LOS ANGELES – Adult search engine Boodio has partnered with an anti-piracy service to scrub known content-thieving sites from search results. According to Boodigo’s developers, PornGuardian’s scimitar will help protect both surfers and content owners from dangers lurking in the internet sea.

“PornGuardian has been very active in targeting sites with DMCA take-down notices, and over the years they have built an extensive list of sites that are repeat offenders or that appear to tolerate or even actively promote content piracy,” said Boodigo co-founder Colin Rowntree. “We don’t want these known ‘bad apples’ anywhere near the rest of our bunch, as it were.

“More often than not, the sites on the ‘bad list’ are ones infected with viruses and malware,” he added. “Yet another compelling reason to exclude them from Boodigo search results.”

PornGuardian co-founder Peter Phinney said his company will “help prevent piracy sites from appearing on this unique search engine,” adding that PornGuardian has proven itself an effective anti-piracy solution by helping remove nearly 10 million copyright infringements from the web.

“Piracy hurts everyone, often in subtle ways that go unmentioned,” Phinney said. “Not only do content theft and illegal distribution raise the cost of producing content, but they also circumvent all of the protections that legitimate sites work so diligently to put in place so that adult content is confined to an adult audience.”

While the public often holds adult entertainment companies responsible when minors are exposed to online porn, Phinney said “parents who complain that the internet is ‘full of pornography’ often are unaware that adult images appearing today online outside of adults-only, age-verified venues are almost exclusively stolen material.

“Our industry has worked very diligently for years to protect children from accessing content not intended for them,” Porn Guardian partner Dominic Ford said. “We have also worked diligently to insure that only consumers who opt in for our content are exposed to it. It’s the cyber criminals, often overseas and frequently supported by organized crime, who push sexual images on the wider audience, including children. Boodigo is a terrific new tool to help return distribution to the people who produce the content. We wholeheartedly support that effort.”

Boodigo also recently announced a partnership with the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection in an effort to block search terms often used to find child pornography. The search engine also blocks sites that are known or potential security threats and places a high premium on user privacy.