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News Bytes Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 11:28am EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Bomb on Russian Bus Kills at Least 8. News Article Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 11:25am EDT US Supreme Court Justices weigh porn, free speech. Several Supreme Court justices yesterday seemed to be looking for ways to save Congress's latest attempt to prosecute those who would promote child pornography, even though a lower court said the federal law is a violation of free speech. The justices struggled with whether the prohibitions Congress erected to try to stop the spread of child pornography, particularly on the internet, were so broad that they could also capture movie reviewers who wrote about depictions of teen sex in movies such as American Beauty and Traffic or documentarians recording abuse in Third World countries. But if the justices spent the first part of hour-long oral arguments constructing troublesome hypotheticals for Solicitor General Paul Clement, who was defending the federal law, they spent the latter part knocking them down. "I had thought that the purpose of the First Amendment was to protect speech that had some value, and that the reason obscenity is excluded entirely from First Amendment protection is that it has no redeeming social value," said Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia was one of the dissenters in 2002 when the court struck down parts of the Child Pornography Protection Act because they were written so broadly that, as Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote, they could cover a production of Romeo and Juliet. News Article Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 11:24am EDT ImLive Party to Welcome 10 Millionth Member. ImLive will hold an online party Thursday through Monday to celebrate the enrollment of its 10 millionth member. "At this party, we expect our hosts and members alike to get down and dirty while doing what they want and not what they need," said ImLive spokesperson Carole Wood. The 10 millionth member will join during the party and receive $1,000 in live-chat credit. Additionally, each of the top 10 spenders will receive $200 in credit, and every member will receive a $10 credit when making his or her first credit purchase during the party. News Article Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 11:23am EDT Joe Francis Fights Back Against His Los Angeles 'Sexual Harassment/Sexual Battery' Accuser. Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis announced that the "You Be The Judge" section of his MeetJoeFrancis.com website has turned its attention to yet another frivolous lawsuit brought against Francis and his company, this time for sexual harassment and sexual battery. Recently, Francis's website exposed the misrepresentations of two women who had sued Francis for supposedly using footage of the women without their permission. When Francis's website MeetJoeFrancis.com/YouBeTheJudge posted video that showed the women clearly giving their full permission for Girls Gone Wild to use the footage, the women quickly withdrew their lawsuit and issued a public apology to Joe Francis and Girls Gone Wild. Now, Joe Francis is fighting back against another frivolous lawsuit, this time brought by Tranae Hammond, who worked at the Girls Gone Wild call center in Los Angeles. Hammond claims that Francis is responsible for her wrongful termination and also made claims of sexual harassment and sexual battery -- even though she has never even met Francis. The call center is one of five corporate locations in Los Angeles where Mantra Films employees over 375 people. Hammond was terminated in July 2006 after accumulating 13 different warnings for workplace infractions, primarily for being late and for missing days of work. Francis rarely visits the call center. Hammond never met Francis, yet she names him personally in a lawsuit filed by Torance, California attorney Matthew J. Matern in which she claims that her termination was based on her gender, and that Joe Francis caused her "great physical and emotional harm." Her complaint alleges "emotional and mental stress, anguish, humiliation, embarrassment, fright, shock, pain, discomfort, depression and anxiety" -- and that some of these injuries are "permanent in nature." News Article Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 11:22am EDT 13 charged in Philippines for Internet pornography. For allegedly editing and providing pornographic materials to Internet websites, the National Bureau of Investigation has filed criminal charges against 13 people who also allegedly used legitimate "outsourcing" companies in Pasig City as fronts. Angel Dalumpines, head agent of the NBI’s Special Task Force, surveillance showed that incorporators and employees of Stratvisions Inc., Mytuscany Inc. and Versomina Corp. at Centerpoint building, Garnett Road, Ortigas, "enhanced" smut pictures and videos which were then transmitted to their clients. The materials, he said, were then posted on the Internet and accessed by paying customers. The suspects, who were charged with violation of Article 201 (obscene publications and exhibitions and indecent shows) of the Revised Penal Code, were identified as: Jose Zarate, Ramon Velasco, Teresa Punzalan, Francis Ademe, Reynaldo Dimla, Avaline Calata, Virgilio Custodio, Jerry Javelosa, Jose Reyes, Ernesto Alano, Alberto Garcia, Jovy Flores and Joel Aquino. News Article Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 11:21am EDT Longtime Dane Productions vice president Bob called AVN this morning to announce that Ed, the owner, has abruptly closed down the business, effective immediately. "We came in this morning at 8 o'clock," Bob said. "Ed called me, and he said, 'I want to do a conference call with the three [executives].' So when they came in, we put a conference call through, and he said because of business not what he expected it to be, he wants to shut the company down as of today. News Article Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 11:20am EDT Trick or trojan - watch out for Halloween malware. Surfers are warned to be wary this Halloween of malicious spam messages playing on Wednesday's horror-themed holiday. A run of Halloween-themed spam invites would-be marks to visit a site and download a "dancing skeleton", a malicious package that falsely claims to create a novelty dancing skeleton on users' desktops. In reality, the site (safe screen grab from F-secure here) is loaded with exploits designed to download a new variant of the Storm Worm (Trojan) onto vulnerable Windows PCs. Infected PCs become members of the zombie botnets of compromised PCs under the control of hackers. The malicious messages arrive with subject lines such as "Halloween Fun", "You'll laugh your but (sic) off" and "The most amazing dancing skeleton". News Article Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 11:19am EDT Whois database targeted for destruction. The long-running attempt by privacy advocates to bin the Whois database will be up for vote at the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles tomorrow. News Article Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 11:18am EDT 'Amy Fisher: Caught on Tape' Will Be Available to Consumers November 14th 2007 Red Light District, a leading production company that specializes in hard-core adult films, today announced it acquired the rights to distribute the Amy Fisher sex tape that will be titled "Amy Fisher: Caught on Tape." Red Light District made the transaction with Lou Bellera, Fisher's husband. The amount and terms of the deal were not disclosed. Red Light District made national news in recent years for its distribution deals of other celebrity sex tapes, including separate videos with