Ever asked yourself whether you should offer non-rebilling signup options, or what the right price point for your site is? I’ve done a good bit of experimenting in this area so thought I’d share my perspective. Of course every site is unique, so I definitely recommend testing this for yourself . . . I’ll show you how easy it can be using Google’s Website Optimizer. And to give credit where it’s due, this post was inspired by a thread over at SponsorChat. So for additional perspective check out this rebilling thread.

Rebills are what made online porn famous, though perhaps for the wrong reasons. Nonetheless, legitimate rebills can still account for a sizeable portion of your income, and it makes good business sense – it’s easier to keep a customer than to find a new one. So why offer a non-rebilling signup option at all you ask? There are a growing number of porn surfers who are uncomfortable with online subscriptions – maybe they’ve had their credit card banged by a less than honest site, or maybe they’ve just read someone else’s horror stories. And some surfers just know better than to trust themselves to cancel a recurring subscription. Whatever the reason, you don’t want to lose these surfers – based on my own experience at TheCrossdresser.com many of them simply won’t sign up if you don’t offer a non-recurring billing option.

Non-rebilling signups should never outweigh your rebilling signups. If they do, you are throwing away money by making it too easy for customers to opt out of the rebill. Consider your non-rebilling option a premium service. The market will support a certain upcharge for such a premium service, and you should strive to strike a balance between not losing customers who will only sign up if offered a non-rebilling option, and cannibalizing your far more lucrative rebilling signups. I’ve personally found that the best setup is to offer non-rebilling options only for multi-month signups (maybe 3 months for example). Offer the customer a discount (you are afterall guaranteeing yourself a 3 month sale here), but still make sure you aren’t eating in to your typical rebilling margins (if most people rebill for 4 months anyway, you don’t want to offer a discount 3 month option!). Your other option is to offer single month signups at a premium price point.

Setting price points for non-rebilling signups should be done the same way you set price points for your rebilling signups – by testing! Survey other porn sites in your niche and find out what they’re charging. Set up a base price structure that’s similar (after all there are other smart webmasters out there ), and then set up some options where you charge $5 more per month and $5 less per month. Find out which options give you the most sales, both in total dollars as well as in sales volume (you of course have to decide which if the best metric for your wallet at the end of the day). You might be surprised with the results – I get more sales at a higher price point than I do at a lower price point. If you don’t charge enough for your site, people assume that the quality is crap. Run this test for a couple months though – if you find your rebills falling off at the higher price point, it may be that your content really *is* crap and you can’t justify the higher price point

So I’ve talked a lot about testing in this article, but how do you do it? Google’s Website Optimizer makes it really simple actually. First start by setting up your different billing options in your biller’s admin panel. Most billers will let you set up different billing “profiles”, and then you just reference the correct profile on your join page. Make a copy of your Join page and save it with a new name. Point the reference to one of your new billing profiles. Repeat this for each profile you want to test. Resist the temptation to make any changes to the Join pages other than the billing profile – you want to test the price points and options, not which photo sells better or background color sells better.

Now that you have your Join pages set up, go to Google’s Website Optimizer – one of the tools available from Google’s Webmaster Tools. It’s free, so if you haven’t signed up for these you really should. Select the A/B experiment option – this is by far the easiest (and actually gives you more control, even though Google implies that the Multivariate experiment is somehow better or more advanced). Google will lead you step by step through the process of setting up the experiment, but basically you just add a bit of tracking code to the beginning of each of your Join pages, and then a bit of code to the end of your “success” page – ie somewhere the surfer ends up if they successfully complete a signup. That’s it. Just tell Google which pages you’ve put the tracking code on, and it will start dividing your traffic between the pages and tracking the results for you.

Errors happen. With all the web pages being loaded every second on the internet, it is no surprise that sometimes a page will not load and an error page pops up.

We all know the pages. 400, 401, 403, 404, 500. What they mean at this point really doesn’t matter. What matters is what happens to the surfer when he reaches one.

