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Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:

> is that still happening?  kinda thought most of that stuff had moved to
> torrents

In general, torrents are free, getting the stuff usenet will likely involve
using a pay-server.

But the torrents have a problem with "getting busted".

http://torrentfreak.com/

That place is mostly news articles about torrent sites, the legal issues and
so forth.

Usenet has somewhat a layer of protection since most NSP's (giganews,
astraweb and so forth) have some kind of DMCA in action. If someone from
like HBO complains about something, they'll take it down. But it's just
taken down from there. It still would exist elsewhere, so it's futile.

Actually the only usenet provider getting in major trouble was that NewsBin
I think, the ones that came out with NBZ's. Besides providing the NBZ files
for their customers, they also had an indexing system to locate films and
tvshows. That appears to cross the line as far as the studios are concerned.

The other major providers just supply the service, you are on your own to
figure things out. That does seem to offer a layer of protection, but how
long it'll last, no one can tell.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com