RIAA Sues Usenet.com

Several readers pointed us to Torrentfreak's coverage of the RIAA's latest move: the major record labels have launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against Usenet.com. The complaint, filed in the federal District Court in New York, accuses Usenet.com of providing access to millions of copyright-infringing files and slams it for touting its service as a "haven for those seeking pirated content." Usenet.com has been refusing the labels' requests to block access to alleged "copyright infringing groups."

Comments

Ahh crap

[Barny]

Guess IRC and finally Gopher will be up next :/

Re:Ahh crap

[HTH NE1]

Guess IRC and finally Gopher will be up next :/ Jasper: [whispering] Are they talking about the bordello?
Abe: No! The burlesque house. So just keep your mouth shut.

Re:Ahh crap

[MightyMartian]

Took 'em years to get around to Usenet, though. Why? Perhaps they've only just heard about it?

It was me, I tell ya! That's right, Sammy, it was me. I was tired, ya see, tired of being your pirate pimp! So they's come it to me, see, these guys in a big Limo, see, and they tell's me, they says "Now look here, Thumbs, we knows you've got the goods on this Usenet gag. Spill the guts and we'll forget all about you selling Chinese Madonna CDs down by the docks."

Re:Ahh crap

[Truesilver]

I'm calling the Department of Redundancy Department (AKA As the DRD Department)

I read it for the articles

[Anonymous Coward]

Pay no attention to those alt.binaries. subscriptions.

Re:I read it for the articles

[nogginthenog]

Those groups are useless anyway. Everyone knows Usenet is a 7-bit system that doesn't support binaries...

Think of the pigeons!

[SirJorgelOfBorgel]

I guess pigeons will be next. Woe is ye, oh little beasties of high capacity and ludicrous latency!

Re:Think of the pigeons!

[n dot l]

LOL. I'd love to see this one hit the courts: "RIAA vs RFC 1149".

Re:Think of the pigeons!

[PrescriptionWarning]

Instead of pidgeons, how about swallows? what is the air velocity and weight capacity ratio of an unladen swallow again?

Re:Think of the pigeons!

[thrillseeker]

I had a two year long download once

Barium enema, eh?

What's next?

[noidentity]

RIAA sues HTTP.com, RIAA sues USB 2.0, RIAA sues self?

Re:What's next?

[MrNemesis]

RIAA sues self?

Recursive Indictment Aggregating Association?

Misread - RIAA USES Usenet

[SpeedyDX]

I misread the title as "RIAA Uses Usenet.com".

Wow, what a difference two letters make, huh?

Re:Misread - RIAA USES Usenet

[LoonyMike]

Did you just say that RIAA uses some sort of suenet?

Re:Misread - RIAA USES Usenet

[Stormx2]

I misread the title as "RIAA Uses Usenet.com".

Wow, what a difference two letters make, huh?

Have you also noticed that some things are green... and that some aren't? The excitement never ends.

Re:Misread - RIAA USES Usenet

[jcuervo]

[ Sue now ]
[ Add to wishlist ]

Re:Misread - RIAA USES Usenet

[davecarlotub]

(25 points to whoever catches that reference...)
I'm assuming you didn't mean gamecube.

next up

[User 956]

The complaint, filed in the federal District Court in New York, accuses Usenet.com of providing access to millions of copyright-infringing files

Next up, the RIAA sues Nike, for their involvement in a "massive, global-scale sneaker net"

I warned you people!!

[commodoresloat]

See what happens when you talk about Usenet?

Re:I warned you people!!

[Xemu]

When someone discusses Usenet, inevitably, someone (me! me!) will point out that what the RIAA is doing is very similar to what Hitler and the Nazis were wishing for.

Hitler considered it appropriate for the state to adopt a view of what is a life worth living (ein lebenswertig Leben) and cast this ideal in aesthetic/ethical, or quasi-biological terms, and, he gave the state the means to the implementation of this ideal. The RIAA is, like Hitler, telling us how life should be lived and paints this ideal in ethical terms and they want to have the means to implement this ideal.

There. Did it. Happy now?

Re:I warned you people!!

[Mean Variance]

Hitler considered it appropriate for the state to adopt a view of what is a life worth living (ein lebenswertig Leben) and cast this ideal in aesthetic/ethical, or quasi-biological terms, and, he gave the state the means to the implementation of this ideal. The RIAA is, like Hitler, telling us how life should be lived and paints this ideal in ethical terms and they want to have the means to implement this ideal. There. Did it. Happy now?

Godwin's Law has been triggered. Stop the thread.

Re:I warned you people!!

[CodeBuster]

The first rule of Usenet is you do not talk about Usenet...The second rule of Usenet is you DO NOT talk about Usenet...if this is your first time on Usenet then you have to upload.

Does not compute.

[IcebergSlim]

WTF? Usenet predates the WWW and is essentially just a protocol; they might as well sue "email" as well.

Re:Two very silly companies

[BosstonesOwn]

Well back to stealing porno mags from the old mans stash.

God I feel bad for ripping off my 80 year old dad's playboys from the 70's ! Oh wow never knew there could be that much hair down there !

Re:Maybe you should have done a FUCKING search of

[Barny]

Hrmm, angry you are...

I sense the AOL is strong in this one, yes?

First rule of Usenet

[gmezero]

USENET FAQ

Posted: 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970
Version 0.0.1

Authro: Kibble
Group: Alt.First.Post

The first rule of Usenet is you don't talk about Usenet

Re:First rule of Usenet

[Obfuscant]

You misspelled kibo.

Re:First rule of Usenet

[meringuoid]

You misspelled kibo.

As is traditional, although his grep patterns are atrociously complex and match most common variations on the Name that must not be spelt out.

(At one time, I hear people even avoided discussion of skiboots, for fear of invoking He Who Greps from the depths of the newsfeed...)

Re:Bollocks. Of course it is!

[Tumbleweed]

*horrors*

Let's hope they don't go after web.com and ftp.com next!

Re:GG RIAA

[JudgeFurious]

Does this mean that September is finally going to end?

I'm waiting for them to sue localhost

[r_jensen11]

16,548,583 songs available? And I can download them at blazing fast speeds? Those bastards are going to fear our wrath!

Re:Ahh crap-DISMANTLE ONE SERVER AT A TIME

[cHiphead]

Thats when you call in us IT "Consultants." If we can't dazzle them with brilliance, we can baffle them with bullshit. ;)

Cheers.

Re:Ahh crap-DISMANTLE ONE SERVER AT A TIME

[Anonymous Coward]

Cochran
        Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, Chef's attorney would certainly want you to believe that his client wrote "Stinky Britches" ten years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Gerald Broflovski
        Damn it!
Chef
        What?
Gerald
        He's using the Chewbacca Defense!
Cochran
        Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.