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VAN NUYS, Calif. — Digital Playground contract star Riley Steele will appear on the “Howard Stern Show” tomorrow.

The show will air on Sirius XM channel 100 beginning at 6 a.m. EST with repeated shows all day.

The interview will also air on Howard TV on the On-Demand channel and on all Howard TV cable channels beginning Friday at midnight, EST for one month.

“I am bursting at the seams to meet and appear on Howard,” Steele said. “I have been a huge fan of his since I can remember! Being a guest on the show is truly a dream come true. Tune in, you won’t want to miss it!”

The crossover starlet will be appearing in both adult and mainstream films this year, such as “Pirana 3D” which hits theaters on Aug. 27, Digital Playground said. Her most recent Digital Playground feature, “Fly Girls,” was released on Feb. 16.
Source: Xbiz

PHILADELPHIA — HotMovies.com took home the 2010 XBIZ Award for VOD Company of the Year.

“We’re really honored to be recognized by XBIZ again this year,” says director of business development James Cybert, who was on hand with the legendary Ron Jeremy to accept the award. “XXX fans will be glad to know we’re not letting up as we quickly approach 150,000 movies on the site.”

HotMovies has more than 130,000 movies from more than 2,300 studios. The website allows users to watch what they want, when they want it, without memberships or monthly fees.
Source: xbiz

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Last month, RedTube’s parent company Bright Imperial Ltd. won a little-noticed WIPO decision — it was able to convince an arbitrator to order a transfer the domain HQRedTube.com from an Estonia man.

With the binding decision, RedTube is likely to exploit the site to its full potential, offering high-quality tube feeds or fueling traffic to its cornerstone website.

Senja Dumpin, a student who lives in Tallinn, Estonia, told arbitrator Desmond J. Ryan through an interpreter that he didn’t make any money on the site and that RedTube “didn’t lose any money not having the domain.”

Further, Dumpin said that it HQRedTube.com never had content but only pointed to another site. “Now it is not pointing anywhere,” he told the arbitrator. “There was no case of any infringement.”

RedTube said that when it first corresponded with Dumpin in May, he said that he’d take down the site and include software in the deal for $10,000.

RedTube replied that it was not interested in the software but sought transfer of the domain name in return for “reasonable out-of pocket expenses.”

After Dumpin said he’d transfer the domain name for $2,100, Red Tube cut off all communication and filed a case with WIPO, a Geneva Internet policymaking and arbitrating board.

“[RedTube] shows that the current price charged by registrar GoDaddy.com for registration of a name in the .com domain is $10.69,” said.

RedTube contended at WIPO that its brand is well known in Dumpin’s country. It even pointed to articles about its website in prominent international publications, including the Financial Times and Esquire.

RedTube also provided audit statistics from rating agency Alexa.com, showing that in Estonia as of September that its site was the most popular adult website and the 64th most-popular site overall.

It also included as evidence that Dumpin’s HQRedTube.com included “advertisements for adult videos in competition with complainant and which, complainant alleges, copies the look and feel of complainant’s website.”

Dumpin, through the interpreter, said that he “does not understand is it really ‘against the law’ to buy some domain name. As a student he knows that anybody is allowed to buy any domain name.”

With the case, Ryan, the arbitrator, ruled that RedTube satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, as well as other tenets.
Source: xbiz

LOS ANGELES — RedTube’s lawsuit against WEG has been settled, XBIZ has learned.

U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Nguyen signed off this morning on an order discharging claims and vacating further motions in the case that pitted two large adult brands over allegations of leaked confidential documents, poached business secrets and cybersquatting.

WEG’s counsel, Allan Gelbard, told XBIZ that he couldn’t comment on the case because terms of the settlement’s agreement, which was signed by both parties Friday, are confidential.

“All of the parties were pleased with the outcome,” Gelbard said.

Operators of RedTube.com in November filed a lawsuit against WEG, formally known as Web Entertainment Group Inc., claiming the company scooped up a number of RedTube domain names with the intention to divert and acquire its traffic and profits.