Paris Hilton, Dustin Diamond, and Chyna. The company is known as the best distributor for celebrity sex tapes. According to David Joseph, CEO of Red Light District, Fisher releases her inner porn star. "This is the best sex tape made by someone high profile," says Joseph. "The quality is high, and it's super graphic. It's intensely hardcore for a mainstream audience." News Article Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 11:17am EDT Congress Votes to Extend Internet Tax Ban. The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a seven-year extension to an Internet tax ban, the final step before the legislation heads to President George Bush to be signed into law. The House on Tuesday approved the Senate version of the Internet tax moratorium, which would ban Internet-only taxes such as access taxes for seven years. The current ban has been in effect since 1998, except for a lapse during most of 2004. Many supporters of the moratorium had called for a permanent ban, but some lawmakers and state and local government groups had raised concerns that a permanent ban would hurt state and local governments' ability to raise money. Opponents of a permanent ban also questioned if telecom carriers would try to expand the ban to services such as VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol). Bush is expected to sign the legislation. He has supported an Internet tax ban, and he signed the last extension, passed by Congress in late 2004.  News Article Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 11:16am EDT Do-not-track lists to shield Net surfers. Most consumers are familiar with do-not-call lists, which are meant to keep telemarketers from phoning them. Soon people will be able to sign up for do-not-track lists, which will help shield their Web surfing habits from the prying eyes of marketers. Such lists will not reduce the number of ads that people see online, but they will prevent advertisers from using their online meanderings to deliver specific ad pitches to them. Today the AOL division of Time Warner will announce a service of this type, which will be up and running by the end of the year. Other programs are likely to be articulated soon, as online advertisers prepare for a two-day forum on privacy to be held by the Federal Trade Commission. AOL says it is setting up a new Web site that will link consumers directly to opt-out lists run by the largest advertising networks. The site's technology will ensure that people's preferences are not erased later. News Article Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 11:14am EDT Trick or trojan - watch out for Halloween malware. Surfers are warned to be wary this Halloween of malicious spam messages playing on Wednesday's horror-themed holiday. A run of Halloween-themed spam invites would-be marks to visit a site and download a "dancing skeleton", a malicious package that falsely claims to create a novelty dancing skeleton on users' desktops. In reality, the site (safe screen grab from F-secure here) is loaded with exploits designed to download a new variant of the Storm Worm (Trojan) onto vulnerable Windows PCs. Infected PCs become members of the zombie botnets of compromised PCs under the control of hackers. The malicious messages arrive with subject lines such as "Halloween Fun", "You'll laugh your but (sic) off" and "The most amazing dancing skeleton". News Bytes Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 12:16pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Turkish Helicopters Attack Kurd Rebels. News Article Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 12:10pm EDT Googlite explains PageRank tweak. Google has confirmed that the recent update to its "visible PageRank" system is an effort to crackdown on sites trying to rig this closely-watched web popularity contest. Over the weekend, Google search engine guru Matt Cutts told Search Engine Journal that the company is intent on punishing web publishers that attempt to sell their PageRank currency to other sites. A site with a high PageRank can often boost the rank of a less-popular site simply by linking to it. As a result, popular sites will often provide such links in exchange for cash. And Google doesn't like that. Here's the word from Cutts: The partial update to visible PageRank that went out a few days ago was primarily regarding PageRank selling and the forward links of sites. So paid links that pass PageRank would affect our opinion of a site. Going forward, I expect that Google will be looking at additional sites that appear to be buying or selling PageRank. Search Engines Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 12:09pm EDT Google's Paid-link Smack in the Face. The SEO world is abuzz today with Google's smack in the face to a number of websites that are selling obviously paid-for, keyword-rich text links. I read about it first at Andy Beard's blog (through Sphinn) but there are a number of other blog posts and articles cropping up as well.The gist of it is that the toolbar PageRank number has been reduced by a couple of points (or more) for many websites. The assumption is that this toolbar PR reduction is the same thing as a reduction in actual PageRank (the real thing that only Google knows about), and therefore this will affect the rankings of these websites. I'm not so sure about that, however. My guess is that the toolbar PR penalty is just that -- a lowering of visible PR in order to make a statement. When you think about it, it makes perfect sense. Make it appear that the website's PageRank isn't very high, and people will be less apt to want to purchase a link from that site. Well, at least those that are buying links only to subvert Google's PageRank algorithm. Those who are buying their link ads for the actual traffic won't care, and the PR smack won't hurt them. What I don't understand is the outrage over this. Everyone has known that if you're going to buy/sell links you shouldn't be doing it blatantly, and yet tons of sites are doing exactly that. Take a look at some of the sites mentioned in Andy Beard's post and look at the text links. If most of those aren't a blatant attempt to manipulate PageRank (and anchor text as well), then I don't know what is. News Article Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 12:08pm EDT Remote PC Repair, Part 1: The Warranty Alternative. Consumers and small-office and home-office (SOHO) workers often buy their computers from online stores or discount warehouses. They often reject add-on support packages at checkout to keep the purchase price low. If the computer breaks within 60 or 90 days, the manufacturer will handle the repairs, they reason. However, when the initial warranty period expires and the computer misbehaves or malfunctions, who to call for service often becomes a daunting -- and costly -- challenge. Big companies outsource maintenance and repairs or have an in-house tech staff. Consumers and SOHO/SMB entities are stranded when computer woes strike. Computer users from the ranks of consumers and SOHO/SMB workers often have few repair choices. They can ship the ailing machine back to its maker and suffer weeks without it. They can take it to an independent repair shop or service center operating out of a national electronics mega-store. A third choice -- which is only viable when hardware failure is not the culprit -- is to get technical help from a growing number of online and phone-based repair services. Dubbed "remote PC repair centers," these Internet-based tech support Web sites are fast becoming an oasis for computer users and small companies that lack IT departments. Social Networking Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 12:07pm EDT Over 25 Ways to Perfect Your Social Arena Marketing Campaigns (2 of 2). The next step is a bit of an art form in itself, but using this