If there’s one industry that’s been hit hard by the piracy business, it’s probably porn. The fightback is underway, with lawyers arming up worldwide, but has a new lawsuit uncovered a pretty shocking clause? Read more
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If you prefer to spend most of your web browsing time on the wrong side of the watershed, watch out if you see your other half near your laptop brandishing this USB. It is designed to hunt out your seediest downloads, no matter how well hidden they are. Read more
The Apple iPhone 4S has set a pretty predictable trend for Apple’s iPhone naming conventions for the future. After the next handset, the iPhone 5, we can pretty safely assume they’ll launch the iPhone 5S. Figured that out? You’re not alone: Porn pushers beat you to it. Read more
Remember that porn bunker we told you about yesterday? The one set to keep the internet awash with smut even after the prophesied 2012 apocalypse? We’ve just been passed the blueprints for it. These guys are taking the end of the world very seriously indeed.
If it wasn’t for adult entertainment, we would not be able to watch video online, or pay for anything online. Pay per view and VHS would not have come and gone. Now, yet again there’s a technological hole, and the adult entertainment industry is plugging it, so to speak. Or rather, an online swingers club is plugging it, namely, Swinging Heaven, which is launching a 3D webcam chatroom.
A UK porn ban could be on the cards as the government prepares to meet ISPs in January to discuss a requirement for users to specifically request access to porn rather than just being able to plug rude terms into the search engine of their choice. The thinking behind the plans is based on the “think of the children” rational.
Conservative MP Claire Perry told the Sunday Times: “We are not coming at this from an anti-porn perspective. We just want to make sure our children aren’t stumbling across things we don’t want them to see.” Is this a slippery slope to censorship or simply good sense? Let us know by clicking on the headline and getting involved in the comments.
Picture by Mr Andrew Murray on Flickr.
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Our stories on adult content being easy to find on Flickr had readers telling us of similar experiences, and catapulted the topic into our most viewed pages. Now, further to its comment on Monday, Yahoo! has responded with the following statement…
The surprise Flickr porn we reported on yesterday raises questions about adult material being easily available, even when you’re being guarded by a website’s own SafeSearch functions. So what should you do if you’re worried? We’ve spoken to ISPs and web security experts to find out how you can protect yourself, and your kids, from unintentional stumbles into Smutville.