* I’ll start with this verrrrry interesting non-sex item that I hope doesn’t stay low on the radar, Teen accuses record companies of collusion, snip:
“A 16-year-old boy being sued by five record companies accusing him of online music piracy accused the recording industry on Tuesday of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.
In papers responding to the record companies’ lawsuit, Robert Santangelo, who was as young as 11 when the alleged piracy occurred, denied ever disseminating music and said it’s impossible to prove that he did.
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Robert Santangelo also claims that the record companies, which have filed more than 18,000 piracy lawsuits in federal courts, ‘have engaged in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud the courts of the United States.’
The papers allege that the companies, ‘ostensibly competitors in the recording industry, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and public policy’ by bringing the piracy cases jointly and using the same agency ‘to make extortionate threats … to force defendants to pay.'”
* ABC has a confusing article about porn and Blu-ray DVD, pondering whether or not porn will have anything to do with consumers’ choices around evolving home media choices and porn consumption. It’s little more than an old-fashioned application of “DVD vs. VHS” to a genre already hearing the death knell of DVD, but still, waste some time on Porn Factor: Why Erotic Movies Won’t Decide Next Gen DVD War. Oh, they just wanted to say “porn”.
* Why bother saying “porn” when you can be all like, OMG, DICK! I giggled like a schoolgirl when I imagined the schoolyard pride behind the Guardian piece, Schoolyard penis seen from space. (via Digg)
* As many of you can imagine, there’s an amazing amount of buzz here in San Francisco about Kink.com buying the historic Armory building for their new studio space. Even though Kink has the highest standards for what they do, detractors are jumping on the anti-porn, NIMBY bandwagon, including former SF Giants relief pitcher (and promoter of our ass + tit tastic yearly festival, Carnival) Roberto Hernandez. Mark Pritchard has a fantastic post about it on Metroblogging SF — Planning Commission to hold useless hearing on porn palace — and the comments (especially from “concerned citizens”) are seriously entertaining all on their own. Yup — we have conservative prudes here in SF; for further proof see Mark’s other stellar post Local far-right millionaire launches foamer website, about PayPal millionaire nutjob Rod Martin’s new right-wing website, thevanguard.org.
Image: adorable local porn star Satine Phoenix on the set for a Fucking Machines shoot at Kink.com (And hey — I recognize that porn set! That’s the spaceship set! I drank beer in there with prop builders before it was finished! Neat!)