RedTube said that Boca Raton, Fla.-based WEG purchased RedTube.org, RedTube.pl, RedTube.fr, RedTube.com.br, RedTube.br and RedTube.ca between 2007 and this year in an attempt to ride on RedTube.com’s coattails of “success, fame and goodwill” by using “confusingly similar names and domains.”

But the suit filed at U.S. District Court in Los Angeles went beyond cybersquatting. RedTube.com also claimed that a former company officer leaked a confidential memo that provided RedTube.com trade secrets when WEG apparently contemplated purchasing the tube site.

The leaked memo, RedTube.com operators claim, included business secrets, including marketing plans, revenue, profit margin and other financial data. The suit claimed that John Skorik, the former WEG company executive, provided the memo to Paolo Cammarata and Kevin Cammarata, the owner of Teen Revenue who filed a suit earlier this year at Los Angeles Superior Court.

Kevin Cammarata claims in that suit that RedTube unlawfully offers free movies as loss leaders in an attempt to crush the competition. Kevin Cammarata is seeking to have RedTube.com shut down by the court.

The Cammaratas’ attorney, Jay Spillane, told XBIZ last week that TeenRevenue’s $40 million suit against RedTube is still moving along, “but at a snails pace.”

“The suit is now caught up in the appeals process, and it may take up to a year to get resolved,” Spillane said.

In RedTube’s suit against WEG that was dismissed today, the company said that WEG executed a confidentiality agreement to suitors when it contemplated selling the company in early 2008.

“The confidential memorandum was watermarked so that any copy of the memorandum bore the words ‘Web Entertainment Group Inc.’ in large type running diagonally from the bottom left-hand corner to the top right-hand corner of each page,” the suit said.

The suit claimed that WEG had no intention on buying RedTube.com and that the watermarked confidential memo ended up attached to a declaration that was introduced by Paolo Cammarata in the Los Angeles Superior Court action.

RedTube.com said in the suit that if it were not for the introduction of that memo, the Cammarata lawsuit “never would have been filed.”

RedTube.com, whose parent company is Hong Kong-based Bright Imperial Ltd., said in the WEG suit that it already has spent “hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees and costs” in defending the Cammarata litigation it refers to as the “Cammarata Costs.”

RedTube.com operators were asking the court to award unspecified damages and an injunction using the “RedTube” trade name on its sites.

It asked the court to find the Cammarata litigation costs were a direct result of WEG’s misappropriation of RedTube.com trade secrets and awarding those costs as damages.
Source: xbiz

LOS ANGELES — “Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria Parker has given her Twitter followers more than they bargained for.

According to GossipCop, Parker intended to point her fans to husband basketball player Tony Parker’s page, but instead directed them to a porn site.

She apparently forgot to include the number nine in the address and urged people to sign up for updates from tpnetwork, which belongs to Titanium Porn Network.

On realizing her mistake, she tweeted, “Oh, nooo! I put the wrong twitter site for my husband. It’s @tp9network. The one I put earlier goes to some porn site!!! Don’t use it!”
Source: xbiz