data, you should be able to pinpoint approximately 10-20 of the Most Valuable Keywords. The MVK's will have high search volumes (over 1,000 per month), low competition, and high click estimates. Each "threshold" for the selection is different for each industry and situation and with a little practice you will easily start to get the feel of how the data transforms into actual results. News Article Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 12:06pm EDT Three priests set up failed business called Shag. Two Irish priests accused of misappropriating millions from a Florida church had formed a mortgage company with another priest called Shag Inc. Fr John Skehan (80), originally from Johnstown, Kilkenny, and Fr Francis Guinan (64), originally from Birr, Co Offaly, are accused in relation to $8.6m missing from church coffers.The two men are accused of using offertory dollars to keep girlfriends, take gambling excursions and foreign holidays, and buy property. It has emerged the two pensioners invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Shag Inc, a failed mortgage loan scheme. Records show it was formed in 1984 and dissolved a decade later. The third priest has been named as Michael Hickey, a priest assigned to several parishes in Florida, who had a long history of drink driving. Search Engines Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 12:05pm EDT With a reported 22.1% of search traffic Yahoo is second only to Google's 64.4% (src: Hitwise) for search user volume so it is extremely important not to forget that attaining a top ranking in Yahoo can be a big boon to the bottom line. As a result, I decided to write this update on how to attain superior rankings in Yahoo using today's useful tools and tactics. Algorithmically Yahoo is Google's much younger sibling. I say this because many of the requirements for a successful ranking mirror Google's requirement about 4 years ago and they sum up to one distinct fact; optimize your content boldly on Yahoo and you will be rewarded. When I say "boldly" I do not mean use spam; by nature spam and optimization do not mix … they are two entirely separate concepts (black and white in fact). The following are the current generalized specifications for achieving solid rankings in Yahoo. News Article Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 12:03pm EDT Romania tackles child porn with software. Romania adopted a new computer system on Thursday to tackle Internet pornography, which officials fear may rise after the country joined the European Union this year. They say growing labour migration and easier customs controls will likely encourage the exploitation of children in the southeastern European country, which the United Nations already considers a top source of human trafficking. "The system was implemented today and we will start inserting facts in the database as soon as possible," Virgil Spiridon, head of Romanian police's cyber-crime unit, told reporters at a news conference.  Marketing Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 12:02pm EDT When Viral Marketing Turns Epidemic Does anybody out there use Yahoo Messenger’s chat rooms? If your answer is “not anymore” you’d be in the majority. If your answer is “yes,” then you’re probably a viral marketing robot. This post on theYahoo Messenger blog a little while ago inspired 872 comments. The post was supposed to be about some technical problems that Yahoo is having, but the common thread in all the comments is that all the accessible chat rooms are full of bots making automatic sales pitches. These bots need eyeballs to justify their existence, and they’ve driven those eyeballs away en masse. Yahoo’s chat rooms have instead become echoing chambers where bots hawk products to each other. This isn’t viral marketing anymore. It’s become an epidemic. News Article Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 12:01pm EDT Captcha-ing the power of porn. Internet users – many of them, at least – will do just about anything to see pictures of attractive women without their clothes on (the women are naked, not the Internet users … except, well, let’s not go there.) Anyway, you knew that. What you may not have known is that this oftentimes all-consuming lust for lascivious images can be leveraged by malicious social engineering types to turn those annoying antispam captchas we all struggle to decipher into tools for creating fake e-mail accounts. Such bamboozlement has been around for awhile, but two security firms Trend Mirco and Panda Software, have in recent days turned their blog spotlights on to the newest turn of the trick. News Article Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 12:00pm EDT Obama pledges Net neutrality laws if elected president. If elected president, Barack Obama plans to prioritize, well, barring broadband providers like AT&T and Comcast from prioritizing Internet content. Affixing his signature to federal Net neutrality rules would be high on the list during his first year in the Oval Office, the junior senator from Illinois said during an interactive forum Monday afternoon with the popular contender put on by MTV and MySpace at Coe College in Iowa. Net neutrality, of course, is the idea that broadband operators shouldn't be allowed to block or degrade Internet content and services--or charge content providers an extra fee for speedier delivery or more favorable placement. The question, selected through an online video contest, was posed via video by small-business owner and former AT&T engineer Joe Niederberger, a member of the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org. He asked Obama: "Would you make it a priority in your first year of office to reinstate Net neutrality as the law of the land? And would you pledge to only appoint FCC commissioners that support open Internet principles like Net neutrality?" "The answer is yes," Obama replied. "I am a strong supporter of Net neutrality." News Bytes Monday, October 29th 2007, 11:16am EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Olmert Says He Has Prostate Cancer. News Article Monday, October 29th 2007, 11:15am EDT Paris Hilton went on a rampage in a adult video store in Canada when she saw posters of her infamous sex tape. Paris walked into the store after seeing her posters and ordered to staff to bring them down from the front window. The store apparently has video footage of Hilton shouting: 'You guys can't use my image in a porn store.' She adds: 'I'm going to call my lawyer and sue the s*** out of this place.'She then began to take down the posters herself out of rage. She says: 'I really want them down because they're mean and this is not right. I'm really serious, this is sickening.' After Paris left, someone who claimed to be her manager told the store to keep the incident hush-hush or they would get a lawsuit. Naturally, they didn’t listen to the so-called manager and are currently shopping the video footage to the highest bidder. Search Engines Monday, October 29th 2007, 11:14am EDT Defend your Website from the Google Duplicate Proxy Exploit. There is a current and active way to knock a website out of Google's search engine results. It's simple and effective. This information is already in the public domain and the more people that know about it, the more likelihood there is that Google will do something about it. This article will tell you how it works, how to get a website knocked out of the search engine rankings, but most importantly, how to defend your own website from having it happen to you. To understand this exploit, you must first understand about Google's Duplicate Content filter. It's simply described thus: Google doesn't want you to search for "blue widget" and have the top 10 search terms returned copies of the same article on how great blue widgets are. They want to give