Comments on: Music Group Gets Court Injunction Against UseNeXT

By: Dipyrwerty

Dipyrwerty — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:31:06 +0000

@10

“Who pays for usenext anyway? There are better providers you know…noobs”

You are just like the other big headed wank turds out there on the internet. You were all noobs at one point but a bit of knowledge in that wanky brain of yours and you think you are MR Know-it-all.

By: me

me — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:26:36 +0000

Bert, you’re supposed to upload stuff to Usenet as well for the system to work. Stop being such a leech. ;-)

By: Bert Kwok

Bert Kwok — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:05:24 +0000

All you torrent users are uploading as you download. No matter how quickly you pull the completed file during your leaching practices you will have uploaded file chunks. In Germany there are scumbags recording your IP address and touting them around rights holders and lawyers ready to go on fishing expeditions in the UK.
Same for emule.
Nobody can chase me when i use the USENET, my uploads are by proxy server and I am not breaking any UK laws by downloading vast swathes of music, wares, movies.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:29:58 +0000

Let me point you to the fact that GEMA isnt a performing rights group only. This company of dark national-socialist origins (formerly known as STAGMA) also handles recording rights, broadcasting rights and whatever musical rights they can think of.

By: OnlineDegrees

OnlineDegrees — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:39:31 +0000

Check out online-degree-schools.net

I think it will help some of you.

By: wf

wf — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:17:11 +0000

[UseNeXT] advertised its fee-based access with unambiguous references to illegal exchange platforms. In particular it publicized the anonymity, speed and security of access to contents available on Usenet

As @Peer points out in #23, this is the crux of the issue isn’t it? Anonymity and security are not illegal. GEMA equates “anonymity” to “illegal exchange” but that’s like equating hand guns to bank robbery.

UseNeXT proudly provides anonymity just as Colt proudly provides guns. You can use it as a weapon for free speech or to rob a bank. UseNeXT is not responsible.

By: me

me — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:24:03 +0000

#41 Chris: “-Seeing as Usenet started in the early 80’s and initially hosted no files whatsoever I don’t know how you could think that. Usenet is still used for simply exchanging text messages – not that you’d know this of course.”

Sorry, but technically that’s inaccurate. Usenet, in its original inception was implemented with UUCP (unix-to-unix copy), a store-and-forward system. Knowing it first hand, as I was a UUCP node administrator in the 80ies.

UUCP was used to exchange *files*. UUCP e-mail was just an overlay on top of the basic infrastructure… which is no surprise because e-mail messages were just files too, just with those funny UUCP path addresses.

Later versions of Usenet (TCP based), switched from UUCP to the IP-based NNTP protocol. But there too, everything is a file (messages and binary stuff), and NNTP servers still store-and-forward those files back and forth among them and to the clients.

By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:54:16 +0000

@chris crocket

You had me on board right up until you starting wishing death upon others.

By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:21:46 +0000

Funny, I can distinctly remember several ISP adverts in the UK that all said things like, “Super-fast broadband, download music in seconds and movies in minutes!”

So why is UseNEXT in particular being targetted? Could it be their open defiance of the extortionists who cannot look after their own property?

By: Chris Crockert

Chris Crockert — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:40:16 +0000

“http://torrentfreak.com/bitlord-v2-released-now-supports-edonkey/someone needs to do this but make ad ware free”

Jesus some people are idiots – ever hear of Shareaza?

You should just stick to adware seeing as you’re apparently too dense to read about alternatives yourself or find teh best apps and such…