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Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:11:31 -0500
On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 11:47:24 +1300, Simon Lyall <simon.lyall () ihug co nz> said:
I am really surprised that the RIAA and similar groups havn't "gone after" usenet to any great degree yet. I can't really see how binaries newsgroups different in any great extent (from the copyright angle) from your random p2p network. Once a few lawsuits are issued (does the ISC count as a distributor?) against the dozen or so top news providers things could be quite interesting.
At least in the US, the RIAA couldn't bring much of a suit against the ISP, for the same reason they don't usually bring suits against the ISPs in the p2p side of things. 17 USC 512 protects the ISP from behavior on the part of their users *if* the ISP is cooperative in dealing with the problem when notified of infringing material. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/512.html We see a fair number of form-letter complaints from the RIAA regarding p2p and other file-sharing by our users. Every once in a great while we see a complaint about netnews and our standard reply is usually "Hmm.. it was in an alt.* newsgroup? It's been over 48 hours? It's been over-written already..." -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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- Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 17)
- Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth Eliot Lear (Feb 17)
- Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth Simon Lyall (Feb 03)
- Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 04)
- Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth James Fidell (Feb 03)
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