The standard error pages say that the page will not load, and gives a couple of possible reasons why and is pretty much standard. About the only thing positive on the page is that it suggests (as a last resort) going back and trying to reload again. Most surfers go from an error page to somewhere else and NOT back to the original error page.

What most webmasters do not know is that all the error pages are usually located on their own servers and do NOT have to be the standard version. You can easily use error pages to guide the surfer to another of your sites.

My 404 Page is an example of a redone error page. I try maximize the potential of an error page, I give the surfers options to stay within the network of sites I run. Here is my error page

It is a comfort to look at traffic stats and see referrers listed as 400, 401, 403, 404 or 500. Each one means another surfer who got saved from the horrible fate of clicking off of my sites.

Errors and error pages are part of the game. You should be using them totally to your benefit in my opinion.

Hello all!

Shaun here, owner, operator, and all around nice guy from  The Life Erotic . I will be managing the Erotic Photography section here on Ultra Webmasters and look forward to opening your mind to all of the great things this often overlooked niche can do for your business. I’ll share advice, insights, tips, trials and tribulations. Great info for those already promoting Erotic Photography, even better for those who are not –  but maybe could be. So bookmark this site, grab the RSS URL and keep connected with Erotic Photography Webmastering on UltraWebmasters.com!

The transgender niche in general is a bit of a complicated world, and unlike promoting big boob or pantyhose porn if you classify a transgender model with the wrong name you’ve probably just lost a sale. So you might as well start off right and learn the terminology. Besides, this is the most common question I get from other webmasters, so now I can just direct everyone to this post

First off, the transgender community and the porn world don’t always see eye to eye on nomenclature, so I’ll of course focus on names as they are used in the adult entertainment industry. Expect to hear from the occasional irate surfer who was looking for a new transgender support forum, but if you follow this guide you shouldn’t be offending any models or potential members. Generically, transgender adult models are referred to as tgirls or gurls. These are fairly polite terms and safe to use in casual conversation. Transgenders in the adult industry largely fall in to two categories: those with boobs, and those without.

If the model has boobs she is a shemale or tranny. Note the pronoun “she”, this is important. Also note that if you call a transgender on the street a tranny you will get slapped An Asian tranny would typically be called a ladyboy – this term is a translation of an actual culturally accepted gender role in Thailand. Ladyboys usually have small boobs which may lead you to wonder why they fit in the “with boobs” category. The truth is that with the exception of some full-time professional models, most shemales are saving up for sex-reassignment surgery (and thus they have boobs, are taking hormones, etc). In any event, the intent of this person is to live full time as a female, boobs are usually just the most obvious sign of this. Probably not a good idea to tell Joe Surfer that his favorite tranny model will be getting her cock chopped off soon though!

A tgirl without boobs is a crossdresser or transvestite. These terms have different cultural connotations (particularly Europe vs the US) so I won’t go in to details. Either is suitable. Some crossdressers intend to get boobs eventually, but many (like me!) are happy to keep their biological gender and just dress up like a female. In spite of this, crossdressers should still be referred to as “she”. Kind of like the way you would refer to an actor by the name of his character in a movie. Crossdressers come in two major varieties – those that try to look like a female (effectively the girl-next-door or amateur equivalent of a shemale), and those who like to be (forced to) dressed up but probably still look a bit like a guy in a dress. The later are usually called sissies or panty-boys and the use of the female pronoun is intended to be derogatory, whereas for the former type of crossdresser it’s more a sign of respect.

Ok, maybe more than you ever wanted to know about what shemales and crossdressers call themselves (or maybe not? if you want more information about crossdressers outside of porn, see this article). But the key points are:

• - Shemales, crossdressers, and any sub variety you can think of should be referred to as female
• - The term ladyboy only refers to Asian shemales
• - Never call a model with boobs a crossdresser (if you call a crossdresser a shemale or tranny there is a 50% chance you’ll get away with it as a compliment)
• - If you’re not sure, tgirl is probably a safe alternative . . . though search volumes for tgirl are pretty low
• - Surfers who are in to this niche know these names well, so use them correctly

BBC reported yesterday that from 25 May 2011, new EU directives come into effect which say that “explicit consent” is required when tracking users via cookies.  The new rules come from the European e-Privacy directive, and attemps to deal with behavioural advertising.

