The company’s phone lines and this Authorize.net website remains offline as of this writing. If your weekend beer purchase didn’t go through, now you know why….
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/C…Offline-103256
Read more at: gfy.com

How long can web 2.0 hold out?

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:30:11 +0000

I say 2010 sees the end of lets lose 100 mil a quarter to give people fun interactive websites. Myspace is dying, I see twitter as going that. I know "you" are making big cash there but they are not. I like and use facebook but I do not currently pay them for that priviledge so how are they making it?
One of these guys is going to hit the wall when they need to borrow again to keep going and that will be that.
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Who is the richest webmaster on gfy??

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:30:08 +0000

How much do you earn a month??
Maybe bill gates is regged on gfy lol.
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Forbes.com - The Inevitability Of Internet Pirates

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:30:05 +0000

Quote: Pirates are all over the news this year. They were off the coast of Somalia … and now they’re in Sweden? In April, a Stockholm court handed down a guilty verdict for "accessory and conspiracy to break copyright law" to the four owners of the Web site Pirate Bay, who now each face up to one year in prison.
Their crime? Setting up a site that allows 22 million users–and that number is growing–to search for and find pointers to (mostly) copyrighted material on the Internet. These so-called torrents are easily downloadable, perfect digital copies of music, TV shows, movies and, as it’s known on the Web, pr0n. Outraged at their courts, Swedish citizens got the last laugh when the three-year-old Pirate Party received 7.1% of the vote in the early June European Union elections, guaranteeing it a seat in the European Parliament. Argh.
The funny thing is, Pirate Bay doesn’t even host any copyrighted material for download, only directions to find it. If I were Google CEO Eric Schmidt, I’d hold off on that trip to Europe this summer. Because type "The Climb lyrics" into Google and you get pages of links to other Web sites with copyrighted lyrics to this Miley Cyrus song. Type in "Hannah Montana the Movie torrent," and you have a choice of download sites for a copy of the movie, all one click away. That’s "accessory and conspiracy," if you ask me.
Fortunately, we in the U.S. rarely pay attention to Swedish laws. Did you know it’s illegal in Sweden to repaint a house without a license and the government’s permission? But along the lines of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s remark–"Why shouldn’t we look to the wisdom of a judge from abroad with at least as much ease as we would read a law review article written by a professor?"–I say bring on the Pirate Party!
Copyright law and its interpretations have been a mess for years. I’m always amused by pay-per-use Xerox machines in libraries bearing a warning label not to copy copyrighted material–as if there was any other reason for the copier to be there. In 1998 Congress was happy to pass an extension to existing regulation, practically written by The Walt Disney Corporation, that extends artist’s copyrights well beyond their deaths. Google has inflamed the anger of book authors, a dangerous group who can type faster than most, by claiming it is allowed to put the complete text of books on its site unless individual authors opt out.
Furious that Internet news sites are using Associated Press content without paying fees, the AP announced tougher enforcement of their copyrights. In an attempt to show how twisted this has become, I (illegally?) copied the following from an AP story I found on Google: "’We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories,’ said Dean Singleton, the AP’s chairman and the chief executive of newspaper publisher MediaNews Group Inc. ‘We are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more.’"
For the most part, Google and others hide behind a simple concept, that they are in the "link serving" business. Ingenious, actually. Others may violate copyrights, their argument goes, but we just serve up links to Web sites that are doing supposedly illegal things, like hosting downloads. Google’s implicit claim is that they are not the police of the Internet, which would be quite an expensive task to undertake. And if the Web were strictly regulated, search wouldn’t be as lucrative a business. But are they in the same business as Pirate Bay? Will they soon fund the Google Party?
And who are the Web’s police? In the end, it’s courtrooms in places like Sweden. They’re not very efficient; they don’t fit the Internet model of scalability. So really, it’s no one. Like it or not, the Web is and will remain the Wild West.
Hand out as many guilty verdicts as you like, but folks on the Internet will copy away–because, really, who can stop them? Google won’t do it, Internet providers like Comcast and AT&T, who can block a lot of this stuff, can’t do it without Network Neutrality proponents squawking, "Interference!"
Even authoritarian regimes fail. (The Great Firewall of China is quite leaky.) Plus, it is so easy to create a Web service to download copyrighted material that, like that arcade game Whac-A-Mole, if you take one culprit down with your mallet another five pop up in the next few nanoseconds. Sad but true, there is not much anyone can do.
If you want to understand how impossible it is to shut this stuff down, here’s an example. I’ve noticed that Pirate Bay’s servers go down every once in a while, for as long as a day. A note is put up that they have to travel to reset their servers, which are in an undisclosed location. My bet is Estonia. Or maybe Tuvula.
So make all the legal arguments you want. No matter what court decisions are rendered and no matter what laws are passed, copyright infringement is going to happen. So these folks should stop suing their customers and lobbying for more laws and instead come up with new business models that pirates can’t follow them into.
Rock groups Aerosmith and Metallica have had most of their library of songs stolen, so they have incorporated them into the videogame "Guitar Hero." In that format, they sell them again to millions of fans who want to do more than listen. High-definition movies are too big to download (for now), so Blu-ray disc sales continue to grow. The fact that iTunes is tightly linked to iPods legitimized digital music sales. The Amazon Kindle is kick-starting a protectable platform for electronic books. And newspapers and magazines need to create more than just a free display tablet to properly Webify their printed words.
New services–in areas from alerts to social networks to finance to interactive sports-fan participation–need to do things paper versions can’t do. These organizations aren’t in the railroad/media business anymore; they’re in the transportation/communications business. The distinction makes a difference. And in the meantime, expect digital pirates to remain a menace to the old way of doing things.
Andy Kessler, a former hedge fund manager, is the author, most recently of How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets (HarperCollins, 2005) and The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor (Collins, 2006).
http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/11/int…irate-bay.html
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Wordpress + redirect googe image traffic?

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:45:12 +0000

Hi
i searched, but i haven´t found something.
Is there at moment a plugin or code working for wordpress to redirect the google image traffic to a special page?
At moment i have the frame breaker plugin installed, but i would like to redirect the image traffic to a special site ….
GReets
Read more at: netpond.com