Comments on: MPAA launches massive attack

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:24:28 +0000

How can you sue a newsgroup? They are basically just a fancy version of a mailing list whose contents is distributed across all of the NNTP servers that exist on the internet. No one really owns them or has total control over them. Individual NNTP server operators can selectively certain groups and ‘cancel’ messages can be sent to try and remove individual messages.

Clearly this is another case of the MPAA not understanding the architecture of the internet or the technology used to implement it.

–TurboGeek

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:38:17 +0000

If torrent sites are hosted in a free country (ie. Not AmeriKa) there’s a good chance they could tell the labels to go screw themselves…

Just like Pirate Bay tells ‘em.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:37:51 +0000

newsservers dont usually keep logs (so i hope)

I wonder why they dont target newzbin? Isnt that the biggest usenet undexing site?