New Delhi: Amid growing concerns over proliferation of pornographic sites on the internet, the Supreme Court today issued a notice to the Centre seeking its response to the issue.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir issued notice to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and others on the contention that child pornography is being exhibited on the internet and lot of children watch them.
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02:34 PM, Apr 15, 2013
In a new crackdown on online pornography, China has shut down 225 websites and other content sharing and social media sites, the government said. ...
10:52 AM, Feb 28, 2013
Once you fire up the QR code scanner in your smartphone, this hotel room reveals its erotic side. ...
12:56 PM, Feb 07, 2013
A suspended Pittsburgh-area priest will serve more than eight years in prison for collecting thousands of images of child pornography on his computer, books and compact discs. The sentence the Rev Bartley Sorensen received on Wednesday was more than the five-year mandatory minimum he sought but less than the 10-year maximum he faced. ...
09:20 AM, Jan 03, 2013
Micro-blogging website Twitter has closed down several accounts after it received complaints that they contained indecent images of children, Sky News reported. ...
11:39 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Seoul: Moon Tae-Hwa stares at his computer, dizzy and nauseous from the hours of porn he's viewed online while his wife and children slept. He feels no shame - only a righteous sense of mission. "I feel like I'm cleaning up dirty things," the devout Christian and family counsellor said. Moon is among the most successful members of the "Nuri Cops" (roughly "net cops"), a squad of nearly 800 volunteers...
03:57 PM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: In what is said to be the largest ever penalty awarded in a BitTorrent piracy case, a US judge ordered a man to pay $1,500,000 in damages to an adult entertainment company for sharing 10 of their movies via BitTorrent, reports TorrentFreak. Defendant Kywan Fisher was asked by the US District Court Northern District of Illinois to pay Flava Works, known for producing gay erotic media, $150,000 per...
05:45 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Beijing: As part of its anti-pornography drive, Chinese authorities have shut down about 97,000 blog and microblog accounts for spreading pornography and lewd content. According to State Internet Information Office, authorities closed the accounts over the past seven months, Xinhua reported. To curb lewd content from spreading via the Internet and cellphones, authorities banned 164 pornographic publications, the office said. A total of 287 Internet companies were probed and punished...
11:29 AM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: If anyone told me four years ago I'd be writing about Sherlyn Chopra, I'd have asked "Sherlyn Chopra, who?" The odd child of a booming Indian social media scene, Chopra arrived blazing across the horizon, riding a popularity wave in the wake of a tremendous publicity coup she pulled over contemporaries, many of whom with little or no access to the magical world of influential Hindi film stars....
10:57 AM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: Sherlyn Chopra is hopping mad at the Indian media for calling her 'sleaze queen', 'down market' and 'cheap' after she posted on Twitter pornographic images of a woman, thought to be her, masterbating with a cucumber. "Huge thanks to the media and others for titles such as 'wanna be', 'the queen of sleaze', 'down market', 'cheap', 'desperado', 'shameless', etc. Out of my 16 or 17 tweets which I...
10:41 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Boston: The men came from different walks of life on two continents: a children's puppeteer in Florida, a hotel manager in Massachusetts, an emergency medical technician in Kansas, a day care worker in the Netherlands. In all, 43 men have been arrested over the past two years in a horrific, far-flung child porn network that unraveled like a sweater with a single loose thread. In this case, the thread was...
09:14 AM, Aug 05, 2012
Louisville: It's a common tactic for pornography producers trying to protect their product from online piracy: They sue unknown "John Does" who illegally download movies, then go to Internet providers to learn their true identities and collect. Hundreds of porn companies have filed thousands of lawsuits across US in recent years. Often, representatives will call up the defendants, offering quick settlements of $1,000 or $5,000 to avoid facing $150,000 claims...
01:40 PM, Jul 12, 2012
London: A pornography studio wants to make adult films using Google Glasses that can film your life from the point of view of your eyes. Pink Visual spokesman Quentin Boyer told PCmag.com that the style of porn known as "point of view" has been a popular type of content for quite a while now. "Obviously, a device that allows you to shoot high quality video in a truly hands-free fashion...
09:55 AM, Jul 01, 2012
Rome: A US marine sergeant has been arrested by Italian police after he allegedly made a video of his repeated rape of a seven-year-old girl and posted it online. The 28-year-old soldier from Florida was arrested on Tuesday by the Italian Carabinieri military police and is being held at a prison in Pisa. The US has the right to request his extradition. The US marines took part in the investigation....
12:51 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Today, you are able to access numerous webpages through a web browser over the Internet. We use Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google and many other websites often to get information, stay in touch with people and remain updated. Most of us now heavily rely on the Internet, and the power of Internet is now not hidden from anybody. But do you know the source of this power? Do you...
04:35 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Cairo: An Egyptian court has ordered the government to ban pornographic Internet websites in order to protect society and its values. The decision and a similar initiative in parliament has fed into fears by liberal and secular Egyptians that their country is moving down the path to fundamentalist Islam, following a sweeping victory by Islamists in parliamentary elections. The ruling Wednesday came from a lower court and can be appealed....
01:29 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Beijing: Chinese officials have confiscated more than six million illegal publications during the first two months of this year. In all about 1,442 cases were involved, China's national pornographic and illegal publication office said. The crackdown on pornography and illegal publications has expanded the scope from printed publications to online releases in recent years, it said in a statement. The office has intensified investigation and punishment to some government authorities...
09:45 AM, Mar 25, 2012
Geneva: Within three months of the launch of the Internet "pornography" domain ".xxx," 10 cases have been launched against Web pirates registering sites on it using the names of reputable companies and people, insiders said on Monday. Sources at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) reported that among complainants to its dispute resolution system over .xxx - usually called dot-triple x - were banks, a jewelry business and an online...
11:08 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Washington: Pakistan has secured a dubious distinction of being the number one globally for searching the term 'sex' on Google in 2011. Pakistan is followed by India. Interestingly, of the top ten cities in the world searching for "sex" as per Google Trends data, eight are Indian. According to a 2010 Fox News report, Pakistan, which has over 20 million Internet users, had outranked all countries in Google searches for...
03:22 PM, Dec 30, 2011
Beijing: China has shut down 206 microblogs for distributing pornographic and vulgar content. The investigations were carried out following tips from people, said the State Internet Information Office (SIIO). All of the accounts were registered at four of China's largest microblogging sites - Sina.com.cn, Sohu.com, 163.com and QQ.com - with 130 accounts set up through Sina, reported Xinhua. The SIIO has urged the country's microblog providers and Internet portals to...
11:18 AM, Dec 10, 2011
