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p2pnet.net/,......Warner Bros teams with porn firm
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ireland
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27 Jun 2006 12:08 PM
Warner Bros teams with porn firm
p2p news / p2pnet: Warner Bros is using a Guba, company specializing in online pornography searches, to sell its DRM-loaded Warner movies and TV online.
"You may well know that some of the best porn gets circulated on newsgroups," says Supervert. But, "You need a news reader, and often you miss some of the best posts, or you end up with just fragments of a series." And, "That's where GUBA comes in. GUBA archives all the porn from newsgroups. Rather than pay for a news account, you pay for a GUBA account and bingo! You have access to all that porn. Good deal!"
Now, in an agreement more than a little reminiscent of the deal the MPAA made with BitTorrent, the former (and continuing?) bane of both Hollywood and the Big Four Organized Music cartel, Guba has, "agreed to start filtering copyright and obscene content and institute tougher security measures after talks with the Motion Picture Association of America," says the Associated Press.
BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen promised to take down links on his BitTorrent search site leading to Hollywood downloads and he and the MPAA were to, "work together and proactively identify ways to limit access to infringing material available via search engines like the one at BitTorrent.com and to promote constructive innovation in this area," said the MPAA, owned by the Big Six movies studios, in November, 2005.
