Usenet: The Next Target in the War on Piracy
Written by Ernesto on August 19, 2007The first rule of Usenet is, you don’t talk about Usenet. This rule kept Usenet providers and users out of sight from anti-piracy organizations for years, but this is about to change.
Usenet is catching up with BitTorrent in terms of popularity, partly because it is considered to be safer. However, this increased popularity also has a dark side to it, as anti-piracy organizations start monitoring newsgroups.
Tim Kuik, managing director of BREIN - the Dutch branch of the MPAA - told the Dutch news site Webwereld that the increased attention from computer magazines over the past year lowered the nerd-factor of the Usenet. Because of this it’s now become one of the main targets of anti-piracy outfits.
Kuik further said that BREIN made a blacklist of Usenet providers who structurally infringe copyright. Their plan is to urge these providers to stop their services and compensate the content owners for their losses. Some might argue that Kuik’s words are yet another loose threat to make it seem like no pirate is safe, but there is some truth in his statements.
TorrentFreak talked to an insider, who works closely with anti-piracy organizations like the MPAA and RIAA, and he also noticed that the Usenet has been getting more attention lately. “BitTorrent is still enemy number one, but there is a significant growth in Usenet monitoring”, he said. Some Usenet providers now use BitTorrent sites to advertise their services and according to our source, this is another big reason why it caught the attention of anti-piracy outfits.
The people in charge at most anti-piracy organizations hardly know how to write an e-mail, if it’s not in the media, it’s not a target. If only people kept to rule number one this probably would have never happened.
The Usenet providers are not impressed by BREIN’s strong words though. Remco Habets from Usenet provider Usenet4u said in a response: “BREIN often makes statement that lead to nothing. One and a half year ago they also said that they were going to take on newsgroups, we’ll see”
To be continued…
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i get 3-4mbps on all my torrents, regularly, without paying, for usenet, or an isp. ;)
why pay for usenet when u have pvt trakers and gr8 bt sites/forums
They all make me laugh, so pathedic. They dont understand they’re running on a hamster wheel they call progress. P2p and piracy will never come to an end, I support it all the way!
[quote comment="150348"]i get 3-4mbps on all my torrents, regularly, without paying, for usenet, or an isp. ;)[/quote]
How the heck do you do that??? I say impossible. Unless you ONLY get the newest, freshest, most seeded torrents EVER. I got on usenet 1.6 yrs ago and will never go back to torrents (cept for a couple things)
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and why is there so much attention? because idiot “e-journalists” think they are brilliant, and create articles. I’m glad you have aspirations, but crap like this brings down the entire community, a piece at a time.
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Torrent sites don’t want you to talk about Usenet because they don’t want people to know about Usenet. They want to make a lot of money instead.
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Usenet sucks.
All the files i try to download are missing stuff. It only works if you pay extra for a better usenet server with higher completion/retention rate. And thats just it, isn’t the point of downloading files illegally that you DON’T have to pay for them??? Don’t the groups that release these files originally, do so FOR FREE??????? F*CK USENET!!!!! You can say what you want about torrents, but at least they are free. If im gonna pay, i might as well pay for the real thing.
Ya, “Go Torrents!” You are SPOT on! For example, I wanted to get all 10 seasons of a show on dvd, and instead of getting it off usenet in 5 days (while I stupidly paid $14/month for premium service), I , just like you, wanted the real thing instead for $200 when I ordered it and got it in the mail in the same amount of time I could have gotten it from newsgroups. I paid $200 but I saved $14 a month. Pretty smart, huh??
Yes, I could have used torrents, but I wanted to watch the shows before I died.
usenet is crap. like a video store where they tell you what to rent.
torrents are the only way to go.
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