IP: Some comments from people who have lived in Germany on

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

From: manny.farber () citicorp com (Manny Farber)


Surprising, considering that a few of the normal, private senders
in Germany air porno movies on weekend nights.  These aren't
porno channels, just unscrambled channels that otherwise carry
normal commerical programming:  movies, TV series, news, 
game shows (of course one of the game shows is Tutti Frutti ...).


Manny




From: Brad Dolan <bdolan () use usit net>


There's something weird about this alleged German-induced CompuServe 
smut-hunt.


When one lives in the Netherlands, one is never far from Germany (and the 
Dutch know it!)  When my family and I lived in Arnhem a few years back, we 
were able to get a German TV station.   Weekends, the German station ran 
medium-hard-core porn flicks. They were typically French and Italian 
movies, with the presumably inane dialogue dubbed over in German.  
We found them hilarious. 


Based on my sampling, *most* of the newsgroups CompuServe has dropped are 
no more risque' than the German movies.  So the reported German concerns 
don't make sense to me.


Brad Dolan