Behavioural advertising is mainly done by large advertising companies, where they track your surfing behaviour from one site to the next, eventually building up a profile and using that info to display ads on new sites based on your previous surfing habits. Just think about how many sites use AdWords, and how the AdWord servers can collect and easily compile info on your surfing habits if it chooses.

I think this is a great new law, but of course like every other internet law, I really don’t see how they will be able to enforce it other than big lawsuits against well known companies after the fact. But if your company is not located or branched in the EU, then what can they do? 

We have been having a discussion on GayWideWebmasters as to how this new law will affect adult affiliate tracking cookies. In my opinion, affiliate cookies are not being used for behavioural tracking, they are simply being used to store cart information, which is specifically excluded in these new rules. However, this is my opinion which really makes no difference on how the EU will implement its new anti-tracking directives.

So what happens if all the sudden using cookies with EU surfers are blocked? I know that NATS triple-tracks, via cookies as well as IP address and sessions. However, we are still waiting for information on how CCBill, Epoch and others track. Here is a direct link to this thread if you are interested in following it: http://forums.gaywidewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=35900

For bloggers, a few thinsg about customizing blog templates. namely “variables” and “Tags.”

They are almost magical if you arn’t used to them but they wil let you make your blog template all yours with a look and a feel that is unique.

Variables begin with . They can be used to output various bits of content on your weblog. For example, placing in your template will output the title of your weblog. Tags begin with <> and end with . Any content between them is modified in some way, or looped over and outputted multiple times. For example, placing in your template will display the title of each of your entries.

Today we will look at common variables. If you are using some that are not on the list please post them so that others may play around with them.

Variables List
- Weblog title and current page title.
- Weblog title.
- Weblog description.
- Weblog owner’s avatar URL.
- Weblog owner’s email address.
- The blog’s calendar.
- Weblog’s main page URL.
- Weblog owner’s profile URL.
- Weblog’s archive page URL.
- Weblog’s friends page URL.
- Weblog’s RSS feed URL.
- Photo Album URL
- Podcast Feed URL
- Contents only display on the main page.
- Contents only display on the view entry page.
- Contents will only display on the archive page.
- Weblog’s archive list.
- Contents will only display on the friends page.
- Displays your weblog’s custom links.
- Link title.
- Link URL.
- Displays your list of friends.
- Friend’s username.
- Friend’s weblog URL.
- Displays the list of members for this weblog.
- Member’s username.
- Member’s profile URL.
- Displays this weblog’s entry categories.
- Category name.
- Category URL.
- Displays a list of your recent entries.
- Recent Entry’s title.
- Recent Entry’s date.
- Recent Entry’s time.
- Displays this weblog’s entries.
- Entry title.
- Author’s username.
- Author’s avatar URL.
- Author’s profile URL.
- Entry date.
- Entry time.
- Entry main content.
- Entry permanent URL.
- Entry “Send This Link” URL.
- Contents will only display if the administrator has enabled entry categories.
- Entry category.
- Contents will only display if comments are allowed on this entry.
- Contents will only display if the viewer is allowed to post comments on this entry.
- “Post Comment” URL.
- Number of comments on this entry.
- Displays the comments on this entry.
- Edit Comment link.
- Delete Comment link.
- Comment title.
- Comment’s author username/nickname.
- Comment’s author avatar.
- Comment’s author IP address.
- Comment date.
- Comment time.
- Comment’s main content.
- Comment’s permanent URL.
- Contents will only display if trackbacks are allowed on this entry.
- Entry’s trackback URL.
- Total number of trackbacks on this entry.
- The RDF trackback metadata for this entry.
- Displays the trackbacks on this entry.
- Delete Trackback link.
- The sender’s weblog name for this trackback.
- The sender’s weblog URL for this trackback.
- Trackback title.
- Trackback content.
- Trackback date.
- Trackback time.
- Contents will only display if the weblog has more than one page.
- Links the contents to the previous page URL.
- Links the contents to the next page URL.
- The current page number.
- The total number of pages.