you one copy of the Great Blue Widget article, and 9 other different results, just on the off chance that you've already read that article and the other results are actually what you wanted. News Article Monday, October 29th 2007, 11:12am EDT Long Island Lolita tape in porn distributor's hands. The world soon could be seeing more of the Long Island Lolita - a lot more. A sex tape of Amy Fisher and her husband, Lou Bellera, is in the hands of a Los Angeles porn distributor, and the onetime teen temptress isn't happy about it, her former business partner said yesterday. Fisher and her husband apparently made the tape earlier this year, before they filed for divorce, according to David Krieff, a TV executive who has produced reunion specials with Fisher, her ex-lover Joey Buttafuoco and Buttafuoco's ex-wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco. But in the time Fisher and her hubby were in Splitsville, Bellera hawked the tape to Red Light District Video, which is expected to start selling their steamy footage next month. News Article Monday, October 29th 2007, 11:11am EDT AIDS/HIV Crisis link to Gay Porn. A fierce debate is raging in the homosexual community over the impact of “unsafe sex” DVDs and videos on gay men’s sexual practices (sodomy), and the appropriate censorship of this ‘bareback porn’ material [featuring condomless anal sex] that some gay researchers cite as one of the factors helping to fuel the pandemic of HIV/AIDS (as well as STIs such as syphyllis) that has been ravaging the promiscuous homosexual communities. “The debate over its morality and dangers is heating up … over bareback porn both within the American porn industry and without,” says Douglas Jenkin of the NZ Aids Foundation’s Gay Men’s Health Unit “Today there is little outcry amongst gay and bisexual men protesting its existence [i.e. risky bareback porn], “and it’s easily dismissed [by gay users] as “fantasy” or “a choice”, says Jenkin Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, an “openly gay man,” has been accused by New Zealand’s leading pornographer Steve Crow of “double standards” when it comes to classifying this hardcore gay porn compared to straight (heterosexual porn). Hastings and his lesbian deputy, says Crow, because they are both homosexuals, are soft on gay hardcore as compared to the straight variety which he promotes for a living. News Article Monday, October 29th 2007, 11:10am EDT Indiana anti-porn group seeks to learn from Louisville ordinance. They're trying to take back their neighborhoods and they're doing it one porn shop at a time. A group from Jackson County, Indiana was in Louisville Saturday to learn how to get adult stores out of their neighborhoods. They're hoping to learn from the Metro's adult entertainment ordinance. WAVE 3's Shayla Reaves spent time with the group on their five hour tour. A affidavit from Jackson County mother Natalie Engle states she and her neighbors don't like the Lion's Den adult store and want it out of their neighborhood. She says it's not an issue about whether or not adult stores should be allowed to exist -- it's about the right for the store to be in their residential neighborhood. Changing Jackson County is what brought the people who live there to Louisville. Businesses that sell pornography are something they want out of their neighborhoods. Traffic Monday, October 29th 2007, 11:09am EDT Top 10 Reasons You Are Not Getting Links. Convincing other webmasters to link to your website is a difficult, yet rewarding Internet marketing strategy. Inbound links help increase traffic to your website in two different ways. First, inbound links create "click-through" traffic for your site. Click-through traffic is generated when visitors on other websites see a link to your site and click on it. Second, inbound links create search engine traffic for your website. Many popular search engines use the number and quality of inbound links to your website as a key factor in determining the position or rank of your site in their search results. The higher your website's ranking, the more potential traffic your site receives. There are many factors involved in convincing another webmaster to link to your site that are beyond your control. Rather than focus on those factors, let's focus on the top 10 reasons you're not getting links that are within your ability to correct.  News Article Monday, October 29th 2007, 11:09am EDT Hacker Criminals Find An Exploit In a Fix. Last month, InternetNews.com reported that a white hat programmer had discovered a particularly nasty exploit in Adobe's PDF format, and that Adobe was in the process of fixing it. Adobe issued a patch this past week and the first thing Russian criminals did was examine it, extract the problem it fixes, and have now unleashed a flood of PDF spam with an exploit in it that will install rootkits and Trojans on your computer. According to a posting on Symantec's Security Response blog, the spam contains subject lines like "invoice," "statement" or "bill." The attached PDF file will have names like INVOICE.pdf, YOUR_BILL.pdf, BILL.pdf and STATEMET.pdf. News Article Monday, October 29th 2007, 11:08am EDT Day Two of the GAYVN Webmaster Retreat. Day two of the first annual GAYVN Webmaster Retreat got started with a seminar called "Billing: Dollars and Sense." Moderator Brent Meredith of Maleflixxx led panelists Brian Silver of NetCash, Laurie Biviano of CCBill, Mitch Farber of NetBilling, and Jeff Thaler of Epoch through a discussion on merchant accounts and third-party processing, among other topics. When asked what a webmaster should look for in an ideal payment processor, Thaler stressed, "Know who you're doing business with and what their track record is.... There are some payment types we at Epoch choose not to use. That's something you need to research for yourself. And know what they're going to charge you." News Article Monday, October 29th 2007, 11:07am EDT Mozilla Prism: Refracting The Web Onto Your Desktop. Mozilla Labs has launched what it says is a series of experiments designed to "bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps." The first release is Prism the new name for WebRunner. Prism allows you to create desktop-like apps out of individual websites. As we mentioned in yesterday’s write up on GreaseKit, site-specific applications — essentially a web browser that handles one site — are a growing trend. It’s tempting to dismiss these apps as superfluous, but there are some advantages to them. For instance, if you keep your e-mail open in a tab while you’re browsing and your browser crashes, your e-mail tab goes with it. If, on the other hand, you use Prism to set up an dedicated GMail “application” your e-mail is safely partitioned off from the rest of your web browsing. News Article Monday, October 29th 2007, 11:06am EDT Facebook sued for mis-sending dirty texts. Facebook has been sued for bombarding the wrong people with intermittently-X-rated mobile text messages. Earlier this week, an Indiana mommy named Lindsey Abrams filed a federal class action suit against the Microsoft-propped social networking site. She's claiming that it sends thousands of unauthorized text messages to innocent bystanders across the country - and that many of these messages contain "adult content". You see, Web 2.0 addicts can use Facebook to instantly send texts to all their virtual-doo-doo-loving buddies. But sometimes users change their phone numbers without notifying the service, and Facebook sends the texts to the wrong place. News Article Monday, October 29th 2007, 11:05am EDT Online scammers exploit California wildfire disaster. The California wildfire disaster, like so many other tragedies involving loss of life, has become the subject of an online scam. If the history of incidents like the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and