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Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
> 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.

if you're just downloading from usenet, you're not distributing, only the
one guy who posts it in the first place is distributing.  with torrent,
everyone is distributing.