No, I wasn't aware usenet.com was being sued.... http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/riaa-sues-usene.html
RIAA can cry all day long, usenet (the protocol) has been around too long to suddenly be labeled as having no greater purpose than facilitating copyright infringement not to mention good luck shutting it down. Sue Usenet.com as a facilitator encouraging piracy, good luck. About as much chance as suing an ISP for having a DMCA violator for a customer, which is not at all. Good news is even though uploaders have to expose the IP's to the public and they don't seem to be going away. ISP's care more about you serving up connections to 100's of people than maxing out your pipe using 20 connects to one server downloading. Brian Weeden wrote: > You do realize that Usenet got sued last week by the RIAA? Now the > lawsuit was against usenet.com and really can't touch the real usenet > but it's not like it will stay a haven forever. > > With the new DPI (deep packet inspection) hardware becoming more and > more popular multimedia downloads of any size are going to come under > increasing suspicion and the ISPs are going to start throttling > anything they don't like. > > Kinda sucks when you can't even use the connection you paid for. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
