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Re: [FYI] Aiming at Pornography to Hit Music Piracy



On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:47:05AM +0200, Axel H Horns wrote:
> 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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Ja, und wenn man den Artikel liest, dann stellt der Verfasser
zudem klar, wieviel KiPo in Tauschbörsen (fast nichts) und wieviel
im Web oder in "Chatrooms" gesichtet wird (das allermeiste).

Klingt seriös - der Artikel, nicht die Medienindustrie ;-)

VB.
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