Penthouse.com shuts down major Usenet porn-pirate

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Nudie Aficionado Shot Down by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)

3:00 a.m. May. 2, 2000 PDT Stopping sex-obsessed pornhounds from swapping their favorite photos on Usenet might seem like a Sisyphian task, but Penthouse.com is willing to try.

Company officials said late Monday that they inked a settlement agreement with one particularly flagrant copyright violator who had amassed a collection of thousands of Penthouse images and bulk-uploaded them by the score.

"This guy had 20,000 images cataloged. He could put them up quicker than we could. I considered hiring him since he knew the site so well," said Gerard van der Leun, vice president of Internet services at General Media, which publishes Penthouse.

Instead, the website sued its photo-crazed nemesis, who uses the email address Muad`Dib@dune.com. Last month police raided Muad`Dib's home and seized his computers.

-- Observer (lots@to.observe), May 07, 2000

Answers

Did we ever decide whether or not pornography is evil?

-- Question Man (Qman@endless.questions), May 07, 2000.

Question man,

The issue is still being met--

PORN EVIL?

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), May 07, 2000.


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