Porn Giant Suing Over New .XXX Adult Domains

[Guest]

The whole dotxxx business model is based on fear.

The company running the scam (ICM registry) tells mainstream companies they must pay a $300 block fee or else the dotxxx version of their trademark will be used to direct surfers to pornographic content. That's what I call extortion.

 

[captaincharisma]

ahh poor company. they can't trick people anymore with a normal domain name

 

[NuclearShadow]

They are seriously complaining about $60 per domain? The porn industry makes billions of dollars yearly. If they are indeed a giant than they are making profits way beyond the $60 per domain even worth a thought.

Something else is going on here. There is no way they are making this big of a fuss over such a small fee. Whatever the real issue is they are obviously hiding and using this lawsuit to try to get what they want without exposing what it really is.

 

[neoverdugo]

[citation][nom]aznguy0028[/nom]lol rule 34. "hi ma'am, so it's okay if i stick my video card into your pci-e slot?" nothing is safe! xD[/citation]

You should said "Nothing is sacred anymore"
Is it me, or the suing game it started to get very annoyingly noisy?

 

[koga73]

domains are easy to filter

 

[smelly_feet]

They wouldn't call it Tom's Porn. It would be Tom's Pornware.

 

[chumly]

People pay for porn?

 

[11796pcs]

Well it is Tom's HARD News after all- at least that's what it says on some of my e-mails.

 

[pjmelect]

I would like to see a tomshardware.xxx The picture of the Firefox girl would be more interesting.

 

[sixdegree]

[citation][nom]smelly_feet[/nom]Tom's Pornware.[/citation]
Yes, i really look forward to read article about how to smear thermal paste all over my cpu, then pressing down a big thermal tower on it. Good times.

 

[pjmelect]

Yes having a Porn Tomshardware site is a good idea, I think that I might register it myself and put up lots of computer related porn. This might force Tomshardware to register the XXX domain first before I do. I imagine lots of companies are registering their domain with the XXX extension to stop people from doing this and making ICANN and ICM lots of money.

 

[descendency]

tomshardware.xxx

Not for computer parts.

 

[bin1127]

Perhaps "$60 a pop" is not the best choice of words for this article.

But $60 to register a domain isn't that much. A couple of webcam sessions will pay for that.

 

[Zingam]

Oh come one... in my country our local provider charges us more than that! In fact a few years ago they demanded over $200 for a domain name while at the same time .com would cost about $15.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]bin1127[/nom]Perhaps "$60 a pop" is not the best choice of words for this article[/citation]
Or maybe it is the best choice, depends on your point of view (or POV, if you know what I mean)

 

[fulle]

*NOT SARCASM*
This is actually really relevant tech news guys... and Manwin's arguments seem reasonable, in my honest opinion.

 

[AerieC]

[citation][nom]krinkles619[/nom]this is definitely relevant tech news[/citation]

Off Topic:
I'm getting sick of people complaining about how article x/y/z is "not relevant" to technology, and thus should not appear on this site.

1. If it is in any way related, no matter how tangentially, to the internet, video/computer games, computer hardware, smart phones, or any other area of 21st century technology, it is relevant.

2. This is Tom's Guide, not Tom's Hardware. Yes, I realize that links to Tom's Guide appear in the news feed on Tom's Hardware, but they are not the same site. Articles that may not be relevant specifically to the Tom's Hardware site will appear here. If you don't like that, then don't click on the links.

3. You, personally, do not get to decide what is relevant for the rest of the internet. Let us decide that ourselves. Nobody here cares what you think about the relevancy of this or any other article.

4. If you've taken into account points 1-3 and still have an issue with the article choices, I'm here to let you know that this is not the forum in which to raise the issue.

Here is a link to the site feedback forum: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/forum-9.html

If that's not good enough for you, then send an email to the BestofMedia group at: usa@bestofmedia.com.

/rant

 

[eddieroolz]

Porn industry already makes a lot of money; just spend the damn $60 and buy a domain.

 

[assasin32]

[citation][nom]sixdegree[/nom]Yes, i really look forward to read article about how to smear thermal paste all over my cpu, then pressing down a big thermal tower on it. Good times.[/citation]

Just wait till they start doing side air ducts. (If you can come up with something sexual about that you need help)

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]ojas[/nom]from what i know, adult actors/actresses are paid in the thousands, so i don't know whether a few hundred dollars are worth all this fuss...[/citation]

male actors are payed 300$ a day, and actresses are payed 600$ a day, we aren't getting into all of the fetish, and weird crap they pay out more for and per session, but the standard rate.

if you are a name actress, such as people buy the porn just because she/he is in it, than you make significantly more.

but you have to take into account that one porn shoot can have 30-50 people in the background off camera, a 3 day shoot may cost you 20-30k to shoot, and at 20-30$ a dvd (depends on expected sales, how old it is, and such) you need to sell allot to recupe costs, and at the end of the day, a slight proffit from all the work can get more work.

now im not talking about the big places that can take a total flop and go on like its nothing, im talking about the smaller operations.

this is a few days to late, but i still thought i should post it.