2010 AVN AWARDS SHOW Red Carpet at The Palms Casino in Las Vegas, NV USA January 9, 2010. Ray Vanesse, Ron Jeremy and Velvet Skye, Ace, Baby Bash and Da Stooie Brothers, Charlie Chase, Christian Rose, Carmen McCarty, Emily Rigby, Angelina Valentine, Diana Lauren, September Dawn, Heidi Mayne, Erica Ellyson, DJ Shy, Ed Powers, Eva Angelina, Evan Stone, Syren, Flower Tucci, Olivia O’Lovely, Iman Rose, Francesca Le, India Summer, Rayveness, Jenna Haze, Jules Jordan, Jessica Drake, Dallas, Joanna Angel, James Dean, Joey Ray, Kayla Carrera, JMAC, Julia Ann, Kelli McCarty, Steve Hirsch, Shauna Sand, Kiara Diane, Kimber James, Lance Gilman, Susan Austin, Lee Roy, Ashlyn Brooke, Lisa Ann, Lucy Fox, Rob Rotten, Hilary Scott, Madelyn Marie, Maya Devine, Monica Mayhem, Aryana Starr, Ian Cinnamon, Dave Navarro, Shayla Stylez, Shay Lynn, Jaded Dawn, Sunny Leone, Tanner Mayes, Tara White, Victoria White, Dan O’Connel, Wendy Williams, Will Ryder, Suzanne Kelly, Yuri Zan, Alektra Blue, Georgia Jones, Alexis Texas, Mr. Pete, Angelina Armani, Aurora Snow, Axel Braun, Bree Olson, Shy Love, Danielle Robinson, Dylan Ryder, Tommy Gunn, Gina Lynn, Travis Knight, Jenny Hendrix, Kagney Lynn Karter, Kalani Lei, Katsumi, Kelli Devine, John Stagliano, Lupe Fuentes, Evan Seinfeld, Madison Young, Margaret Cho, Melanie Monroe, Sean Michaels, McKenzie Lee, Rayleen, Kapri Styles, Riley Steele, Rocco Siffredi, Shawna Lenee, Lexi Bell, Sunny Lane, Sunset Thomas, Tori Black, Tee Reel, Veronica Rayne and others.

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“SINNER TAKES ALL,” the autobiography of Tera Patrick, begins harrowingly, with the popular porn actress recounting what she can remember, which isn’t much, of a psychotic break she suffered in 2004. Dogged by pressures stemming from a costly lawsuit with the production company Digital Playground, Patrick went on a rampage, destroying her fiance’s Brooklyn loft in a violent fit and prompting him to subdue her with duct tape and drive her to the emergency room.

She was committed to the mental ward for two weeks, and her account of the experience makes for an auspicious beginning for a book about one of the most successful porn actresses of the 2000s. Patrick has built an empire that includes a production company, a lingerie line, an upcoming burlesque show, a Web site offering her own and others’ movies, and now an autobiography written with Carrie Borzillo (author of books on Nirvana and Green Day).

The main thrust (sorry) of “Sinner Takes All” is that Patrick has found the fulfillment and empowerment through porn that she was not afforded in other professional avenues. After a decade in the industry, she is one of the few porn actresses to find any sort of celebrity outside the backrooms of video stores and firewall-blocked Web sites. In fact, along with a few of Tiger Woods’ alleged mistresses and recognizable names like Jenna Jamison and Sasha Grey — not to mention anyone who has had a sex tape — Patrick helped usher porn into the mainstream during the 2000s.

Just as Patrick decries all the “porn chicks” with daddy issues, she herself has her own baggage, which is only nominally addressed in the pages of “Sinner Takes All.” Born to an American father and a Thai mother, Patrick was an awkward girl, athletic but ostracized for her gangly frame and developing figure. Her father moved constantly and her mother was abusive, which she claims sent her on a reckless path: As she writes about her decision to do porn, “I wouldn’t know until years later, after some therapy, that what I was doing was filling the void left by parents who weren’t there for me.”

“Sinner Takes All” is candid, even if Patrick does not dig especially deep into her motivations. At 14 she began modeling and lived in Tokyo for two wild years, where she became addicted to Valium and alcohol and spent her paychecks on shopping sprees. She was, she admits, a “not-so-beautiful mess.” Returning to America, she settled down a bit, studied for her nursing degree, and worked for a few years toiling at a retirement community. A “normal” life at last seemed a possibility, but she hastily quit after a patient attacked her with a loaded bedpan. It may have been humiliating, but it’s one of the most humanizing passages in “Sinner Takes All.”

tera patrickPatrick fell back on her modeling career, posing nude for a number of magazines and eventually starring in adult films. She is, she says, a “gonzo performer” — in it for the sex and not out of some aspiration toward mainstream acting. “Ladies,” she counsels, “porn is not, I repeat not, the gateway to Hollywood!”

Naive if not exactly innocent, she signed a shady contract with Digital Playground, effectively giving the company more of her earnings than she herself took home. But via a string of popular films as well as a job hosting “Night Calls 411 Live” on Playboy TV, Patrick rose through the ranks of porn actresses to become one of the most popular and profitable stars in the industry, despite being a functioning alcoholic with an undiagnosed bipolar disorder.