Do you know what it really costs to run your online porn business? A lot of webmasters do not and they are the ones that never seem to be able to break from the “occasional sale every few months” group into the “where are my sales today?” group.

It’s called SBP–Standard Business Perception. Any business has cost rules and the internet is no exception. Let’s say you own 1 site or blog on one domain. What are your yearly operating costs?

The domain itself. Depending on where you register the name at you are looking at 7.99 to 10.99 a year for the name. Let’s assume you go the cheap route.

Privacy registration. It usually costs anywhere from 5.00 to 15.00 a year to cloak your identity. Not everyone needs this but if you are one of those people who don’t want to risk someone looking up dirtynastysex.com and finding you as the owner it is necessary. Again–assume you go the least expensive.

Hosting. You have to have that domain somewhere. Plans can run from 6.99 a month to 29.99 a month depending on your needs. Again–we will assume your needs are met by the lower price. That’s 83.88 a year for hosting.

So your obvious costs, domain, privacy and hosting are going to run you 96.87 a year.

But you have to consider the incidental costs as well.

Your internet connection. Sure–you would likely have the internet anyway but you have to look at it as a cost since you are using it to conduct business. Average highspeed broadband connection is 49.95 a month. You have to assume that 1/2 of that is the responsibility of your business. That’s 24.98 a month ( 299.76 a year).

Your time. The arguement is always that you would be doing nothing if you were not doing this but that does not play. You are doing this to make money. If you were working a part time job to make money you would be making miminum wage. You have to value the time you spend doing this at the same rate. I don’t know about where you live but here the miminum wage is 7.00 an hour. Let’s assume you spend 5 hours working on your site a week. That’s 35.00 worth of your time that you have invested. That’s 1820.00 a year.

Incidental costs are therefore 2119.76 a year.

Finally non-fixed costs. Namely taxes. Tax rates vary from state to state and depend on total income but let’s assume the lowest bracket will be in play. That is 10%. Since the average “part-time” webmaster makes 2 sales a month and averages 15.00 per sale that is 360.00 a year in sales. Tax liability would be 36.00.

It actually costs you to run that one site on that one domain: 96.87, 2119.76, and 36.00. That is 2252.63 a year operating costs. That breaks down to 187.72 a month. The more important figure for budgeting and planning is the operating cost per day based on a yearly projection. That is 6.18.

That is the amount you need to generate per day to cover your costs. It averages out to one sale at 15.00 every two days (approx).

Of course everyone’s figures will be different. Some will be higher some lower. The average wage where you live can affect the number greatly. But the example above will be damn close for the US webmaster. If you live in the US and you are not making 200.00 in generated income a month you are losing money. Use the little form below to calculate your true cost of operation.

Spent yearly on domains:____________
Spent yearly on privacy:_____________
Spent yearly on hosting:_____________
1/2 your yearly internet cost:__________
Hours worked X average local wage:_________
Estimated taxes:____________________

Hey guys (and girls, shemales, crossdressers, and other transgenders). I’m Katie-Ann, transgender model and webmistress over at TheCrossdresser.com. I’ll be managing the Crossdressing Webmasters area here at UltraWebmasters, providing my tips and experiences running and promoting crossdresser porn sites.  Lots of the same advice will also apply to tranny webmasters, though there are some definite differences. You’ll also probably notice that TheCrossdresser.com is an amateur model paysite… so hopefully those of you who are running or promoting amateur sites, and really anybody running a paysite will also find at least some of these posts worth reading.

