Industry Archives - Mike South

Aylo Triumphs in Copyright Suit Against PornXP

PornReporter — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:03:24 +0000

Court Orders Porkbun and Other Registrars to Hand Over PornXP Domains to Aylo Pornhub parent company Aylo has won its copyright infringement lawsuit against PornXP, securing a $10.2 million damages award against its Kyrgyzstani operator. The court also ordered domain registries to disable and transfer the PornXP domains to Aylo. However, since domain registrars are […]

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If You Can’t Match It, Kill It: Adult Time Ends Wicked Brand

Sidney Falco — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:25:09 +0000

Adult Time is the Gordon Gekko of porn Adult Time under Bree Mills has done everything it can to destroy the legendary Wicked Pictures brand since the departure from Gamma of Axel Braun, its last contracted filmmaker who actually understood how to make fappable movies that audiences would pay to see. But now, as if in […]

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Pornhub Institutes Criminal Background Checks for Content Partners UPDATED

Sidney Falco — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 22:55:14 +0000

Pornhub Institutes Criminal Background Checks for All Content Partners From the new Pornhub newsletter: At Pornhub, community safety is our top priority. To further protect our creators and users, all new applicants must now complete a criminal background check during onboarding. Existing content partners (like you) will need to do this in 2026. This […]

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There is no porn industry

Hamilton Steele — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 14:58:56 +0000

There is no porn industry today, so stop pretending. There is no porn industry anymore. Not in the way those of us, who actually shot on location, edited by hand, bribed officials, rewired theaters, and smuggled videos into firewalled nations, would recognize. What we’ve got now is a digital meat grinder run by people who […]

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Erika Icon Doesn’t Understand That Florida is on the East Coast

Sidney Falco — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:37:38 +0000

What can we say about semi-literate bully Erika Icon of The Rub PR that we haven’t already said? Members of the adult industry know her as someone who routinely, some might say pathologically, insults and demeans her own clients, as well as adult performers generally. (Some speculate that her company name references the fact that […]

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Joseph Salama, Beleaguered & Incompetent ‘Capt. Save-A-Ho’ California Attorney, Dies Suddenly

Sidney Falco — Thu, 08 May 2025 23:05:25 +0000

The Don Juan DeMarko of lawyers has passed away Joseph Salama, a troubled Marin County attorney of Egyptian descent who represented several adult film stars in the most incompetent fashion, has died “suddenly” according to family and ex-clients. Salama was routinely unable to meet filing deadlines, or even show up when required. As this sample […]

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SceneLocker Cloud Storage System for Creators Extends Closed Beta

Sidney Falco — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:58:13 +0000

Participating Beta Testers will receive 1TB of free storage and discounted future pricing from SceneLocker SceneLocker, the secure cloud storage and file transfer system tailored to the needs of content creators, has extended its closed Beta test at its website, SceneLocker.com. SceneLocker is a data storage and transfer company focused on catering to content creators […]

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Playboy Adds Byborg’s Gyorgy Gattyan to Board of Directors

Sidney Falco — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:14:56 +0000

PLBY Group, Inc., a leading pleasure and leisure lifestyle company and owner of Playboy, one of the most recognizable and iconic brands in the world, today announced the appointment of Gyorgy Gattyan to its Board of Directors. In connection with the appointment of Mr. Gattyan, the Board was expanded from five to seven directors, but […]

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Don Juan DeMarko is NOT a Publicist: God Almighty This is The Worst Porn PR of the Week

PornReporter — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 01:02:59 +0000

This post was originally scheduled to run in April 2024, but we decided that DeMarko was too poorly known and obviously awful at his job for the humor to ‘land’ properly. However, in light of his recent implosion, we are pleased to share this LOST post! — The Editors The Worst Porn PR of the […]

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The Grotesque Tale of Don Juan DeMarko, A Man Who Should Be Nowhere Near the Adult Industry

Sidney Falco — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:36:44 +0000

How a fanboy writer — the journalistic equivalent of a mope — decided to pass himself off as an adult industry publicist and producer. Setting aside the astoundingly poor quality of his work, the personal and professional behavior of adult industry hanger-on and self-styled “publicist” Jordan Potter a.k.a. Don Juan DeMarko has been the subject of […]

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