In the early 2000s, she met Evan Seinfeld, the vocalist-bassist for metal act Biohazard, who eventually became her manager, co-star and husband. Described by Patrick as the ultimate tattooed biker bad boy, he seems to have had a positive effect on her, getting her help when she needed and providing much-needed professional advice on her career and her image. He comes across as a saintly rogue in “Sinner Takes All,” but that image abruptly crumbles in the last chapter, when Patrick admits that she filed for divorce in September 2009.

That is the underlying tragedy that is conveyed — not explicitly, but implicitly — in this depressing book: Patrick comes across as an emotionally wounded and not unsympathetic women with a strong will but crippling insecurities. She looks to everyone around her for guidance, whether it’s a father, a husband or even a photographer, but each one seems to fail her in some crucial way. Ultimately, despite her success in the industry, porn is just a backdrop to this story of a woman trying to find some sense of balance and security.
Source: expressnightout.com

NEW YORK — Friendfinder Networks’ Penthouse magazine has been served with a lawsuit from a Florida prison inmate who says the company won’t sell him a back issue.

Jorge Niebla, who is serving 13 life sentences for kidnapping and armed robbery, claims he never heard back after he wrote the company in August 2008 and asked for the price and ordering instructions for its April 2007 issue.

That issue features a nude pictorial of burlesque star Dita Von Teese.

“[I] would like to purchase the magazine … but staff are being prejudice and don’t have respect for my basic rights,” Niebla wrote in the filing at U.S. District Court in New York.

U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska last week ordered Niebla to fill out a form to get a waiver of the $350 filing fee.

His two-page handwritten suit seeks an order compelling Boca Ratan, Fla.-based Penthouse Media Group to sell him the issue.
Source: biz

MONTREAL — Gamma Entertainment has inked a multiyear partnership with European retailer and distributor Beate Uhse to manage the website of its production arm, Daring! Media Group.

The management of DaringSex.com will be through Gamma’s FameDollars program.

“We are very excited about this new partnership,” FameDollars’ Director of Product Development Magalie Rheault said. “The DaringSex.com website will be the first of many projects to come with Beate Uhse in the next year. Seeing Beate Uhse’s operations in Europe and spending time with their key personnel first hand, we feel confident this alliance will be beneficial for both parties — 2010 will definitely be a busy year for FameDollars.com and Gamma Entertainment overall and it is with great confidence and excitement that we start this new year.”

Beate Uhse was founded in 1946, opened the world’s first sex shop in 1962, and currently is active in 60 countries with more than 1,500 employees and has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 1999. In March, the company purchased Playhouse, Europe’s leading adult distributor.

DaringSex.com is expected to launch in the first quarter of this year.

“When we look for new partners, we ensure they add value to the partners we have existing relationships with,” Claude Hyppolite, partner and owner of Gamma Entertainment, said. “Beate Uhse is a key partner with FameDollars. We look forward to building and strengthening a strategic alliance through their experience and overseas exposure in a market we are keen to develop.

“We’ve worked hard in the past years, and even harder recently because of the current recession, to build a bigger team and develop new platforms that will make us even stronger. It is with pride that we make this announcement and we are enthusiastic to grow together.”
Source: Xbiz

LOS ANGELES — Nectar Entertainment shoots for a hole-in-one with a porn spoof of the ripped-from-the-tabloids saga of philandering world-famous golfer Tiger Woods.

“Tiger’s Got Wood” was written and directed by Cash Markman and stars Diana Doll as Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren. Newcomer Jonny Slim plays “Tiger Would.”

Shot over two days in December, the movie filmed in Agoura Hills, Calif., and at Remmett Studios in Van Nuys, Calif.

“We cast only women that were dead ringers for the mistresses of Tiger that they would be playing,” Nectar’s Jason Heart told XBIZ. “There are to be two sequels to this picture.”

“Tiger’s Got Wood” was shot in high-definition. The movie will be the first from Nectar under its new distribution deal with Pulse Distribution.

Nectar recently was purchased by ZBVentures.
Source: Xbiz