I realize crossdressing by itself may be a pretty small niche… but there are quite a few parallels with other niches, and you might also be surprised by how well crossdressing content sells when mixed in with other more mainstream porn. So stick around and see what you can learn from a crossdresser – you just might find yourself with a new niche to promote Oh, and of course be sure to bookmark UltraWebmasters or add the RSS feed to stay up to date on all the other niche-specific and general webmastering topics!

Hey, all,

I am Luke, owner of three gay webmaster affiliate programs  HunkMoney, BritishBucks and LatinoBucks, and I will be heading up the Gay Webmastering section of this site. I will be writing articles that will help webmasters who are marketing gay adult sites, plus will pop some general info up to help all webmasters. So bookmark this site, grab the RSS URL and keep connected with Gay Webmastering on UltraWebmasters.com!

The one and only Dokk is back after five years!
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I hate seeing sites go offlline because the domain was not paid for on time. It happens all the time, recently a major program went offline for a few days until the owner took care of it. When a domain expires for non-payment registrars give you a grace period to renew it, but then they park the domain, so you have to wait for the dns to change and get your site back live.

The trick is to have one email address that you can check for all your domains registrations, keep life simple.

I don’t believe in using a seperate email address for each domain, it leads to trouble, you might forget the check each email on a regular basis.

The other tip is to put your most valuable domains on auto renewal. That way the registrar will automatically charge your credit card on file with them, when the time comes to renew.

TheButcher from SponsorChat.com has taken over UltraWebmasters.com

Thank you to all those who have visited this fine resource over time, and hope to carry on seeing you here in the future.

For any questions, comments or advertising opportunities please use the “Contact” form in the upper right. For you PR fiends the site is PR4 and there are top and bottom banners available across the site.

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AEBN has released the new RSS Blog Tool, which gives webmasters an easy way to create a blog or update a site with the great content available on their theater.

The RSS Blog Tool allows porn webmasters to automatically populate their site with the hottest stars, studios, and action offered in their theaters. Easily embedded in any blog, the RSS Blog Tool is completely customizable and has editing capabilities, so webmasters can add SEO-friendly content and copy tailored to fit their unique needs. The tool works great with WordPress and other blogging software, and can be set up in minutes.

Each post promotes a film with its box cover image, movie description, and accompanying movie clip. As a bonus feature, the RSS can be imported at desired intervals, automatically updating customers with the latest information on their favorite stars, studios, and upcoming releases.

The RSS Blog Tool is available now in the Webmaster Section of AEBN.net. Contact your rep today if you have any questions about this exciting new addition to our premium collection of sales tools.

If you already have a white label with us, you can now continue your branding process to a higher level, reaching new markets using the new beta version of the Mobile White Label from webcams.com. The Mobile White Label is at this moment a beta version optimized for the iPhone and it uses the same theme as mobile webcams.com.

We’d also like to tell you some of the features Mobile White Label offers. First of all and also the most important, is that the mobile can be set-up on the same domain name where the current white label desktop can be found (e.g.: m.yourwhitelabel.com), or on any other domain name (e.g.: yourmobilewhitelabel.mobi). In order for both white labels to be able to exchange traffic between them automatically depending of the type of device the surfer is using a mobile phone or a PC.

There are two logo images you need to upload. There’s the Welcome and Mobile Not supported Logo and the Top page (header) logo. Both of them can be previewed instantly from your affiliate account. You easily generate them using any of this two free logo creators from creatr.cc or bloggertricks.com

In case you would like to add a Google Analytics tracking code, you can simply add the separate code for the mobile white label, if not, the white label will automatically use the one that the desktop version is using.

Only the free lifetime membership is available at the moment, which means that if your desktop white label is setup to sell $4.99 Trial Memberships, than any sale made through the mobile white label will be automatically converted into a free lifetime sale.

