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."

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My RIAA Inspired Favorite Gift These Days

[Anonymous Coward]

Step one: Pick up a 500 gig external drive
Step two: Dump my 450 gig music collection to it in the background
Step three: Give the gift of music to friend or family member

Great for holidays and birthdays - or even the latest RIAA sues non-computer owning 95 years old deaf cripple story pops up and I'm feeling motivated.

Nothing but love RIAA!

First step: sue usenet.

[MrCawfee]

Next step: sue TCP/IP.

Re:Think of the pigeons!

[budgenator]

You beat me to it, of course the joke was probably lost on someone with that high of a UID

Re:Ahh crap

[lurker-11]

"my hello.c is so 1337!"

Ha, you think ur hello.c is leet?? wait to see my hello.asm! Wait until you see GNU Hello :)
http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/

Re:FIRST REPLY TO FIRST POST

[fractoid]

"A man can learn a lot about being a better lover through masturbation -- even if he has a regular partner," says Peter Sandor Gardos, Ph.D., a San Francisco clinical sexologist. You can also learn a great deal about what really gets your partner going by manually stimulating them. Set aside an evening to spend just playing with each other, learning what works and what doesn't and how to spot the signs of either (which can be difficult when you're just going for it), it's fun and can be very rewarding. ;)

As for the topic, I never understood why the RIAA took so long to realise that usenet was there. I guess this is the start of it...