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Porn company offers to buy Napster 09:06 Friday 13th September 2002 Reuters
Private Media, based in Spain, offers £1.5m for the defunct file-trading service. Copyright protection is an issue in adult entertainment just as much as in Hollywood, it says Private Media Group, a publicly traded adult entertainment site based in Spain, on Thursday said it had made an offer to acquire the assets of defunct song-swapping site Napster.
In a statement issued from Barcelona, Private Media said that it had offered to acquire the Napster trademark and Napster.com Internet address for 1 million shares of Private Media common stock, valued at about $2.4m (£1.5m).
Private Media shares closed down 11 cents at $2.41 on the Nasdaq on Thursday.
A representative for Napster, which recently closed its doors and terminated all but a few of its remaining 42 staffers as it prepared to go into Chapter 7 liquidation, was not available for comment.
The revolutionary Internet song-swap service hailed by millions of music fans but damned by the powerful recording industry officially shut down earlier this month after a US bankruptcy court blocked its final sale to German media giant Bertelsmann.
Private Media chief executive Charles Prast said in the statement that copyright infringement is a major issue in the online adult entertainment industry as well as for the music and movie industry.
"Acquiring Napster is our way of entering the peer-to-peer marketplace for adult content in a closed environment," Prast said.
Private Media said it plans to use the Napster trademark to offer millions of adults worldwide the ability to swap adult-oriented content for free and to also gain access to "top quality" content at a reasonable price. Private Media claims to own the largest library of adult-oriented content in the world, with global copyrights to the content.
"Along with Hollywood and the recording industry, we have become increasingly concerned about the level of copyright infringement inherent in the free peer-to-peer file swapping services," Prast said.
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