In a spookily timed touché to all the gloom-and-doom prophecies hitting the news wires this week that the interweb is killing the adult industry's main source of revenue from DVD sales, Vivid announced this week that it will (up)skirt its usual distribution channels and release the upcoming "My Ex-Girlfriend", starring former Penthouse Pet and recently minted Vivid girl Brea Lynn, exclusively via Video On Demand instead of on its usual shiny plastic disk thingies early next month. (In mainstream entertainment, movies that are released direct to DVD are usually seen as a liability, but in Porn Valley now the direct-to-VOD thing is apparently a feature.) The good news is that we won't have to wait as long to see Brea in action as we would if we had to wait for the screener to arrive in our mailbox. The bad news is that if it turns out to be as bad as "Kim Kardashian Superstar" (unlikely, but still), we'll be denied the satisfaction of turning our DVD into a decorative candleholder or chcuking it under the next street cleaning vehicle that passes our living room.

· "Vivid Releases First Direct-to-VOD Adult Movie" (avn.com)
· "Vivid's Next Move: VOD" (xfanz.com)
· Vivid Superstore (vividsuperstore.com)
· Thumbnail: Brea Lynn (galleries @ Daily Niner and Bad Girls Blog, to help tide you over until July 2)

Previously: Laughing (With) Vivid Girls, Winkytiki's "Man's Ruin": Vivid Alt Contributes To Our Collective Downfall, DVD: Tristan Taormino's "Expert Guide To Anal Sex", DVD Review: Everything You Wanted To Know About "Kim Kardashian, Superstar" But Were Afraid To Watch, Breaking: Debbie Still Doing Dallas

In a story pubished after our Wet Spots deadline last Friday, the porn-obsessed savvy New York Times examined the business end of the adult industry—which oddly enough, is discussed in the same bloodless prose you might find in a story about airline bankruptcies or the real estate market. As you know, adult entertainment is the largest industry in the universe and it's in deep trouble these days ... and the internet, which has been the biggest boon for porn since the VCR, is soon going to destroy it completely. The Times took a crack at solving that riddle, and while the piece is filled with a lot of the same tidbits we've been hearing for the last several months—DVD sales are down, too many titles being released, amateurs taking over, "low barriers to entry," etc.—they at least take problem seriously and actually reached out to some of the players in the game to get their perspective. (Plus, they added this pretty graph.) Maybe we shouldn't be surprised anymore that the country's most influential paper can talk about porn like it's any other business, but since a lot of outfits still panic at the mere suggestion of boobies, we still do a double take when it's happens. That liberal media bias is finally doing something right.

· For Pornographers, Internet's Virtues Turn to Vices (nytimes.com)

Previously: Leonard Nimoy's Nude Mission, Deep Inside Kink Dot Com: Smut With A Smile, The New York Times' New "Zoo" Review, NY Times: True.com's False Advertising?, The Not-So-Pretty Side of Hi-Def Porn, Gray Ladies: The New York Times Does De'Bella