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People have needs.
There are those who attempt to make money out of satisfying those needs. And there are those who attempt to make money out of offering to hide people's embarrassment at having those needs in the first place.
Currently, certain porn producers -- normally rather nice people -- are being accused of the latter ruse.
Allegations are being laid that these porn producers are involved in shaking down alleged illegal downloaders, who may not be illegal downloaders at all.
According to Wired, the scheme is blessedly direct. Porn producers locate the IP addresses of those they believe have downloaded moans and groans illegally.
They then go to court, demanding to know the names of these miscreants. Judges, who would never themselves be implicated in such heinous activity as watching porn, force ISPs to hand over the requested information. Then the porn producers offer to settle with the downloaders.
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