pog
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join:2004-06-03
Kihei, HI
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Usenet has become a "service that facilitates file swapping".
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1) Look at the feed volumes, both message count and message size... it's abundantly clear that Usenet is used and abused for "file sharing".
2) Usenet providers can easily select which hierarchies of groups to carry. IOW, it's trivial for them to offer only text-based groups... and it would be far cheaper a service to run.
3) These days, it takes enterprise-class equipment and massive bandwidth to handle the volume of these binary groups. To me, that means providers that carry them don't just do so willy-nilly... it's an expensive, highly planned undertaking.
4) Not all ISP-run services market their Usenet feeds much, if at all... but there are many commercial services that use binary retention, completion, etc as major selling points.
Anyway, I think this current ruling makes it much easier for the "copyright cops" to tackle Usenet. I don't think it's a stretch for them to argue that Usenet providers are maintaining a "service that facilitates file swapping". |
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peter90036
join:2005-03-08 | in the top 10:
alt.binaries.erotic.senior-citizens
aww thats nasty |
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Acid9
join:2005-05-25
Fairton, NJ | reply to pog
There are those of us who will always be able to find and obtain what we want from the internet. The RIAA should only be concerned with the real pirates(Themsleves) |
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