Hurricane Katrina is anything to go by, fire-themed malware is likely to follow. Net security firm Websense reports that its security research team has discovered suspicious online scams geared to ripping off kind-hearted people attempting to donate money to the Californian fire effort. "Unfortunately, as we saw with Katrina and several other recent emergencies, there are criminals who attempt to divert monies intended for the victims by creating bogus online donation websites and advertising them on high-traffic websites," said Dan Hubbard, vice president of security researcher Websense. "These criminals are trying to take advantage of the amazing outpouring of support locally, state-wide and internationally. Websense is aggressively monitoring domain registrations, email honeypots, and scanning the eeb looking for these suspicious sites." News Bytes Saturday, October 27th 2007, 11:04am EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Turkey Accuses EU of Harboring Kurdish Terrorists. News Article Saturday, October 27th 2007, 11:03am EDT Phoenix Jury Finds JM's Gag Factor 18 Obscene. After just five hours of deliberation, a jury composed of eight women and four men announced at 1:00 this afternoon that they had determined that Five Star Video LC and Five Star Video Outlet LC were guilty of obscenity charges for having shipped JM Productions’ Gag Factor 18 to an undercover FBI agent in Falls Church, VA. The jury found the Five Star companies guilty of the interstate transportation of obscene materials and the interstate transportation of obscene material by common carrier. However, the companies were acquitted of the same charges for shipping two similar JM Productions videos, Filthy Things 6 and American Bukakke 13. Traffic Saturday, October 27th 2007, 11:02am EDT Improving Adwords Profitability by Eliminating Low Quality Clicks (1 of 2) With increased competition leading to higher keyword prices, one of the most important metrics in a search marketing campaign is the conversion rate of clicks to actions. An action might be a sale, a lead, or any other desirable, quantifiable result. Faced with increasing keyword prices, maintaining an acceptable return from a search marketing budget requires constant improvements in the conversion of clicks to actions. News Article Saturday, October 27th 2007, 11:01am EDT Internet pioneer Cerf steps down after 7 years heading key Internet oversight group. In the 1970s, Vint Cerf played a leading role in developing the Internet's technical foundation. For the past seven years, he's faced the more daunting task of leading a key agency that oversees his creation. After fending off an international rebellion and planting the seeds for streamlining operations, Cerf is stepping down this week as chairman of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers. "My sentence is up," Cerf said with his characteristic sense of humor, which he and others credit for helping him steer the organization through several high-profile battles from which it emerged more stable and stronger. Cerf, 64, who's also a senior executive at Internet search leader Google Inc., joined ICANN in 1999, a year after its formation to oversee domain names and other Internet addressing policies. Cerf was elected chairman in 2000 and leaves the unpaid position after Friday's board meeting in Los Angeles because of term limits. News Article Saturday, October 27th 2007, 11:00am EDT Exhibitionist expo acts as a warm-up for Exotic Erotic Ball. The exposition hall of the Cow Palace is darkly lit, and thumping rock music makes plastic soda cups vibrate as they sit on tabletops. A woman at a booth gets up and strikes a sexy pose, prompting a platoon of photographers to gather like hungry sharks going after a wounded seal. Photo flashes illuminate the booth like a lightning storm. Soon, she tires of the pose and sits back down. The photographers slowly back away and wait for another impromptu show. Here or at another booth. As long as there's a woman who is prepared to show skin. "This was on my top 100 to-do list for life," said one of the photographers, an amateur picture-taker from Oakland. "Unfortunately, it only comes around once a year." The amateur cheesecake hour was part of the Exotic Erotic Ball, the yearly flesh-fest held at the Cow Palace. It's a two-day affair, with dozens of exhibition booths on display on Friday and today, capped with the actual ball - involving musical acts and X-rated film stars - tonight.  Working Smarter Saturday, October 27th 2007, 11:00am EDT Master Time Management with One Question. Time management advice is found in great abundance on the Internet. You can determine how to schedule your day, how to set your priorities, how to delegate, and how to tackle your to-do list. As a service business owner, you face an enormous number of tasks and responsibilities each and every day. What I've come to realize in my years of self-employment that my most valuable asset isn't my contact database or my marketing materials or my business plan. It's my time. News Article Saturday, October 27th 2007, 10:59am EDT Over 1,000 participants will attend Internet Forum. Well over 1,000 representatives from government, the private sector and civil society, as well as the academic and technical communities, are expected to gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the second meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), taking place from 12 to 15 November 2007. Participants will hold interactive discussions on a wide range of issues related to Internet governance. Among the topics up for discussion are freedom of expression, cybercrime, security, privacy, open standards, cost of access, multilingualism and diversity, measures against child pornography and protecting children from exploitation. The four-day United Nations conference, hosted by the Brazilian government, will take place at the Windsor Barra hotel, located in Rio de Janeiro’s Barra da Tijuca district. News Article Saturday, October 27th 2007, 10:58am EDT Gina Lynn doesn't know why so many porn queens name themselves Lynn, but she says it can make things a bit tense at times. "Ginger Lynn has always gotten on my ass about it," Gina, who's hosting a Halloween party tonight at the Plumm to hype her 2008 calendar, told us. "Then, just recently, another Lynn, Tiana Lynn, came up to me and apologized for using the name. I told her it was OK." So far, no word from Porsche Lynn or Amber Lynn. At her party, Gina plans to eat a cup cake off model Maria Smith, who appears with Kid Rock on the cover of Rolling Stone this month. News Article Saturday, October 27th 2007, 10:57am EDT Scammers get jail time for Microsoft software scheme. Four people have been sentenced to jail time and tens of millions of dollars in fines for buying discounted Microsoft software and then illegally reselling it at a profit. Mirza Ali, 60, and Sameena Ali, 53, the husband-and-wife owners of Samtech Research, were sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than US$25 million in fines to Microsoft for their role in a software reselling scheme run between 1997 and 2001. The Alis and their associates purchased more than $29 million worth of software at Microsoft's academic-discount rates and then resold it to nonacademic entities, making more than $5 million in profits. The two were convicted on Nov. 28, 2006, and had been awaiting sentencing. News Bytes Friday, October 26th 2007, 12:12pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Firefighters report progress in scorched California. Search Engines Friday, October 26th 2007, 12:11pm EDT Reciprocal Links Are (Still) Not Dead Reciprocal links are not dead. Weren’t dead before. Aren’t dead now. I know it and you know it. But for just a second let's pretend otherwise. A while back there