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MPAA Ignores Usenet, Goes After Bittorrent
mjeppsen writes "The Motion Picture Association of America is turning a blind eye towards movie piracy on Usenet, going after torrent link sites instead. PC Magazine says it is because the studios are in bed with GUBA, who is also shilling downloadable movies for the MPAA at a premium price."
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You do not talk about Usenet.
because I was starting to get the impression they were a little too focused on all the great music they were putting out lately.
Because if they *had* sued this "Guba" thing, you idiots would be congratulating them for their meticulous fairness and consistency and expressing relief that they hadn't "lost the moral high ground" by failing to take legal action against someone...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
You do not talk about Usenet.
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PC Magazine says it is because the studios are in bed with GUBA
GUBA!!! You said I was the only one...
WTF man? Didn't you see the first two rules of Usenet above.
Using MPAA and credible in the same sentence? You've been spending too much time in alt.idealism...
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...if this is your first time on Usenet, YOU will upload pr0n
I went and looked for this "Usenet" of which the article speaks. And I found it.
While in my extensive research, I found no MPAA content.
Perhaps I was sidetracked by all the boobies.
The first rule of Slashdot is that we don't talk about Usenet.
And it's quite possible someone here may give you a Chinese burn for mentioning NNTP.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
4. If you must talk about Usenet, call it Google Groups.