http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Usenetcom-not-the-entire-Usenet-22638623 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:01:47 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:01:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Usenetcom-not-the-entire-Usenet-22640691 said by mp3sillegal :

Since when were mp3s illegal by default?Ever since they gamed the system and wiped out Napster. If you say you "file trade", "P2P", "Bittorrent", "Download Music" or "Collect MP3's" nowdays that all means "Pirate... Pirate.... Pirate...."

Half of the battle is controlling the language and changing the meaning of words.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Usenetcom-not-the-entire-Usenet-22640691 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:19:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Usenetcom-not-the-entire-Usenet-22639237 said by mp3sillegal :

Since when were mp3s illegal by default?It's not. That's why the RIAA when to court to get a ruling. To which Usenet.com made matters worse by destroying evidence, sending employees away, etc.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Usenetcom-not-the-entire-Usenet-22639237 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:46:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Usenetcom-not-the-entire-Usenet-22638725
Not to say that usenet.com wasn't doing something illegal, but that line of reasoning would be like saying that yahoo games must be doing something wrong when they advertise hundreds of free games.

If all usenet.com did was advertise free mp3 downloads that's almost meaningless on its own.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Usenetcom-not-the-entire-Usenet-22638725 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:49:26 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Usenetcom-not-the-entire-Usenet-22638633 said by Harddrive:

you just cant come out as a provider and actually say that like Usenet.com did.
Exactly. usenet has many legitimate uses, but once you start advertising piracy you no longer have that argument.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Usenetcom-not-the-entire-Usenet-22638633 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:20:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Usenetcom-not-the-entire-Usenet-22638623
they, as a company, actually advertised $19 per month for "access to millions of MP3 files". they also destroyed hard drives, provided false data to RIAA, and sent employees to Europe to keep them from testifying.
i will give a nod to Usenet.com for trying to protect its customers' info from the prying eyes of the RIAA. but when they advertised about the access to millions of MP3 files, they shot themselves in the foot.
there are lots of Usenet providers out there. and we all know that the binary groups of Usenet is what most people subscribe to a newsgroup provider for. you just cant come out as a provider and actually say that like Usenet.com did.
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