We’ve created video tutorials in order to help you create faster and easier a new white label, check them out on our YouTube channel

If you encounter any problems while creating or editing a white label theme, please contact us, we are ready to help at any time, you can reach us using the ticketing system or any of the contact details we have on the contact page inside the affiliate area.

This year’s XBIZ Awards had Webcams.com and the Webcams.com Affiliate Program nominated in the Live Cam Site of the Year and Live Cam Company of the Year categories.

We are happy and honored to learn that we are on the right track as far as developing our business goes and still in the top of the best adult entertainment providers world-wide.

Webcams.com has been constantly upgraded and bettered in 2010 and, thanks to some cool new features, such as a new skin and a completely new chat application, our website has drawn the attention of the XBIZ Staff.

As far as our Affiliate Program is concerned, we bet you already know by now that it is always kept in top-notch condition. We frequently bring you new promo tools and new features in order for you to continue being successful with us.

This way, our Desktop White Label has been seriously optimized throughout the year, we’ve recently added the Mobile White Label and the PopUnder and exit console come to complete our efforts in providing up-to-date solutions for you to expand your business.

Another major development for the Webcams.com Affiliate Program was the new counting system, which now works based on an algorithm similar to that of Google Analytics. Also during 2010, we switched to EMC2PAYOUTS which is the exclusive marketing partner of International Payout Services (IPS) replacing epassporte, which has so far proved to be a wise decision as far as both our Affiliates and Models are concerned.

These two recent nominations at the XBIZ Awards 2011 prove that webcams.com is presently one of the most important video chat communities out there and that the upgrades it has undergone during this last year have helped it become a powerful contender in the adult entertainment business.

On behalf of the whole webcams.com team, we would like to thank everybody that supported us and who treasure our collaboration!

Known to industry insiders, affiliates and fans as a forward thinking company with a knack for opening new creative niches, PIMPROLL is doing it again with the unique idea behind SpinOnMyCock.com The life-size sexual turntable used in each scene allows featured pornstars to be seen from every angle as they ride their way into the hearts of adoring fans and generate exceptional ratios for affiliates all along the way.

Already loaded with a handful of well-known names including Jesse Jordan, Tanner Mayes, Rebecca Blue and Emy Reyes, SpinOnMyCock.com has also created a buzz among performers eager to explore new sexual positions by giving the turntable site a spin of their own. Exclusive scenes, interesting reality porn scripts and stunningly hot XXX hardcore action have this new site poised to quickly become one of the most popular PIMPROLL offerings in recent memory.

As with all PIMPROLL paysites, SpinOnMyCock.com allows porn webmasters to set their own prices and join page options with a simple link code generation system, offers industry leading payouts via PayPerSignup or RevShare and is backed by award winning support staff able to help you with custom promo materials or any other ways that will assist affiliates in maxing out their revenue.

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We have decided to discontinue FamousMILF.com. After multiple tries of trying to optimize and re-design this website we have come to the conclusion that the site will never do as well as the other sites in our portfolio. By sending the exact same traffic to our other sites we’ve seen much better ratios and sales. The site will be taken offline next week, but it’s not necessary to remove or update your links. All link codes will automatically be forwarded to HomeMadeCelebrityPorn which is our best converting site and you will of course still keep receiving credit for any sales your traffic generates. We will maintain and continue to update the members area so webmasters who have sent traffic on a revenue share basis needn’t worry about their rebills.

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Nigeria’s first soft porn movies, Dirty secret, has been selling fiercely despite widespread condemnation.

The curiosity of movie lovers was finally laid to rest recently when Dirty Secret, the highly controversial soft porn movie was released into the market.

Starring Actresses Tonto Dikeh and Maryann Apollo, and Actors Jibola Dabo and Muna Obiekwe, Dirty secret, since its snippet was released on the internet, has been generating lots of outrage among fans and stakeholders who are of divided views.

Those who have seen the full work will further be surprised on how daring some Nigerian movie stars could be.

