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Harlan Ellison Can Sue AOL Under DMCA

Posted by timothy on from the one-man-not-to-have-against-you dept.

mbstone writes "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that sci-fi author Harlan Ellison can go ahead with his DMCA lawsuit against AOL. Seems somebody posted some Ellison stories to Usenet, AOL made 'em available, Ellison complained, and AOL blew him off."

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  1. Re:Compliments to whoever wrote the document! by lambent · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ah, my friend, you forget the fact that USENET is indeed made up up many different distributed peers.

    From the servers' points of view, it is P2P. That's why your experience on any one server my be drastically different than another.

    As for file sharing .... go check out the alt.* hierarchy.

  2. Re:Compliments to whoever wrote the document! by clonebarkins · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the servers' points of view, it is P2P.

    While it is undoubtedly P2P...

    As for file sharing .... go check out the alt.* hierarchy.

    ...just because people can share files on it, it's not a "filesharing system". People can share files via the World Wide Web, but it's not considered a "filesharing system". Calling USENET a "P2P filesharing system" is limiting at best and gives a potentially pejorative connotation.

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