was quite a bit of scare mongering going around the SEO industry about how reciprocal links were dead. I had a potential client once tell me that so-and-so-big-name-in-the-SEO-industry told them that reciprocal links were dead. I've said this before and I'll say it here again. There is nothing wrong with reciprocal links. It's all about how you use/implement them that matters. No, reciprocal links are not dead and now I have the proof. News Article Friday, October 26th 2007, 12:09pm EDT New strain of Gozi Trojan prowls the net. A new variant of the Gozi Trojan has been discovered, raising the specter of a comeback for the infamous malware, which excels at pilfering financial information even when it's protected using supposedly secure mechanisms. The new strain was first detected on Tuesday when Russian miscreants unleashed a small avalanche of malware-tainted PDF files that tried to remotely hijack vulnerable computers. Don Jackson, a researcher with security provider SecureWorks, said the exploit turned Adobe's PDF Reader program into a malware installer that loaded the new Gozi Trojan onto victims' machines. News Article Friday, October 26th 2007, 12:07pm EDT Senate OKs 7 more years of tax-free Net access, e-mail. Scarcely a week before an existing ban on Internet access taxes is set to expire, the U.S. Senate late Thursday voted to let the prohibition live on for seven more years. The compromise bill, which was approved by a voice vote, would prohibit state and local governments from taxing any service that enables users to connect to the Internet and some related services through 2014. That's three years longer than the version passed by the House of Representatives last week. The bill won't go to the president's desk just yet. First, the House must approves the Senate's changes. Congressional aides said they were hopeful the whole process would conclude before current law's November 1 expiration date. States that already had Internet access taxes in place before the ban took effect would still be allowed to keep them. They could also tax Internet services, albeit more indirectly, if they had already enacted broad-based laws that tax a business' gross income or receipts. Traffic Friday, October 26th 2007, 12:05pm EDT Video Marketing for Free Traffic. Using video marketing to drive traffic to your web site is an online marketing strategy many small business owners and internet marketers are beginning to embrace, with much success. Having a traditional website only allows you to reach those people who first find your website. However, combining video, social networking and some simple video marketing techniques can drive hordes of qualified visitors to your website. First, let’s forget the silly videos you’ll find all over YouTube of kids running into fences and demonstrating the newest dance move. While that kind of video can bring in hundreds of thousands of views, it won’t bring the targeted traffic you need. News Article Friday, October 26th 2007, 12:04pm EDT Lecture addresses the issues of porn industry. The Power of Porn, a multimedia presentation in which a former pornography addict and a former porn star share their stories, has come to UT for two days to start a dialogue about the effects of pornography and the sex industry on society. Gene McConnell, who has a personal history with sexual addiction, and former porn star Heather Veitch opened the event at Hogg Auditorium Thursday night with a short film asking UT students what they thought about porn. Answers ranged from "I don't know" to "disgusting" to "a wonderful invention."  News Article Friday, October 26th 2007, 12:03pm EDT Three UK gay porn actors infected with HIV. Three performers became infected with HIV last month during the production of a gay 'bareback' movie, according to UK gay magazine Boyz. The models were working with a 26-year-old actor who apparently had tested negative using a standard HIV antibody test. However, standard HIV testing allows for a three-month period when HIV antibodies may remain undetectable, and when the actor went for monthly testing just a few days after the production shoot in question, he was found to be HIV-positive. One of the three actors who became infected, Jay, said, “On all the shoots, we do everything: kiss, rim, fuck. I'm passive, but he didn't come inside me - that never happens in porn, it's all face and mouth. It must have been from his pre-cum inside me.” Working Smarter Friday, October 26th 2007, 12:02pm EDT Our company has built our own custom task management system that integrates with our SEO and Marketing client reporting system. It’s great. In fact, I’m a big fan of task management. But having a task management system in place, and even when used properly, still does not take care of all of my task management issues. For me, my email inbox is also another to-do or task box. In fact, the first tasks I accomplish each day are those “assigned” to me via my email. This is important because while our task system is comprised of tasks assigned internally, my email box is largely made up of tasks assigned to me by people outside of the office such as clients and prospective clients. Even the most important internal tasks run secondary to the inbox! So how do we manager our inbox tasks effectively? Here is my list of the most effective ways to manage your inbox task list: News Article Friday, October 26th 2007, 12:01pm EDT New Dutch child porn law legally problematic. Government plans to make viewing online child pornography a criminal offence are criticised by lawyers in today's Volkskrant.The lawyers say the measure is purely 'symbolic' and will conflict with privacy regulations. 'We can find out who the owner of a computer is but can we prove that person is the one who has looked at the pictures?' one top criminologist asked. News Article Friday, October 26th 2007, 12:00pm EDT Sir Elton's Photography Not 'Child Porn' A photograph owned by Sir Elton John, which was seized from an art exhibition amid claims that it breached child pornography laws, has been declared as not indecent by the Crown Prosecution Service. The photograph - 'Klara and Edda Belly-Dancing' by American photographer Nan Goldin - was seized by Northumbria Police from the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead in September, a day before it was due to go on public display.The photograph was one of 149 images, which made up Goldin's 'Thanksgiving' installation. The rest went on display at the gallery as planned. News Article Friday, October 26th 2007, 11:59am EDT Financing Your Startup: Some Essential Tips. The entrepreneur should be thoroughly familiar with where he or she will get the funds to start a company and with what "strings" might be attached to those funds. All sources of funding are not created equal, and the businessperson should know both the hazards and the benefits to each source. Here are the most typical funding sources along with both the benefits and the drawbacks of each source. News Bytes Thursday, October 25th 2007, 12:20pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Many Wildfires Brought Under Control in California. News Article Thursday, October 25th 2007, 12:18pm EDT Websites steamed after their Google PageRanks fall. The net is abuzz with speculation that Google is cracking down on link farms designed to artificially puff up the placement of websites after bloggers disclosed recent PageRank drops for more than a dozen sites. They include tauw.com, which watched its PageRank fall from 6 to 4, and Engadget.com, SFGate.com, Forbes.com and WashingtonPost.com, all of which saw their rankings drop from 7 to 5. Webmasters don't take kindly when the engine that by some estimates handles 60 percent of the world's web searches suddenly deems their sites' content less relevant. Google has yet to explain