Dirty secrets, story line (if any) is not particularly clear to the viewers. The popular actors and actresses, along with other not-too-familiar faces exhibited series of abnormal sexual behaviours. The so-called soft porn movie was produced and marketed by Nigeria-based Divine Touch Pictures instead of Sanga Entertainment in the U.K as was earlier announced, and also shot in Nigerian as against the initial story that it was shot in New York. It demonstrated incest, homosexuality and other jaw-dropping sexual stunts.

However, it is interesting the manner in which the movie is currently being rushed in the market. Movie retailers are said to be raking in heavy profits from the sales. At every bus stop where movies are being sold, the poster of where Tonto Dike and Muna cudddled each other must be seen by passers-by. The movie is now so popular among movie hawkers that it is the one being displayed most conspicuously for the customers to see.

A particular movie retailer around Ketu Bus stop, in Lagos, Musa Ismail shared his opinion in pidgin English with LEADERSHIP ENTERTAINMENT.

“The reason why the movie sells is because people like to watch all these movies that have to do with sex. Some people will even come here and pretend as if they want to go home to watch the movie so that they can criticize it but deep down their hearts, they like it,” Musa Said.

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In a move that aims at tightening the Chinese government’s grip on Web porn business, the website of the Ministry of Public Security recently revealed that the country’s drive against porn will further intensify in 2010.

Noting that online pornography can be perilous medium for promoting ominous images and ideas, the Ministry’s website, www. mps. gov. cn, mentions that the law enforcement authorities intend intensifying penalty against Internet operations that flout porn-related regulations. Already, over 9,000 porn sites have been closed in China; 5,394 people have been arrested; and 4,186 prosecuted.

Calling the onslaught against online porn part of the country’s overall endeavors to safeguard “national long-term stability,” the Ministry said that the effort will not only help build a “harmonious socialist society,” but also prevent the “poisoning of young people’s physical and mental health.”

In the first stage of the three-branched strategy to fight online porn, China will clearout Internet pornography crimes, thereby targeting people working for international porn websites, mobile phone porn websites, and P2P networks.

The second prong of the strategy will deal with increasing the size of the Ministry’s Internet security section that manages porn-related cases so that more incidents can be investigated; and the third aspect of the strategy will better inter-department communication so as to “strengthen cooperation” and “create a good network management order.”

Article by Jimmy Peterson, topnews.com

Sometimes porn can get you behind bars. It happened to the operators of MoviesByMail.com that were sentenced to one entire year each in prison as they previously pleaded guilty for obscene material distribution. Other charges from the 2003 federal indictment were dropped for both Sami Harb and Michael Harb who agreed to forfeit assets and face three years probation after release.

The accusation revolved around the mailing of “Max Hardcore: Pure Max 18,” Max Hardcore: Extreme 12″ and Extreme Associates’ “Cocktails 5,” three movies that toured the entire state of Utah. Karin M. Fojtik, Assistant U.S. Attorney explained how the case represents a “community response to the increasing degradation depicted in adult pornography.”Also she added that” the adult pornography charged in this case went so far beyond any sense of community values, it warranted criminal prosecution.

“While the defense has made much of this matter being brought in Utah, these images represent conduct that is beyond human dignity in any community in this country”. In reply to these accusations, Diana Duke, the executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, tried to bring statistics to front in order to offer solid arguments for these particular happenings.

“When MoviesByMail operators were indicted [in 2003], Utah was ranked the No. 1 state in the U.S. for downloading adult content,” she explained. So there is obviously a high demand of adult content in Utah. “Yet, Assistant U.S. Attorney Karin M. Fojtik feels comfortable in speaking for all communities. No one is forced to watch adult content.

The only victims here are the producers or distributors whose lives have been torn apart by an overzealous and oppressive Bush Department of Justice” she added. Moreover, even though the Harbs didn’t even have anything to do with producing the movies, the judge accused them of lack of responsibility in making sure that obscene content was not distributed.

Now we may just wonder whether they have porn channels in their minimum-security facility in Cleveland.

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