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[FYI] Aiming at Pornography to Hit Music Piracy



http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/technology/07PORN.html

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Aiming at Pornography to Hit Music Piracy  

By SAUL HANSELL  

The recording industry, struggling to curb music piracy, is shining 
the spotlight on another demon lurking on the Internet: pornography.  

The industry is trying to enlist broader public support with a 
campaign intended to show that its nemesis ? the peer-to-peer 
networks for swapping files like KaZaA and Morpheus ? are used not 
only to trade songs but also pornographic images, including child 
pornography. Advertisement  

"As a guy in the record industry and as a parent, I am shocked that 
these services are being used to lure children to stuff that is 
really ugly," said Andrew Lack, the chief executive of Sony Music 
Entertainment.  

Others ask whether raising this issue is more than a little cynical 
from an industry that heavily promotes music with sexual and violent 
themes.  

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