what is behind the changes. (The company's PR handlers didn't respond to our email seeking comment for this story.) So bloggers have been trying to fill the vacuum by advancing their own theories. Theory No. 1 is that Google, the world's most profitable seller of paid links, is punishing sites that try to horn in on the action (a Forbes.com, ironically enough, recently published a decent primer on page ranking payola.) Search Engines Thursday, October 25th 2007, 12:17pm EDT SEO Firms - Whom Can You Trust? Trust is always a tricky issue, and one that is emotionally charged based on our individual experiences with others as we navigate through the maze we call life. In search marketing, trust issues are further magnified by the fact that the industry is still in its infancy and there are no set rules or regulations. Let's face it, you'd be hard pressed to get a handful of SEO consultants to agree on a definition of SEO. Even amongst SEOs wearing the same hat color, there is often a giant chasm that divides us. Where does this leave the person or company who wants to hire an SEO firm, but doesn't know whom to trust? SEO A tells them one thing, SEO B another, and SEO C, D, E, and F completely different things altogether! Who is right? Who is wrong? Whom should they hire? Whom should they beware of? News Article Thursday, October 25th 2007, 12:16pm EDT Judge Dismisses Obscenity Charges Against Second Five Star Owner. Judge Roslyn O. Silver today dismissed obscenity charges against Chris Ankeney, co-owner of Five Star Video and Five Star Video Outlet LLC. Ankeney was charged with transporting obscene material and transporting obscene material by common carrier stemming from the sale of eight JM Productions DVDs. Judge Silver's decision follows her dismissal yesterday of identical charges against Ken Graham, the corporation’s other co-owner. Ankeney’s attorney Richard Hertzberg presented just three witnesses during the defendant’s case: longtime Five Star employees Ethan Singer and Nathan Garrett, and David Michael Pain, a private investigator hired by the defense to purchase materials comparable to those charged in the indictment. News Article Thursday, October 25th 2007, 12:15pm EDT Think globally, make porn locally? I got a call last week from a mainland porn director, Mark S. (Yeah, I’m friends with a porn director – call it one of the perks of being a sex columnist, along with all the women and cocaine I can handle.) He was doing a shoot here and asked if I could help out on set. Having nothing better to do, I said yes. As if the astronomical amount of hot-dog vendors and idiots playing Weezer covers at open mikes weren’t enough, our Sin City is finally stepping up to the plate and trying its hand at a mini-version of the porn industry. And more power to them, I guess. While it wasn’t a completely peachy experience, it wasn’t for the reasons you’d expect. In fact, I’m not too fond of the anti-porn crowd at all; if all or even a slight portion of the people involved in these flicks were being exploited and hurt, then it wouldn’t be called an industry. We would call it the “seedy porn collective” and xtube.com would have been shut down ages ago. Never once did I see anything underhanded, so help me Maude. With that said, though, my run-in with the slippery screen did have its downsides. News Article Thursday, October 25th 2007, 12:15pm EDT ICANN investigates domain name sharp practice. Internet oversight agency ICANN has launched an investigation into the possibility that insider information is being used to snap up desirable domain names before the person or organisation likely to be interested in them has had a chance to buy. ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee is looking into suspicions that someone with access to search requests has been using this data to snap up potentially desirable domains, a process dubbed domain name front running. Unlike traditional domain speculation, those who buy searched-for domains can be pretty sure of a potential interest when they attempt to sell their domains at a profit. Social Networking Thursday, October 25th 2007, 12:14pm EDT Over 25 Ways to Perfect Your Social Arena Marketing Campaigns (1 of 2) Social Arena Marketing takes time and patience, but when done correctly has tremendous rewards. The following are some ideas and exercises to help you get started in the right direction News Article Thursday, October 25th 2007, 12:13pm EDT Record industry pushes ISPs to cut off file sharers. The record industry is pressing the UK's ISPs for a deal that would see persistent illegal file sharers automatically booted off the net. High-level talks between the ruling council of internet trade body ISPA and the Music Publishers Association are aiming to settle the historic tension between the two industries. Comments from a government Minister yesterday hint that an unlikely bargain could be approaching. Lord Triesman said talks are "progressing more promisingly than people might have thought six months ago". News Article Thursday, October 25th 2007, 12:12pm EDT Webmaster Access West Seminar Program Announced. The seminar program for Webmaster Access West, set to take place Nov. 14-16 in Hollywood, has been announced. According to Eric Matis, vice president of marketing for ICS Entertainment, the show's seminar lineup "will be great." "We have many panelists that will be discussing topics for the first time at a Webmaster Access show, which in itself is very exciting," he said. News Article Thursday, October 25th 2007, 12:11pm EDT Pub may cage drinkers to stop porn litter problem. A cage could be built over a town centre bar's beer garden to stop drinkers throwing pornographic material over the wall. Debenhams has lodged an official complaint with Northampton Borough Council about drinkers at the Boston Clipper in College Street, a bar which is popular with Northampton's gay community. In a letter to the council, the department store's security manager, Kenneth Dowsett, said "items of a sexual nature" were regularly thrown over the pub's wall into Debenhams' staff car park. News Article Thursday, October 25th 2007, 12:10pm EDT 'Porn' protest targets naked Jesus. An Austrian anti-pornography activist is taking on Jesus Christ, or a least a sculpture depicting him. Martin Humer wants officials in the Alpine city of Innsbruck to take down a large crucifix bearing a sculpture of a naked Jesus Christ.Humer gained notoriety last year after he painted part of a statue of a nude Mozart and stuck feathers on it. Public broadcaster ORF reports he's trying to pressure authorities to remove the crucifix from a public square where it has been displayed for 20 years.Humer, an 82-year-old former photographer, says he and about 100 supporters are planning a protest tomorrow. News Bytes Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 12:15pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Russia's `Chessboard Killer' Convicted of 48 Murders. News Article Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 12:13pm EDT “Girls Gone Wild” Joe Francis, Misconduct Motion to Dismiss his Case. Joe Francis’ attorney Roy Black has filed a misconduct motion against Fla. State Attorney Steve Meadows, claiming Meadows exhibited a "pattern of blatant abuse" in his prosecution of "Girls Gone Wild" porn creator Joe Francis. Black is asking that the case against Francis be dismissed. The “Motion To Dismiss” claims Meadows violated Florida's professional code of conduct and infringed on Mr. Francis' Sixth Amendment Constitutional right to a fair trial. The motion says Meadows has a "conscious and brazen disregard for its professional and ethical obligations and the Constitutional rights of the [Francis]." According to the motion, Meadows made disparaging statements about Francis on an interview televised on VH1. Meadows