Valleywag finds a way to get Microsoft, Cisco and porn in the same headline

By Jim Duffy on Fri, 01/25/08 - 6:11pm.

Under the headline "Microsoft, Cisco, and Lionsgate are pornographers", the hacks at Valleywag write that CinemaNow, the movie-download service backed by the three partners is looking to porn to help it survive against stiff competition from Apple, Netflix and Amazon. Although CinemaNow provides downloads from media giants such as The Sundance Channel, Fox and ABC News, movies from purveyors such as Vivid and Hustler present "a big piece of the pie," CinemaNow marketing director Lawrence Novitch told Valleywag.

Good for Valleywag for suggesting Cisco is a pornographer. Valleywag must have an eye for this kind of thing. It did bring us the story of a misprint of a customer service number on a Linksys box that turned out to be the number for a sex-talk chat line.

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