Pornography

Downloading porn could bring lawsuit

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- In mid-July, Yolanda P. opened her mailbox in Visalia, Calif., to find a letter that has been landing in tens of thousands of mailboxes across the country -- she was being sued by an adult film company for illegally downloading porn on her computer.

These allegations of porn piracy are now part of a torrent of legal battles unfolding coast-to-coast in an explosion of copyright lawsuits filed over the past year. From Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C., adult filmmakers are unleashing their lawyers in federal courts to sue John and Jane Does for stealing porn and sharing it on an increasingly porn-happy Internet.

(Standard-Examiner file photo) Stephen Coleman enters 2nd District Court in Farmington on three counts of sodomy of a child and six counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child in March. On Tuesday, he was sentenced to serve two consecutive sentences of 15 years to life on two first-degree felony counts: attempted sodomy on a child and aggravated sexual abuse of a child.

'Broken man' sentenced for sex abuse

FARMINGTON -- Stephen J. Coleman robbed two young girls of their innocence, says the mother of the victims.

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McCullar trial testimony: Blood smears found on TV remote as porn played

OGDEN -- The killer left quite the crime scene behind, according to testimony, including a pornographic video playing at the feet of the deceased.

Crime scene analysts Tuesday detailed Filiberto Robles Bedolla's apartment the day his body was found Dec. 22, 2009. The testimony came on the second day of trial scheduled to run through the month for the man accused in his death.

Romney rejects gay marriage pledge

DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign said Tuesday that he will not sign a conservative Iowa Christian group’s far-reaching pledge opposing gay marriage, making him the first Republican presidential candidate to reject it.

Porn actress says Weiner asked her to lie about his online activities

NEW YORK -- As Rep. Anthony Weiner remained in hiding and on leave from his job, a self-described dancer and former porn actress who was part of his sexting scandal emerged from seclusion Wednesday and said the congressman had pressed her to lie about his online antics.

Ginger Lee read a statement describing an electronically driven relationship that lasted from March until two weeks ago, when Weiner, D-N.Y., admitted sending sexually charged messages and graphic photographs to various women. "I did not sext Anthony Weiner," said Lee, standing beside celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred.

Davis County libraries set policy for Internet safety

LAYTON — Internet speeds at Davis County libraries will soon be six times faster that the current speed.

Ex-porn star in prostitution ring avoids prison

DETROIT -- After telling the judge she was a changed woman, a former porn star and call girl was spared a prison sentence Friday for her role in a massive prostitution agency that was busted in Detroit last summer.

Nayubet Swaso, also known as Sierra Sanchez in the escort industry, was placed on two-years of supervised release for helping to run Miami Companions, a high-priced escort service that dispatched prostitutes nationwide -- Detroit being among its busiest ports.

AP IMPACT: Porn company is amassing 1-800 numbers

NEW YORK — For years, teenagers across the U.S. could call a toll-free hotline if they had embarrassing questions about AIDS and safe sex. Dial the same number now and you get a recording of giggling women offering to talk dirty to you.

Porn actors' medical records leaked to website

LOS ANGELES -- Officials at a Los Angeles health clinic that caters to the porn industry say they are investigating allegations that patient information was leaked to a website.

Pornwikileaks.com posted the names, birth dates and stage names of more than 12,000 current and former porn performers earlier this year. Some say that information could only have come from the clinic where many performers are tested for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases: the former Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation clinic, now known as AIM Medical Associates P.C.

Former porn actress to auction off Charlie Sheen memorabilia

LOS ANGELES -- Everyone has by now heard about the manic, tough-talking Charlie Sheen, the sitcom actor who publicly insults his bosses and makes T-shirt-ready boasts of "winning" and having tiger blood. But former porn star Ginger Lynn says she got intimate with another side of TV's top-earning actor -- one that fans can now share for a price.

"There's a side of him that I don't think many people hear about," Lynn said during an interview Friday. "Especially because right now, everyone's focusing on the negative. I have the soft, the considerate, the sensitive, the warm, the scared, the encouraging sides -- I have all these sides of Charlie that no one's talking about."

Now those in Sheen's corner -- that is to say, anyone not among the critics whom the actor dubs "trolls" -- can have them too, as Lynn is prepared to use her adult-film collectibles website (GingerLynnAuctions.com) to sell off a trove of gifts, mementos and letters Sheen sent her during their two-year-plus romance in the early 1990s.

Porn video is filmed on public island in broad daylight

MIAMI -- When Miami-Dade County voters agreed to spend $1 million to restore the Flagler Memorial on Monument Island, many hoped the beautification of one of the county's most revered historic structures would attract new visitors.

But probably not porn stars.

The lushly landscaped island between the Venetian and MacArthur causeways, which boasts a 110-foot obelisk honoring Florida pioneer Henry Flagler, is now the backdrop for an online porn video produced by RealityKings.com.

The film shows a redhead credited only as "Brooklyn" showing off what could loosely be described as her acting chops with fellow thespian "JMac."

Miami Beach officials -- and at least one local historian -- are not amused.

New ministry addresses sex, porn addictions

OGDEN -- Wayne Feller says he knows too well what it's like to feel too isolated and ashamed to be able to get over an addiction.

Man waives his preliminary hearing

FARMINGTON — A local comedian charged with 25 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor for taking photographs of underage girls has waived his right to a preliminary hearing.

Mortuary tries to keep virus from posting porn links

OGDEN -- A virus in a web server posted links to pornography onto a funeral home's website Monday, but officials at the Leavitt's Aultorest Funeral Home said they were blocking the posts and changing web hosts at the end of the year.

(The Associated Press) Elizabeth Smart is escorted 
into Frank Moss Federal Courthouse in Salt Lake City to testify in the Brian David Mitchell trial on Wednesday.

Elizabeth Smart wraps up her Utah trial testimony

SALT LAKE CITY -- Elizabeth Smart testified Wednesday that the street preacher accused of kidnapping her in 2002 frequently prayed that the teenager would fulfill her marital duty of having sex -- something she said was "about the farthest thing" from her prayers.

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