violated the rules of the Florida Bar and Francis' right to due process by alleging on camera that Francis was guilty of smuggling drugs into the jail. The motion states, "The smuggling of drugs actually refers to the defendant's lawful possession of medications prescribed by his treating physician." Francis had two Vicodin pills in his shaving kit when arrested, which he says he has a prescription. According to Black, Meadows has repeatedly painted Francis as an "enemy combatant," so deriding his character that Francis will be unable to find objective people to serve on a jury. News Article Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 12:12pm EDT Age Record Keeping Deemed Unconstitutional: Ruling transcript. Majority on partially divided three-judge Sixth Circuit panel strikes down as facially unconstitutional the recordkeeping requirements federal criminal law places on producers of images of "actual sexually explicit conduct" to verify the ages of those depicted in the images: Describing the federal statute at issue, the majority opinion explains, "The plain text, the purpose, and the legislative history of the statute make clear that Congress was concerned with all child pornography and considered recordkeeping important in battling all of it, without respect to the creator's motivation." The majority proceeds to hold the statute facially overbroad and then strikes down the law as unconstitutional. You can access today's ruling at this link. Even the dissenting judge agrees that the statute is overbroad, but he believes that judicial narrowing of the statute can save it from being unconstitutional. You can access the ruling at this link. http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/07a0430p-06.pdf Job Opening Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 12:10pm EDT MaxCash seeks Skilled Web Designer/Developer MaxCash, a leader in the adult online entertainment industry, is looking for an intermediate level web designer/developer. Position will be Full Time. Responsibilities: Implementing the design and layout of various campaigns; Slicing approved designs and placing it into a PHP/HTML/CSS format; and, Creating eye-catching, modern front-end landing pages, banner ads and various graphics needed for special projects. Requirements include Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite applications; Knowledge of coding in HTML/CSS, PHP; Strong knowledge of typography, information and interaction design; Knowledge of image optimization; Flash skills a plus, not necessary. This is a deadline driven position and there will be, at most times, multiple projects ongoing. Please submit resume and portfolio and salary requirements when applying. Please respond to design@rcmailbox.com News Article Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 12:08pm EDT Porn ads invading council's websites. Porn website advertisements are appearing on Carmarthenshire Council's website, it has been claimed.Llanelli councillor Bill Thomas said he felt let down by the security of the authority's website and emailing system. The councillor, of Old Castle Road, said his council email inbox was regularly inundated with hoax and sex-related emails. He also claims that the authority's planning website contains pop-up advertisements for porn sites. "I have had lots of hoax and links to sex sites popping into my email inbox for the last year," he said. "Some of them are particularly bad - they are fake bank notices asking for bank account details. News Article Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 12:07pm EDT Library porn filters would block patrons' legitimate inquiries. A decade ago, the San Jose City Council wisely rejected a proposal to install filters on computers at city libraries to prevent viewing pornography over the Internet. Filtering was a bad idea then, and still is. Responding to a minor nuisance at the downtown library by dampening the rights of inquiry and speech of all patrons at every city library is an unacceptable trade-off. Council member Pete Constant's latest push for filters goes before the Rules Committee today. Mayor Chuck Reed supports it, so it's likely to end up on a city council agenda. But Constant should face the heavy burden of countering objective evidence that filters remain problematic. Although the technology has become more sophisticated since the late 1990s, recent studies by Consumer Reports and New York University's Brennan Center for Justice found that filters remain sweepingly imprecise, continuing to block out information on AIDS and sexual diseases and odd sites like the "Let's Have An Affair" catering company. In coming months, city librarians should experiment with various filters on a handful of terminals to draw their own conclusions. News Article Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 12:06pm EDT Judge Dismisses All Charges Against One Five Star Defendant. Late this afternoon, and over strenuous objections from prosecutor Ken Whitted, Judge Roslyn O. Silver dismissed all charges against Ken Graham, co-owner of Five Star Video LC and Five Star Video Outlet LC. Judge Silver noted that the government had presented only one witness and one document that directly tied Graham to the website www.fivestardvd.com, from which FBI agent Tod Price had ordered the four DVDs originally charged as obscene. She further noting that that witness, former Five Star employee James Puckett, had testified that Graham, who lives in Las Vegas, was only on the Five Star premises in Tempe, AZ sporadically – "He'd be there for a week, gone for a week," Puckett said – and that Graham had only discussed shipping procedures generally with Puckett. Social Networking Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 12:06pm EDT Social Media: You Built It, Now What? Web developers and designers for huge companies and niche sites alike are all jumping on the social media bandwagon, realizing that social networking, user-generated content, video-sharing and Widgets are more than just ways to kill time in the office; they can be incredibly effective in growing and increasing audience engagement.While it’s easier than ever to create and deploy social media, for many, the effort stops there. Kevin Costner’s famous line in Field of Dreams, “if you build it, they will come”, does not apply to making these online communities come alive. It’s futile to just dip your toe into the world of social media and hope it works. On the contrary, there needs to be a commitment to making the online community not just exist, but thrive. Marketing and promotion, programming, and community leadership are some of the factors that must be considered, whether you are a Fortune 500 company looking to extend your brand online, or a creative developer designing a personal site. News Article Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 12:04pm EDT 1 in 20 'finds Internet child porn'. One in 20 Internet users has stumbled across images of child abuse, a charity claims. About 1.5million adult Web surfers have been exposed to such photos, which increasingly feature the most severe forms of abuse. And nearly one in three children depicted in sexually abusive images appears to be under six. Most of the children are girls, a child abuse charity added. The figures were revealed as Internet companies – including AOL, Tiscali, Yahoo! and MSN – joined forces yesterday to mark the first Internet Watch Foundation awareness day. The organisation, which monitors suspicious images, said that while the number of British sites hosting images of child abuse was now almost zero, it had reported more than 2,000 foreign-based sites to police so far this year. About 35 per cent of those sites contained severe images of abuse, such as child rape or bestiality. |
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