Dick Cheney, pornographer?
For Gerard Van der Leun, it was an unusual meeting. Mr. Van der Leun, vice president for Internet ventures at the General Media Corporation, was approached last year by Enron, at the time an energy-trading company little known outside the financial pages. The Enron visitors proposed an agreement to provide video on demand to consumers through a high- speed connection, using programming from General Media. Mr. Van der Leun said he was surprised, since Enron, a company in conservative Texas, did not seem a likely partner with General Media, which owns Penthouse magazine. Mainstream companies like Enron, he said, are generally wary of teaming with players in the sex-video market: "If someone goes to porn," he said, "they're desperate."
